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Happy Birthday, Pope Benedict

A message from Bishop Javier Echevarría on the 80th birthday of Pope Benedict XVI. The Prelate thanks the Holy Father for "helping us to appreciate the beauty of the Christian life."

From the Prelate

Letter from the Prelate (April 2007)

A letter on Holy Week and the anniversary of the Pope's election, from Bishop Javier Echevarría to the faithful of the Prelature of Opus Dei.

UNIV 2007

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE. St Peter's Square. Wednesday, 4 April 2007. And some UNIV photographs.

Recent News

Kenya: Training of trainers

In Kenya, university students are trained so that they in turn can train rural women who lack business skills, to engage in income-generating activities, to start and run their own micro businesses.

Anniversary Mass for Bishop Alvaro del Portillo

A homily given by Opus Dei's Prelate during a Mass celebrated in Rome on the anniversay of the death of St. Josemaria's first succesor. In the homily Bishop Echevarría speaks about the family and about divine filiation.

Recent News

New Papal Document concerning the Eucharist

Pope Benedict XVI has released an Apostolic Exhortation about the Eucharist entitled "Sacramentum Caritatis". In the Exhortation he states that the Body and Blood of Christ are "the root of every form of holiness." Read the document here.

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"You party so much yet you don't neglect your religion"

Ekene Ogbechie is a pharmacist by profession, and a former singer in a band. Currently a student on the MBA Programme at Manchester Business School (United Kingdom), she is a Supernumerary member of Opus Dei.

EWTN interview with Bishop Javier Echevarría

Interview (in Spanish) with the Prelate of Opus Dei, offered here courtesy of EWTN.

Recent News

Conference in Rome for 25th anniversary of the Personal Prelature

Cardinal Ruini, the Vicar of the diocese of Rome, and Bishop Javier Echevarria, Opus Dei's Prelate, were among the speakers. The conference was held at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (VIDEO: 2’37’’).

Letter from the Prelate (March 2007)

A letter on Lent from Bishop Javier Echevarría to the faithful of the Prelature of Opus Dei.