Opus Dei

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

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.

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.

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’’).

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.

Scott Hahn, the popular Catholic author and speaker, has written a book about Opus Dei and its influence on his life.

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.

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

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

“They shall look on Him whom they have pierced” (Jn 19:37).