Opus Dei

We offer 40 short excerpts from Benedict XVI’s messages for Lent since occupying the chair of Peter, with a link to his Lenten message for this year.

February 14th commemorates the start of Opus Dei's apostolic work with women in 1930 and the beginning of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross in 1943. With life stories from 3 women in Opus Dei.

Haseen S. Aswani, a Hindu, is a student of pharmacy and the dean of the Alsajara University Residence in Granada, Spain, a corporate work of Opus Dei for women

Lola Pardo Conde is from Valladolid, Spain. Through her brother, their family met Fr. Josemaria in the 1940s. She became a Supernumerary in 1964.

Bridget Bagshaw has just had her seventh child. She has been married for 11 years and takes care of her family on a full-time basis. Opus Dei provides her with the tools she needs to be a better mother, spouse and friend, especially by learning to build a strong relationship with God.

Abel Albino is a doctor and founder of CONIN (Cooperative for Infant Nutrition) in Argentina. He often remembers St. Josemaría’s words: “Two plus two is four, but two plus two plus God…”

Uniting our setbacks and sufferings to Christ's self-giving on the Cross is always fruitful, the Prelate reminds us in his letter this month.

VIDEO: an engineering grad student talks about discovering Catholicism and Opus Dei, what attracts him as a non-Christian to religion, and what he has learned living in an Opus Dei student residence.

A statement and documentation concerning false allegations that appear occasionally claiming that St. Josemaria was a ‘holocaust denier’, or in some degree sympathetic to Hitler.

Leire and her husband Robert planned to build “a bright and cheerful home,” an expression she learned from St. Josemaría. Their two daughters with Down syndrome have helped them to do so.