Number of articles: 346

"I Try To Listen"

I am a midwife. For the past 16 years I’ve worked in a primary care center in a small town near Malaga, Spain.

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Eight Photos of Me, Except for One

Ana Belen, a young Andaluz woman, narrates her life and vocation as a numerary assistant through eight photographs.

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Life in a University Residence

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

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“I’d Rather Have the Kids!”

Agustín Cornejo is the manager of the agricultural school, Las Garzas, in Chile, and a Supernumerary of Opus Dei. The youngest of eleven siblings, orphaned when he was six, he talks about his life and work.

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Immersed in Fine Arts and God

Chris Afuba is an artist and lecturer at the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria. He is a Supernumerary of Opus Dei.

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An Image Engraved on my Soul

José Ramón Herrero tells us about an image that never fades from his memory--St Josemaria at the bedside of the dying, consoling them and talking to them about God.

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"Mommy, am I going to die?”

A small child’s sickness and pain are very difficult to understand. But Antek, a five year old Polish boy, discovered their meaning.

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Fatuma, a Muslim in Strathmore Business School

Fatuma Hirsi Mohamed is an MBA student at Strathmore Business School in Kenya. Currently she directs the National Media Group and is president of the Public Relations Society of Kenya. She has four children and plays golf.

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A sense of connection with a Personal God

Stephen Tsang, from Hong Kong, converted to Catholicism while living as a student at Netherhall residence in London.

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On the High Seas: From Zoroastrianism to Catholicism

Shahrookh Khambatta Damania tells the story of his conversion in which he crossed many seas, including those of the interior life.

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