Memories of Bishop Javier Echevarría
Nicola Waite, a member of Opus Dei's Central Advisory in Rome, shares some memories of her time working with Bishop Javier Echevarria. "You could see as he talked that he was in constant conversation with God – you felt like he was talking to God, and encouraged you to do the same. And as somebody who was new to this whole world of the Catholic faith, that was very attractive. It was something that I felt...I want that!"
His Mercy Endures Forever: At the Beginning of the Jubilee Year
A new series of articles on the place of mercy in the Gospel and the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
"Just Start. Ways to help people"
The eleven videos in this series on the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, offered each month during the Jubilee Year of Mercy, can now be accessed on a single page.
Saxum Multimedia Facility
A brief video showing some of the features of the soon-to-open Saxum Visitor Center in the Holy Land.
What seemed difficult was not only possible...
A few months ago the medical division of Social Security called me to tell me that I was no longer entitled to health insurance and prescription drug coverage. This was terrible news because I take a medication which would cost me about 300 euros every month. The following day I started trying to figure out how to solve this problem.
In Memory of Bishop Javier Echevarría
A selection of messages of condolence received since the death of Bishop Javier Echevarría on December 12, with a 20-minute video summary of the Mass celebrated for the repose of his soul on December 15 in Rome.
"Go and Do Likewise": the Law of God and Mercy
A new article in the series on mercy. We are asked to "shape our hearts in accord with the lines marked out by the Beatitudes, making a reality of the ideal Christ sets forth for us: 'to be merciful even as your Father is merciful.'"
"Dora, A Woman Coherent with Her Christian Life"
"Dora was always coherent with her Christian life. She lived the normal circumstances of each day with a generous self-giving and a cheerfulness that was evident," says Mons. Javier Echevarria, Prelate of Opus Dei.
Glimpses of Saint Josemaria's Preaching – 1972
A half-hour video with highlights from a get-together with Saint Josemaria on 26 November 1972, in the Brafa Sports School in Barcelona.
"Where there is a mother, there is tenderness"
"By her motherhood, Mary shows us that humility and tenderness are not virtues of the weak but of the strong." Homily of Pope Francis for the solemnity of Mary, Most Holy Mother of God.