Opus Dei

Second video in series dedicated to Year for Priests. Prof. Francisco Varo reminds us that priests have been present at the most important moments in our lives, making God present (04'30'').

"The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus”, the saintly Curé of Ars would often say.

Benedict XVI has convoked a year of special prayer for priests. With this in mind, we are beginning a new series of videos on the gift of the priesthood. Bishop Javier Echevarría introduces the series (05’18’’).

Scenes from the Prelate's ordination of thirty priests in Rome on May 23rd. Vídeo produced by the Beta Films Foundation (2'58'').

Opus Dei has been present in the Holy Land since 1993. Recently members and friends celebrated the 80th year of Opus Dei's founding with the Latin Patriarch. This video shows how the spirit of Opus Dei helps Christians and non-Christians to be sowers of peace in the homeland of our Lord (8'49'').

Marilyn and Jean-René Philibert are both cooperators of Opus Dei. Opus Dei has helped them to strenghten their faith, they say, by showing them how to integrate it into their daily lives.

In the presence of their eight living children, Cardinal Rouco said that the Alviras are "a twentieth-century example of the need to proclaim and bear witness to the evangelization of the family."

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.

Opus Dei was born in the Church and exists in the Church to serve the Church. In this year marking the 25th anniversary of the Work’s being erected as a personal prelature, we offer an article explaining the relevance of this event.

Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz is a theologian and is also the Vicar General of Opus Dei. This Zenit interview was held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of Opus Dei as a personal prelature.