Opus Dei

UNIV 2021, due to the pandemic, will take place online this year. In many countries around the world, activities are being organized to spend Holy Week and Easter at home, but with our hearts in Rome.

The ‘Trium Puerorum’ is a hymn of praise to God that the Church recommends praying after Holy Mass. The whole of nature is invited to join in this song, which was first sung by three young Jewish men in the Old Testament.

These reflections for each day of Holy Week can assist our prayer in the days leading up to the Resurrection.

On Tuesday March 30 at 7 pm and Saturday April 3 at 10 am in Rome (UTC +2), live images will be broadcast from the prelatic church of Our Lady of Peace in Rome, where the mortal remains of Saint Josemaría Escrivá repose.

A meditation by Fr Donncha Ó hAodha, Vicar of Opus Dei for Ireland, for the Feast of Palm Sunday (March 27, 2021)

On 19 March 2021, the 5th anniversary of the publication of the Apostolic Exhortation ‘Amoris Laetitia’ on the beauty and joy of family love, Pope Francis inaugurated the Amoris Laetitia Family Year, which will conclude on the 26th of June 2022 at the 10th World Meeting of Families in Rome.

A meditation by Fr Brian McCarthy, for the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25, 2021).

In his 24 March general audience, Pope Francis continued his catechesis on prayer, speaking about prayer in communion with Mary.

Alvaro del Portillo died on 23 March 1994. Here is an extract from a letter he wrote on 2 February 1985, at the beginning of Lent.

Ricardo is a professor of physics at the University of Minho in Portugal. In this interview he talks about the relationship between science and faith, the Big Bang theory, Galileo, and the recent Nobel Prize in physics.