Number of articles: 353

"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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We Started Calling Him “Father”

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

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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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In Namibia, with Saint Josemaría's Help

Vesna Ostoic lives in Namibia, Africa. She moved there from London because of her husband's work. In her situation, it is more difficult to receive Christian formation and do apostolate…but not impossible.

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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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"You’re in great form Granny"

"I am 82 years of age and have 8 children, 25 grandchildren and 2 great grand children. I have been a supernumerary for over 30 years and I give thanks to God every day for my own vocation to Opus Dei, and for that of two of my children." -- Kay Kiernan, Dublin, Ireland

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