Number of articles: 177

Be Do Care 2024: livestream of the event

From 10 to 12 October 2024, São Paulo, Brazil, is hosting BeDoCare 2024, focusing on the legacy for future generations. Key conferences are being livestreamed (in Spanish and Portuguese) and will be available on YouTube.

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Ten Years of Volunteering in Puente Vallecas under Blessed Álvaro's Patronage

This social initiative, born around the beatification of Álvaro del Portillo, has involved the help of 3,500 volunteers and served 22,500 meals. But what really matter are the people behind the numbers. Each of them has a story of suffering and hardship.

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Common Works and Auxiliary Societies of Opus Dei: What were they, and why did they cease to exist?

From the foundational years, St. Josemaría said that Opus Dei would have personal and collective ways of communicating the Christian faith and the spirit of the Work. This article describes the evolution of its collective apostolate.

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Educational and social initiatives which receive assistance from the Opus Dei Prelature

This article gives an overview of the educational and social initiatives which have formational and spiritual assistance agreements with Opus Dei. The data was compiled from public information about these initiatives and was updated in June 2024.

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Teaching Children to Adore Jesus in the Eucharist

This initiative began in Vigo (Galicia, Spain) to help little children approach Eucharistic adoration in order to pray and form a relationship with God from a young age. Little by little, it spread to other parishes in the city.

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Young People Increasingly Interested in Spirituality

An international research group presented their findings on youth, values, and religion in Rome last month. The study is being carried out by the “Footprints” research group from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome) and seven other universities around the world.

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Pause: A Digital Platform for Families

"Stop and think about your family," is the tagline for a new digital platform from IFFD (International Federation for Family Development) with content on education and family life.

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"If we didn't do our small bit..."

An elementary school teacher and her former students reach out to the less fortunate in Antique province, central Philippines.

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The Pope to UNIV: "We contemplate Christ crucified"

At the end of his catechesis on the virtue of patience, Pope Francis greeted the young people at UNIV, who came to Rome for Holy Week.

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"They need someone willing to sit beside them"

Jennifer, Francine, and Princess talk about their experience visiting the Philippine National School for the Blind in Pasay City. They went with a group of 40 women from Linang Center and Punlaan School (Manila, Philippines).

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