Opus Dei

Video. (Rome Reports). Striving, forgiveness, prayer and dedication are the ingredients that Pope Francis offers to strengthen family life. His personal experience as well as meeting thousands of people have made the Pope an expert on the family. His advice, simple yet direct, can help in day-to-day life. There is no doubt that his advice to married couples has spread around the world.

A new documentary, in Spanish with English subtitles, about social initiatives inspired by Blessed Alvaro in Latin America.

Bishop Dominc Kimengich of Lodwar was present at Kianda School, Nairobi recently to receive a cheque for 200,000 kshs. The students have been collecting for the past year and handed it over in October 2014.

In his homily at morning Mass on November 13, Pope Francis said that the Kingdom of God is growing silently, in the hidden holiness of families who work and pray and suffer, offering to God their small daily crosses.

Dr. Hiram Muriuki, an MBA student in Strathmore Business School, has volunteered to go to West Africa to help contain the Ebola epidemic. Service to one's neighbour and society is one of the values Strathmore University tries to instill on its students. Dr. Muriuki is certainly giving himself without counting the cost.

On November 8 in Rome, the Prelate of Opus Dei conferred diaconal ordination on 32 faithful of the Prelature. In his homily he urged them to be "untiring in self-giving, vigilant in prayer, warm and welcoming in service."

During his brief trip to Russia, Bishop Javier Echevarría went to the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan in Moscow's Red Square to pray before the well-known icon.

My father, who is quite elderly, fell sick of malaria and pneumonia just a week before I needed to travel to Madrid to witness the Beatification ceremony of don Alvaro

In Moscow's Cathedral, Bishop Javier Echevarría and the Archbishop of Moscow, Paul Pezzi, celebrated a Thanksgiving Mass for the beatification of Alvaro del Portillo.

On Saturday November 8, Bishop Javier Echevarría will ordain 32 new deacons, in St. Eugene's Basilica in Rome.