Opus Dei

On Monday 3rd October, Scepter Publishers were pleased to launch the second translation of St. Josemaria's most popular book - The Way - into a local vernacular language: Kikuyu.

The Style Tribe is an initiative aimed at strengthening knowledge and skills in fashion in Kenya. They have organised The Style and Fashion Forum 2016 that will run from the 12th – 15th of October 2016. The Fashion Forum aims at creating awareness and developing skills in fashion, relevant to today’s woman and is offering four different seminars.

On October 8, addressing a worldwide Marian pilgrimage to Rome, Pope Francis stressed the importance of praying the Rosary, "a summary of the history of God's mercy."

On 2 October 2016, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Nichols, blessed a painting of Our Lady of Willesden to which had been added the figure of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo following his beatification in September 2014.

Since 1996 on an almost yearly basis, Bugala, an Opus Dei centre in Kampala, has organized work camps in different villages in Uganda. The camps usually fall in the summer months of July and August. This year, a group of Germans, Spaniards and Ugandans completed Phase 2 of St. Mary's Primary School.

The Prelate stresses the need for mercy when confronting the defects of others, and also our own.

Pope Francis' homily on October 2 at the church of the Immaculate in Baku, during his 3 day apostolic trip to Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Those who have died with a reputation for holiness can intercede for us before God. An online form can now be used to send news of any favors received.

Bernadette Agna writes from the Philippines about inviting her friends to visit a home for the elderly run by the Little Sisters of the Poor, and how they were enriched by this experience.

On 20 September in Assisi, Pope Francis joined 500 religious leaders to pray for the gift of peace: "Without syncretism or relativism, we have prayed side by side for peace and for one another."