Opus Dei

This being the Year of Mercy, I was especially keen to show mercy to these young colleagues of mine.

I asked her what was going on. She broke down but eventually told me the story.

Dora has been my role model of wanting to always do things well; first because they are to be offered to God and secondly as a service to others.

Eliana Palma, a Chilean grandmother, shares her ideas on the role of grandparents in families and society, and talks about how happy she was in the sixty years she spent with her husband, Tito.

Mariam, a young Muslim girl in Aleppo, Syria, had to flee with her family three years ago because of the war. She found refuge and a new family in Lebanon.

John Keefe helps moderate a series of courses called Family Enrichment, assisting parents to form happy families and couples of all ages to strengthen their marriages.

Jorge Rojas and Maria Esther Goldsack met at a university in Chile, and have been married for 41 years. They reflect on what's helped them to keep their marriage alive and fruitful, including in ways that have had a real social impact beyond their family home. A new video in the series "Marriage: a Divine Path on Earth."

Peter Bradshaw, a university student who lives in Warrane College in Sydney, Australia, recounts his experiences helping out in a home for the elderly and in a city shelter.

Olivia and Thimothée have seven children and live in a small village in France. They have welcomed a family of Iraqi Christians into their home: Bassam and Raghad, with their three children aged 9, 7 and 3 years old, who were forced to flee Karakoch in August.

For someone who has helped hundreds of hopeless young mothers, Teofasia Karimi is not one to sing her own praises. She hastily brushes away questions about her, choosing to instead concentrate on the myriad problems affecting girls and young mothers in Kilifi County.