Opus Dei

Everything started with a small program of solidarity in the school and now we are helping a big number of people in Togo and Kenya.

In this short guide you will find help to prepare yourself to receive the sacrament of Reconciliation fruitfully: it includes an explanation of the steps for going to Confession, some examinations of conscience and texts to meditate on the greatness of the forgiveness that God wants to give us.

Blessing Nina Emmanuel narrates her journey to the faith while in the university.

Strathmore University's Community Outreach Program (COP), under the Community Service Centre, this year hits its 20 year mark. A big year, worthy of celebration!

Last June 26 has perpetually remained engraved in my memory because I participated in several Masses in honour of St. Josemaría in Ghana, and it was the first time I would celebrate his feast outside Nigeria. The idea was made possible thanks to a conference on family medicine I attended a month earlier, in May, at Elmina, in Ghana’s Central Region.

Let us pray that the World Youth Day in Lisbon will help us young people to set out on the journey, witnessing to the Gospel with our own lives.

We share the self-narrated story of Collins a young lawyer, fresh out of Law School who, despite his inexperience and lack of means, could not hold himself back from helping people in need. The sight of someone in handcuffs, the cry of a mother whose only son was about to be jailed for a petty reason, innocent people who only needed a lawyer to speak for them… these were some of the sights that elicited empathy from Collins, and he decided to help, often without invitation.

During these days many masses were celebrated in honor of St Josemaria in Africa and in the whole world. From Kigali in Rwanda to Kampala, Mbarara in Uganda and Kisumu, Homabay, Kisii, Eldoret, Rongo, Kitengela, Ongata Rongai, Kitui, Mombasa in Kenya, and Dar es salam in Tanzania, and Pretoria and Johannesburg in South Africa, and Gaborone in Botswana.

Dr. Ignacio Martínez, a stomatologist, who lives in Oviedo and has his practice in Avilés, has been collaborating with Monkole Hospital in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, since August 2016. He usually stays in Kinshasa for a month, during his holiday leave, to do a social work that has been awarded by the Asturias Dentists Association.

On Saturday, 24 June 2023, a Mass to celebrate the feast of St. Josemaría Escriva, will be held in Erbil, Iraq. It will be said in Aramaic using the Chaldean liturgical rite.