Opus Dei

Steve Ogunde is a Kenyan engineer working in Liberia. He is helping in installing water and health facilities for the people affected by the Ebola crisis.

One Saturday morning, I went to deposit some cheques from my office to the bank. As is the case with cheques for most corporate bank accounts, the mandate for signing them is usually more than one person.

"The Way, that book, made a deep impression on my life. It’s one of the few books that I read from beginning to end without leaving it, except for the meals. I read it through, all through. And I wondered, who is this man who wrote this book...", says Fr. Paul Mimbi from Kenya.

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.

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.

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

After the excitement of the Beatification we were at the airport coming back to our country.

Dr. Susan Kibue is the Dean, Faculty of Architecture at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). She speaks about her call to Opus Dei and the sanctification of work.

The word 'saint' is remote, as remote as the afterlife and I don't always associate it with the here and now. I was to put up an exhibition, here-and-now about a saint, about Bishop Álvaro who was pronounced blessed on 27th September 2014.

Saints are men and women of flesh and bones!