Opus Dei

Thousands of people joined Bishop Echevarría on September 4 at the Marian shrine of Torreciudad in the Spanish Pyrenees. He spoke to them about the family as a divine gift.

The text of Bishop Javier Echevarría’s remarks, drawn from his book, The Christian’s Journey through Life:

For St. Josemaría, one form of charity is “making life more agreeable for others.” A way to do that might be painting someone’s house if he can’t do it himself. This is what the Alazores University Association is doing in Málaga, Spain.

On his eighth visit to France, John Paul II has gone to Lourdes to inaugurate the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the Immaculate Conception.

In 1954, St. Josemaría prayed at the tomb of St. Nicholas in Bari, asking his intercession at a time of grave financial need. Fifty years later, the Prelate wanted to make a return visit to Bari.

James Burfitt comes from Sydney, Australia. A school teacher for nearly 20 years, he also writes film reviews in a magazine for families.

At the Angelus of July 18, the Pope said that a vacation is a good time to renew the interior life; “the most important thing in life is listening to the Word of God.”

A special year devoted to the Eucharist “is part of the pastoral plan to which I referred in my Apostolic Letter, "Novo Millennio Ineunte",” the Pope said on June 13 in St. Peter’s Square, “when I invited the faithful to ‘walk with Christ.’”

Testimony of Petra Herold of Forchheim, Germany. She studied physics and mathematics, and is now married with four children.