"The holiness that Our Lord demands of you is to be achieved by carrying out with love of God your work and your daily duties, and these will almost always consist of small realities.” Saint Josemaría
"The holiness that Our Lord demands of you is to be achieved by carrying out with love of God your work and your daily duties, and these will almost always consist of small realities.”
Ruth Pakaluk was an extraordinarily warm and talented woman. She entered Harvard University as a pro-choice atheist. After her conversion to Catholicism, she dedicated herself to raising her family and to pro-life activism. At age 33, Ruth was diagnosed with cancer. Shortly before dying peacefully at age 41, she wrote to a friend: "I have loved the life God gave me. There is no other life I would rather have lived.”
Cecilia was born into a Catholic family in Ontario, Canada. The faith she received in her childhood is, to some extent, from her great-grandfather (the English intellectual Malcolm Muggeridge) and his tireless search for truth. The legacy Malcolm and his wife Kitty left their family was this spirit of inquiry and dedication. In her vocation to Opus Dei as an assistant numerary, Cecilia seeks to make people loved and valued through her professional work and to bring them closer to God.
When visa issues scuttled three young women's plans to go from Kenya to Portugal for World Youth Day in 2023, they turned to Southeast Asia. Alexia, Yna, and Maryjoy tell their story.
"My husband and I had no idea that we were about to experience the best Christmas of our lives," says Pilar Caranti, a mother of six from Houston, Texas who regularly visits a high security prison with her husband.
Monick Tello is a Peruvian numerary who moved to Stockholm, Sweden seventeen years ago. She writes about her experience at World Youth Day in Lisbon this summer and how the Pope's invitation to acknowledge our roots inspired her.
This is the fifth of a series of interviews commemorating the 75th anniversary of Opus Dei coming to Ireland. In this episode, Ciara Mannion describes how she finds meaning everyday by loving others in and through her work. Ciara is a wife and mother of two living in Galway.
Miguel González is a 66-year-old coffee grower whose dedication and hard work have made the quality of his coffee world-famous.
Aníbal was educated at Valle Grande, an Opus Dei initiative aimed at providing young people in Peru with the skills needed for social and professional integration. In this video, he shares his story and explains how this educational center has helped him succeed.
They met friends who frequent centers of Opus Dei in Korea, and were attracted to the faith little by little. At the Easter Vigil in St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday night, they will be received into the Catholic Church. These are their stories.
Jorge Barroso was born in Barcelona 28 years ago. He studied classical philology. He lives in Jerusalem, a city he moved to three years ago to pursue a master's in ancient Greek. We asked him to talk about his experience of the current situation of armed conflict in the Holy Land.
Olamide Akinyede, a pharmacist and a basketball coach, talks about her passion for training students and how she combines sports and faith.
World Youth Day 2023 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1 to 6 August. Four young Chileans talk about how they're preparing for the event.
Álvaro Anguísola is a volunteer at the Diocese of Bilbao. When it was time for him to retire, a friend invited him to help out in his diocese with the economic and transparency areas. He agreed right away, and now he dedicates his days to collaborating with his local church in this way.
Malina learned to get along with Muslims, atheists and Christians in her own family. "My family is an example of the mix of cultures and religions that exist in my country, Malaysia," she says. Her father is an atheist, her mother is Catholic, and her sisters converted to Islam. She decided to be baptised at the age of 16. That was the beginning of a search that would eventually lead her to Opus Dei as an assistant numerary.
An interview with Fr. John Henry Hanson, O. Praem., author of the recently published book "Coached by Josemaría Escrivá: Lessons in Discipleship."
Óscar Migueles writes about the joy he discovered in friendship: "When you're involved in something good, you invite the people you care about."
Blessing Nina Emmanuel talks about journey to the faith, inspired by her family and the chaplain at her university.
Pau is a musician and a painter, and he has a very personal relationship with God. In this video, he explains how he turns everything into prayer and finds joy in all of it.
