Opus Dei

We celebrate the feast of the Queenship of Mary on August 22. These texts from the Magisterium, saints, and Christian poets can help us contemplate the crowning of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen of the universe.

August 22 is the feast of our Lady's Queenship: "And the Angels pay her homage as her subjects... and the patriarchs and the prophets and the Apostles... and all sinners and you and I."

August 21 is the feast of St. Pius X, the intercessor to whom St. Josemaria entrusted the Work's relation with the Holy See. In this excerpt, Miguel De Salis Amaral writes about St. Josemaria's lifelong devotion to this Pope.

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

Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz was in Cebu from 3 to 5 August, for the last part of his 12-day apostolic journey to the Philippines. From there he flew to Indonesia, and will continue on to Australia and New Zealand.

José is a graduate in Medicine in Puerto Rico who loves to surf. He recounted, in 2019, at the age of 26, an unexpected encounter at WYD in 2011 that changed his life and that of his future wife Michelle.

The faith our Lord expects of us "is not the confidence that things will always go well. It is the trust that, no matter how things are going, God will make use of them for my benefit, for the benefit of those around me and of the whole Church."

A homily by Saint Josemaria published in "Christ is Passing By," given on the feast of our Lady's Assumption into heaven, 15 August 1961. A new downloadable audio version of the homily is available.

On 15 August, the Church celebrates Christ taking his Mother up to Heaven, a dogma defined by Pope Pius XII in 1950.

The Prelate of Opus Dei writes about the August 8 Motu Proprio of Pope Francis regarding personal prelatures.