Opus Dei

The plane arriving from Rome touched down at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at 7:45 pm for Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz’s first visit to East Africa as Prelate of Opus Dei.

Joseph Hyginus, a Sri Lankan supernumerary living in Canada, talks about immigrating to find better opportunities for his family, and how he found his vocation along the way.

Kibondeni College in Kenya has been celebrating its 50th anniversary for the last 12 months with various events. Here are some of the highlights.

"Perhaps we could define prayer like this: a word that 'steals Christ’s heart' and enables us to live, from now on, close to Him."

CARF is a Foundation raising money for scholarships for priests and seminarians who study at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. Fr. Paschal Ochieng is one of its beneficiaries. In the last 28 years CARF has helped in the formation of 510 Kenyan priests and 18 Kenyan seminarians did their studies there before ordination.

For the 50th anniversary of his ordination as a priest on 13 December 1969, here is the Letter Pope Francis wrote to priests for the 160th anniversary of the death of the holy Curé of Ars, Saint John Vianney.

In his 11 December general audience, Pope Francis continued his catechesis on the Acts of the Apostles, speaking about the persecution Saint Paul underwent.

Pope Francis' Apostolic Letter "Admirabile signum" on the Nativity scene, with link to free audio version.

In mid-December 2019, the Prelate of Opus Dei, Mons. Fernando Ocariz, will be going to Kenya and Uganda for a pastoral trip. The last visit of a prelate of Opus Dei, Mons. Javier Echevarria then, was in 2006.

Every child who is marginalized, abused, abandoned, without schooling, or without medical care, is a cry that rises up to God.