Opus Dei

Twenty students from Taiwan, Indonesia and Singapore spend their holidays serving orphans.

A short video montage of the recent pastoral visit of Bishop Javier Echevarría to Canada.

A short video montage of the recent pastoral visit of Bishop Javier Echevarría to the U.S.

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Some faithful of Opus Dei together with some Cooperators and others, some of whom are non-Christians carry out in each country educational, social and cultural projects which are aimed at providing service and formation. These include schools, hospitals, universities and centres of professional formation

The first arrivals were two: a layman, Jeremy White from U.K. and a priest, Fr. Jose Domingo Gabiola, from Spain. The founder, St. Josemaría Escrivá, had sent them to open this path of holiness in daily life among Nigerians.

By reading between the lines of an atheistic periodical in Soviet Russia when he was a teen, he made acquaintance with the Christian faith. Now he's a 33-year-old deacon slated to be ordained to the priesthood next June. Alexey Yandushev-Rumiantsev's dream is to help his country as a Catholic priest.

Bishop Javier Echevarría concluded his North American pastoral visit this week, telling 2500 members and friends of Opus Dei gathered in Houston that the sacraments are “a great help” for becoming holy “in the events of our ordinary life.”

Video clips of Saint Josemaría speaking about the founding of Opus Dei on October 2, 1928 (in Spanish).

At a gathering this past Sunday outside San Francisco, Bishop Javier Echevarría urged 1800 members and friends of Opus Dei to “get to know Christ” better.