Opus Dei

Paula Assen, from Australia, speaks about working alongside Dora del Hoyo and the example she gave of love for God and service to those around her in domestic tasks. "She had a lot of faith in the words of St. Josemaria that we have to create homes in a society that's so much against it. And we have to create a family atmosphere... because a lot of people are deprived of that these days."

The Punlaan School in Manila seeks to provide young women coming from low income groups with employment skills and Christian values that contribute to their economic, human and spiritual advancement.

On May 17, 1992, Pope John Paul II beatified Msgr. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, and Josephine Bakhita, a Daughter of Charity of Canossa. Here are excerpts from the Pope's homily at the beatification.

The Novena for the Sick, with many quotes from Saint Josemaria's writings, helps people to accept suffering with a Christian spirit, uniting it to Christ's passion and death, and asks God for a cure if such be his will.

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The homily given by the Pope at the canonization of the founder of Opus Dei, on October 6, 2002.

The Novena for the Family, with many quotes from Saint Josemaria's writings, seeks to help people grasp the greatness of Christian marriage and to sanctify family life, imitating the Holy Family.

God created us with the great gift of freedom. The natural law has the force of law as the voice and interpreter of the 'higher reason' of the divine Lawgiver.

Christ instituted the sacrament of Penance to offer us a new possibility of converting and recovering, after Baptism, the grace of justification

Priests receive from God the power to forgive sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.