Opus Dei

An account of the canonization Mass, the Mass of thanksgiving, the audience with the Pope, and the appearance by Romanian Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist.

An article from the November/December 2002 issue of Lay Witness magazine.

An article published in L'Osservatore Romano on the occasion of the canonization of St. Josemaría. The author is the executive director of Centro Tepeyac, a crisis pregnancy center for Latino women. She lives near Washington, D.C., with her husband and 12 children.

The entire square of St. Peters in Rome was filled with hundreds of thousands of happy people, of all races and colors, language, background. It as October 6, 2002, and they had all come to witnesses the proclamation of a new saint, Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei

John Myers, Archbishop of Newark, delivered the following homily at a Mass of Thanksgiving for the canonization of St. Josemaria at St. Mary Major in Rome.

Video clips of highlights of the canonization of Josemaría Escrivá.

The entire square of St. Peters in Rome was filled with hundreds of thousands of happy people, of all races and colors, language, background. It was October 6, 2002, and they had all come to witnesses the proclamation of a new saint, Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei.

The remains of the new saint have been returned now to Our Lady of Peace, the prelatic church of Opus Dei. St. Josemaría's casket was transferred on the afternoon of Thursday the 10th from the basilica of San Eugenio, after the final thanksgiving Mass celebrated by the prelate of the Opus Dei, Bishop Javier Echevarría.

An address by Pope John Paul II to pilgrims gathered for the canonization of St. Josemaría Escrivá on October 7, 2002.