Opus Dei

Many Catholics have the pious custom of praying a novena from 30 November to 8 December, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. As the novena begins, here are a selection of texts from the Magisterium, Fathers of the Church and saints.

Advent is the liturgical season before Christmas, in which the Church prepares to celebrate Christ's birth. This article responds to some common questions about the origin, meaning, and customs of Advent.

On 21 November, we celebrate the Presentation of Our Lady. According to Christian tradition, Joachim and Anne, the parents of Mary, offered their daughter to God in the Temple at Jerusalem when she was a young girl.

As the years and generations go by, the family of Opus Dei is called to be faithful to the gift that God gave the world on October 2nd, 1928, a charism “as old as the Gospel, and like the Gospel new.”

"It is only by knowing what God holds deep in his heart that we can learn to pray truly." A new article in the series on prayer.

A time-honored way to study and savor the word of God is lectio divina which constitutes a real and veritable spiritual journey marked out in stages.

A meditation (guided prayer) on the Feast of All Saints, which reminds us that our ultimate destiny is heaven and that we are all called to holiness.

The vocation of a numerary assistant is a specific calling to care for and strengthen family ties in Opus Dei.

A meditation (guided prayer) on the Rosary and its place in our lives.

When we take up the habit of spiritual reading, we are able to go deeper in the our knowledge of the faith.