Opus Dei

Addressing the crowd after his general audience on February 15, Benedict XVI said that "large families are a witness to faith, and a source of wealth and hope for the entire country."

St Josemaria Escriva was overjoyed when, a few months after the foundation of the Work on October 2, 1928, God made him realize that Opus Dei was also for women.

Dora del Hoyo was the first numerary assistant. An interview with Javier Medina, who has written a brief biography entitled “A Lighted Lamp.”

On October 11, 2011, Bishop Javier Echevarría made public a document calling for those who knew the first numerary assistant in Opus Dei to make known any information relevant to opening her Cause of Canonization.

In a get-together in 1972, St. Josemaria speaks about how we can best serve the society in which we live.

"Charity and humility are closely united; and their mature fruit is unity." The Prelate focuses on the topic of unity in his letter this month.

"You are serving your fellow-men when you work for their spiritual good and their material good... Look for the good, seek life, and struggle."

Besides the Novena for Work that has resulted in numerous favors, two other novenas are now available in English: the Novena for the Sick and the Novena for the Family.

St. Josemaria speaks about the strength he found to bring Opus Dei forward back in the 1930's in the hospitals for the poor in Madrid.

"Spiritual life today is the same as in the 16th century, or the first century. Christians today have the same means as the first Christians, the ones who lived with Jesus, and as Twelve Apostles, who could still hear his breath as he died on the Cross... We've progressed in everything including business companies, but not in the interior life."