“Be Students who Seek to Serve”
As part of a two-week pastoral visit to South America, the Prelate recently had a get-together with 7,000 people at the University of Piura (Peru), a corporate apostolate of Opus Dei. He spoke about family, the Pope and university studies.
Faith on the pages of a mystery novel.
Josefina Caprile from Argentina is a widow and the mother of eight children. Even so, she manages to write novels. She writes with a basic idea: books have to be interesting or no one will read them.
The donkey and young Josemaría
Rete 4, an Italian television station, recently aired an animated program on the early life of St. Josemaría Escrivá. This fragment shows how the young boy comes to understand the value of work by seeing a donkey hard at work (02'03'').
El prelado del Opus Dei en Canarias
Del 5 al 9 de febrero, mons. Javier Echevarría ha realizado un viaje pastoral de tres días a las islas Canarias en el que ha mantenido numerosos encuentros con familias, fieles de la Prelatura y cooperadores.
Viaje del Prelado a Kenia y Uganda
Mons. Javier Echevarría viajó recientemente a Kenia y Uganda. En estos países africanos mantuvo diversos encuentros con personas que participan en los medios de formación cristiana que ofrece el Opus Dei. Ofrecemos un relato de aquellos días.
Honoris Causa de Comunicación en la Universidad Pontificia de la Santa Cruz
Mons. Javier Echevarría, Prelado del Opus Dei y Gran Canciller de la Pontificia Universidad de la Santa Cruz ha concedido el doctorado “Honoris Causa” al Cardenal Camillo Ruini y al profesor Alfonso Nieto. La máxima distinción universitaria se les ha concedido por sus méritos en el mundo de la comunicación.
Mensaje del Prelado con motivo del Año Sacerdotal
Benedicto XVI ha convocado un año en el que se rezará de modo especial por los sacerdotes. Con ese motivo, iniciamos una nueva colección de vídeos sobre el don del sacerdocio. Introduce la serie Mons. Javier Echevarría (05’18’’)
Year for Priests: “Saying Yes to Christ”
Carlo de Marchi was ordained in 2008. His experience has shown him that people, especially youth, are in great need of the prayer and self-giving of priests (4:15’).
Letter from the Prelate (July 2010)
"Turning work into prayer," the Prelate tells us in his letter, is the heart of Opus Dei's message "This daily effort to conduct ourselves as contemplative women and men, in the most diverse circumstances of life, sets before us a high goal, as is sanctity."
"The saint of the ordinary"
A 7 minute video about the life of Saint Josemaría Escrivá, who spread the call to sanctity in daily life and was called the "saint of the ordinary" by John Paul II. "We have to be contemplative souls in the middle of the world, who strive to turn our work into prayer," he often said.