Opus Dei

The text of Bishop Javier Echevarría’s remarks, drawn from his book, The Christian’s Journey through Life:

For St. Josemaría, one form of charity is “making life more agreeable for others.” A way to do that might be painting someone’s house if he can’t do it himself. This is what the Alazores University Association is doing in Málaga, Spain.

In 1970, in a private meeting in Mexico City, Msgr. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, an institution of the Catholic Church to which CRC’s spiritual and doctrinal orientation had been entrusted, encouraged Dr. Estanislao to expand CRC’s horizons beyond the Philippines and Southeast Asia...

The UCF Work Camp was recognized by the World Bank as “The Longest Running Youth Development Project in the Philippines” in the recently concluded Responsible Citizenship Fair of 2003. Since 1981, this project has helped some 45,000 families in rural areas and depressed communities throughout the country.

On his eighth visit to France, John Paul II has gone to Lourdes to inaugurate the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the Immaculate Conception.

James Burfitt comes from Sydney, Australia. A school teacher for nearly 20 years, he also writes film reviews in a magazine for families.

At the Angelus of July 18, the Pope said that a vacation is a good time to renew the interior life; “the most important thing in life is listening to the Word of God.”

In 1954, St. Josemaría prayed at the tomb of St. Nicholas in Bari, asking his intercession at a time of grave financial need. Fifty years later, the Prelate wanted to make a return visit to Bari.

A special year devoted to the Eucharist “is part of the pastoral plan to which I referred in my Apostolic Letter, "Novo Millennio Ineunte",” the Pope said on June 13 in St. Peter’s Square, “when I invited the faithful to ‘walk with Christ.’”