Opus Dei

“The knowledge that I’m a much-loved daughter of God, my “divine filiation”, and that everything that happens to me is either willed or permitted by God, gives me a wonderful feeling of security, a great peace.” Testimony of Virginia McGough, homemaker in Cheshire, Great Britain, married with five children between 5 and 13.

On September 3, thousands of young people listened to a recorded message from the Pope at a conference of Catholic Action in Loreto, Italy. Besides emphasizing the role young people must play in building a new Europe, the Holy Father declared that “a civilization of love cannot be established by separating the Gospel from culture.”

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

Thousands of people joined Bishop Echevarría on September 4 at the Marian shrine of Torreciudad in the Spanish Pyrenees. He spoke to them about the family as a divine gift.

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.

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.