Opus Dei

"Everything Counts" is a series exploring how assignments, deadlines, tiredness, and even AI tools can become a path to serve others, shape the world around us, and meet God in the everyday. This time: how to actually enjoy studying, and the motivation that makes it worth the effort.

Studying and working take up most of our lives, even on the days when we don't feel like it or the results don't show. "Everything Counts" is a new series exploring how assignments, deadlines, tiredness, and even AI tools can become a path to serve others, shape the world around us, and meet God in the everyday. First up: what it means to work like God works.

You don’t have to have it all figured out to take the leap. Nati Martínez talks about quitting her job to start Boilera, a workshop where people make their own shoes and how she learned to stop waiting for “someday” and start finding meaning in her life right now.

St. Josemaría compares faith to an athlete’s discipline: training, sacrifice, and a prize worth chasing. A short read on why comfort is the real opponent.

A student athlete opens up about the pressure to perform and how faith taught her that her worth isn’t determined by the scoreboard.

Generosity gives us magnanimous hearts, capable of holding more happiness and reaching out to more people. This article is part of a series on the virtues, inspired by St. Josemaría’s homily “Human Virtues.”

"To be of service, serve," Saint Josemaria wrote. What does that mean for Christians who want to make a difference in the world? How do we avoid the danger of perfectionism?

Tony works in recruitment for schools, one step removed from the classrooms his work makes possible. In this video, he shares how seeing that distance not as a limitation but as a form of service unlocked a freedom and peace he never expected to find in his career.

In a do-whatever-you-want kind of culture, we might think that freedom means having no limits. But are you really free if you don’t know what you want?

Purity is the virtue that protects our capacity to love authentically and completely. It gives us the freedom to see others as God sees them, as persons to cherish. This article is part of a series on the virtues, inspired by St. Josemaría’s homily “Human Virtues.”