Opus Dei

What would the Holy Father tell every priest in the world if he could spend a moment with each one? According to the Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, Benedict XVI would speak about the priest's identity (03'29").

Jose Ernesto was working his way through university by being a part-time taxi driver, when he started having dizzy spells...

VIDEO: an art historian talks about deciding to be a numerary, his experiences at college, and trying to fit the Opus Dei “norms” into an average day.

The Prelate reflects on the sanctifying value of our work and, in the context of the current global crisis, urges us "to purify our faith, foster hope, and grow in charity."

The website, www.josemariaescriva.info, has been redesigned and enlarged. It now becomes the fullest internet site for information about "the saint of the ordinary," as John Paul II called him.

This is the opening line from a pocketbook of spiritual considerations written by St Josemaría’s called “The Way”, which has sold more than 5 million copies in more than 45 languages. Oct 2, 2009, marks the 70th year of it publication.

The first copy of “Camino” (“The Way”, in English), came off the press in Valencia, Spain on 29th Sept 1939, then the feast day of St Michael the Archangel. The first copy reached the hands of its author, St Josemaría, on Oct 2 in Madrid. The first English edition was published in Dublin 14 years later, and in Chinese in 1970. It has been translated to more than 45 languages.

We have a human ideal that becomes divine. New horizons of hope open up in our life and we come to the point of sacrificing willingly.

On September 6 the Prelate of Opus Dei ordained to the priesthood Diego Pérez Gondar and José Ramón Alba Riera in the Sanctuary of Torreciudad

We offer the third in a series of articles on how to sanctify our daily work in light of the teachings of St. Josemaria.