Opus Dei

The Prelate urges us to prepare our hearts to receive our Lord at Christmas, and speaks about the recent Apostolic Exhortation of the Holy Father, "Verbum Domini."

Vicky Balfour is 19. She plays hockey at a club where she also coaches a girls' team. She tells us how hockey training has helped her in her relationship with God.

Audio files of St Josemaria’s voice, speaking in Spanish about the family, how to pray, presence of God when working, and Opus Dei. Songs and carols.

Christ encouraged us to help others in such a way that only God knows. St. Josemaría repeats that message here (0’37”).

A selection of texts on Christ's birth in Bethlehem.

Caroline is a Cooperator of Opus Dei. She discovers how the little pieces of the “fabric of her ordinary life” come together beautifully when God enters the picture.

In an apostolic exhortation on the Word of God with conclusions from the 2008 Synod, the Pope points, among other saints, to St. Josemaría as "a ray of light streaming forth from the word of God."

On November 13, Bishop Javier Echevarría ordained 34 faithful of Opus Dei to the diaconate. They will receive priestly ordination in May. With homily from the Mass and names of those ordained.

St. Josemaría Escrivá was canonized on the 6th of October, 2002. From 1928 until his death in 1975, he preached that all men and women are called to holiness. His statue in the Vatican reminds thousands of Catholic faithful of this message (1:40').

Death is hard, St. Josemaría admits, but it is the step that opens the doors of life. And so we Christians can face death with hope (00:52’’).