Opus Dei

A homily given by Michael Neary, Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland, at a Mass of Thanksgiving for the Canonisation of Saint Josemaría Escrivá at the Cathedral of the Assumption, Tuam.

Scarcity, poverty and misery were what a group of students from Montevideo found when they started teaching catechism in the Casavalle quarter in 1995. From this experience they developed the idea of a social project to alleviate the difficulties. Two years later land and premises were obtained, and thus was born Los Pinos Educational Center.

The Cardinal's opening words at a Mass of Thanksgiving for the Canonisation of Saint Josemaría Escrivá, at the parish church of St Thérèse, Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to attend your patron saint's canonization? Ten-month-old Mary Jo from Vancouver, named after recently canonized Saint Josemaria, did just that.

An article from L'Osservatore Romano by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

An account of the canonization Mass, the Mass of thanksgiving, the audience with the Pope, and the appearance by Romanian Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist.

An article from the November/December 2002 issue of Lay Witness magazine.

An article published in L'Osservatore Romano on the occasion of the canonization of St. Josemaría. The author is the executive director of Centro Tepeyac, a crisis pregnancy center for Latino women. She lives near Washington, D.C., with her husband and 12 children.

John Myers, Archbishop of Newark, delivered the following homily at a Mass of Thanksgiving for the canonization of St. Josemaria at St. Mary Major in Rome.