Opus Dei

Father Julián Díez-Antoñanzas is a member of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross and is parish priest in Saragossa (Spain). Last summer, he accompanied some blind people on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He tells us some of his experiences.

Vesta Ostoic has three daughters and lives in a town in Namibia, 900 km away from the city. She moved there from London because her husband works in a mining company. In her situation, it is a bit more difficult to receive Christian formation and to do apostolate … but not impossible.

After the recent terrorist attack at the University of Navarra, in which over 20 people were injured, the president of the university, Ángel J. Gómez-Montoro, made a public statement.

The Pope visited the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Holy Rosary at Pompeii, Italy on Oct 20. In this excerpt about his trip, he talks about the power of praying the Holy Rosary.

Emily Mwangi tells how Saint Josemaría Escrivá’s teachings influenced her life and her work.

My chief memory of Msgr. Escriva is his great lightheartedness. Once he gave me a little laughing donkey and said: “Every time you look at it, it will remind you to pray for me.” He gave a special significance to the donkey; he used to call himself “a beast of burden for Our Lord.” Bishop William Gordon Wheeler of Leeds wrote the following testimony some years after the death of Msgr Josemaria Escriva in June 1975. It was published in the Scottish Catholic Observer on 23 April 1982.

Lin Hao is a Taiwanese member of Opus Dei. He recounts his personal impressions of the events leading up to the meeting his family had with the Prelate of Opus Dei in Singapore on August 2 and the fatherly advice they received, all of which was made possible because of the love and support of his family.

Msgr. Escrivá was interviewed by Time magazine journalist Peter Forbath on 15th April 1967. In that conversation, he talked about 2nd October 1928, the day Opus Dei was founded. We offer some excerpts from that interview.

More than 1,200 people read the Bible uninterruptedly over the course of a week during the Synod on the Word of God in Rome. The Pope began the reading with Genesis. Among the readers was Bishop Javier Echevarría. (Video)

Words from Bishop Javier Echevarría's intervention in the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God