Opus Dei

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Fr Jose Antonio Abad never forgot what his friend told him in all frankness: “I have come to help you, if you agree to be helped. But, in any case, I will tell you honestly what I think of your attitude…”

Whenever my strength fails me, with God’s help I get up and begin again, just like St Josemaría said: “Nunc coepi! Now I begin!”

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

Excerpt from Bishop Javier Echevarría’s recent get-together in Puerto Rico with people who attend Opus Dei’s activities and their friends (03’47’’).