Number of articles: 5093

Youth: from young people, for young people

Youth is a new space on the Opus Dei website with content for young people, by young people. It includes personal testimonies from around the world, simple explanations to complex questions, material for prayer, and inspiration for everyday life.

Youth

Human Devices

They're “alarm clocks” in ordinary life, like the chime of your phone with a reminder, letting you know that God is there waiting for you.

For Prayer

Distractions

A fill-in-the-blank prayer guide with questions to inspire your personal conversation with God when you're distracted.

For Prayer

The power of friendship

The first students who took part in Opus Dei's work with young people didn't feel like they were adding one more good thing to their to-do lists: they felt like main characters in the story, and they wanted to blaze a trail. And we'll always need trailblazers.

Saint Raphael

Sometimes, distance happens

A short case study about close friends who grow apart when they enter the workforce. How do you decide when and how to fight for a friendship?

The World & I

Vocation

Young people in the Work share their vocation stories, from the discernment process to their doubts, hesitations, dreams, and current projects. This is a trailer for a series of short personal testimonies.

Saint Raphael

June Recollection Kit (2024)

A recollection is a “mini-retreat,” a few hours of quiet prayer when we look at our lives in God's presence. This guide can help us spend an hour or two in loving conversation with God, right where we are.

An Ardent Love for the Truth

Relativism entails a way of acting that manifests a deep perplexity in the face of reality: since I cannot know anything definitively, I cannot make decisions that lead to a true and lasting self-giving.

Learning to Forgive

The art of living together is closely related to the ability to ask for forgiveness and to forgive. We are all weak and often make mistakes. So we have to help each other to always get up again. And the best way to do so is often through forgiveness. An article by Jutta Burggraf.

Friendship

Excerpt from a book by Francisco Fernandez Carvajal, "Pasó haciendo el bien," Madrid, Palabra 2016.