Opus Dei

John Paul II changed the world by "the simple force of an unquestionably good life". One year later, Bishop Javier Echevarría recalls the funeral of the pope and offers his reflections.

Article by the Prelate of Opus Dei on the occasion of International Women's Day

Bishop Javier Echevarría wrote this pastoral letter on the occasion of the beginning of Lent.

Reflections on Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical, from Bishop Javier Echevarría, the Prelate of Opus Dei.

In his most recent book, the Prelate of Opus Dei devotes a chapter to divine filiation, a supernatural reality that is fundamental to the formation given in centers of the Prelature. Here are some selections from that chapter, "The Eucharist and the Christian Life."

At the start of 2006, Bishop Javier Echevarría wrote a letter to the faithful of Opus Dei and its cooperators. We include here the paragraphs that stress the need to strengthen the institution of the family.

"When spouses found their community of life on the Eucharist, their home reproduces spiritually the house in Bethlehem, the home in Nazareth." These words of Bishop Javier Echevarria are drawn from his book, "The Eucharist and Christian Life."

The Second Vatican Countil closed forty years ago. Bishop Javier Echevarria reflects on this anniversary in an interview with Patricia Mayorga.

The Prelate's article in the Italian newspaper, "Avvenire", on the closing of the Synod on the Eucharist, in which he took part.

Bishop Javier Echevarria, Prelate of Opus Dei, delivered the following homily on September 22 in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in observance of the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.