Go and Do Likewise (III): At the Forefront of Transforming the World
As Christians, we share the longing to make true the ideals we want for our world — justice, solidarity, charity — with many others. Yet sometimes conflict still arises when we try to work together. How can love, justice, and solidarity become realities in our lives?
Making the Centre a Home (I)
Open, bright, cheerful homes: this is what God wants. This is the first instalment of reflections on family life within the centres of Opus Dei.
Apostles Who Give Life
The vocation to Opus Dei as a numerary: enlarging the heart to transmit God's life to the members of the Work and to those who share a stretch of the journey towards heaven with them.
Who were the apostles?
They were "ordinary men, with defects, with weaknesses. And yet Jesus called them to be stewards of God's grace," St. Josemaría reminds us. Answers to some of the most common questions about Jesus’s twelve apostles.
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
September 14 is the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. A brief history of how this feast came to be celebrated in the Church.
Special Dates
Meditations for solemnities, feasts, and memorials, as well as special periods like the novena to the Immaculate Conception, the week of prayer for Christian unity, and the Sundays of St. Joseph.
Life of Mary (II): Birth of Mary
When Mary was born, although no one living at the time was aware of what was happening, the angels in Heaven rejoiced. The Church celebrates the Nativity of our Lady on 8 September.
Life of Mary (XX): Coronation and Queenship
August 22 is the feast of our Lady's Queenship: "And the Angels pay her homage as her subjects... and the patriarchs and the prophets and the Apostles... and all sinners and you and I."