Opus Dei - Inspiration for Your Prayer

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Meditation of the day
Texts for prayer each day of the liturgical year.
July Recollection Kit (2026)
A recollection is time spent in silence with God, talking to Him and “recollecting” who we are before Him. This is a package of resources for a recollection in your own home.

Gospel of the day

Monday's Gospel: God's Grace Acting at Every Moment

07/27/2026

Gospel for Monday in the 17th Week of Ordinary Time, and commentary.

Message of the day

“Work is man's original vocation”

Work is man's original vocation. It is a blessing from God, and those who consider it a punishment are sadly mistaken. The Lord, who is the best of fathers, placed the first man in Paradise ut operaretur, so that he would work. (Furrow, 482)

From the beginning of creation man has had to work. This is not something that I have invented. It is enough to turn to the opening pages of the Bible. There you can read that, before sin entered the world, and in its wake death, punishment and misery [1], God made Adam from the clay of the earth, and created for him and his descendants this beautiful world we live …