Opus Dei

Bridget Bagshaw has just had her seventh child. Married for 11 years, she takes care of her family on a full-time basis. Opus Dei helps her to be a better mother, spouse and friend, especially by a strong relationship with God.

In 1972 St. Josemaría met with a group of high school teachers. "What is the most important virtue for a teacher?", he is asked (00’52’’).

Paco has spent almost thirty years in Japan, where he teaches in a university. He writes to express his thanks for the many prayers for his country and to recount the recent events there.

“I was 26, had God’s grace and good humor and nothing else. And I had to do Opus Dei”. It was October 2, 1928, the feast of the Guardian Angels...

“I bless human love with both of my hands as a priest,” said St. Josemaría. He also recommended that spouses argue as little as possible and always make up at the end, asking one another for forgiveness (2:32).

At Benedict XVI's suggestion, more than 1,200 people read the Bible uninterruptedly over the course of a week during the Synod on the Word of God. The Pope began the reading with Genesis. Among the readers was Bishop Javier Echevarría. (Video)

1928, 1929, 1930… St Josemaria had to fulfil God’s will, but had no trained assistants, no money, and no patrons.

The Spanish Civil War breaks out, together with one of the most violent periods of religious persecution in the history of the Church

St Josemaria often recalled with gratitude how his parents introduced him step by step to the Christian way of life

Why am I becoming a priest? Our Lord wants something: what is it? And in Latin — not very elegant Latin — … I kept repeating Domine, ut videam! Ut sit! Ut sit! The thing that you want, and that I don’t know — make it happen!”