Opus Dei

We offer 40 short excerpts from Benedict XVI’s messages for Lent since occupying the chair of Peter, with a link to his Lenten message for this year.

To work better, to help people work and to provide work for others. These are the aims that have given rise to the Eastland Project, an initiative in which students, managers of small or middle size firms, and persons with very limited resources improve their own prospects of financial growth.

February 14th commemorates the start of Opus Dei's apostolic work with women in 1930 and the beginning of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross in 1943. With life stories from 3 women in Opus Dei.

Haseen S. Aswani, a Hindu, is a student of pharmacy and the dean of the Alsajara University Residence in Granada, Spain, a corporate work of Opus Dei for women

Uniting our setbacks and sufferings to Christ's self-giving on the Cross is always fruitful, the Prelate reminds us in his letter this month.

VIDEO: an engineering grad student talks about discovering Catholicism and Opus Dei, what attracts him as a non-Christian to religion, and what he has learned living in an Opus Dei student residence.

The web page of the Information Office of Opus Dei can now be accessed on mobile phones and PDAs in 30 languages.

Leire is 33. She is married to Robert. Their plan was to build “a bright and cheerful home”, an expression she learnt from St Josemaría, the founder of Opus Dei. They have been married for nine years and have four children, including two daughters with Down's syndrome. With them, their home is indeed bright and cheerful.

Mondo TV, an Italian production company, has aired a 70 minute animated film on St. Josemaría's early life. Here is a second short clip (03'01'').