The Pope Encourages Reading the Bible
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)
The Founding of Opus Dei
“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...
UNIV 2010 Audience with the Pope
In his Wednesday audience during Holy Week, Benedict XVI urged the students taking part in UNIV to bear witness to Christ with their joy (3:11).
The Seminary Years
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!”
A Christian Family
St Josemaria often recalled with gratitude how his parents introduced him step by step to the Christian way of life
The Civil War
The Spanish Civil War breaks out, together with one of the most violent periods of religious persecution in the history of the Church
"How could I not bless human love?"
“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).
The First Years of Opus Dei
1928, 1929, 1930… St Josemaria had to fulfil God’s will, but had no trained assistants, no money, and no patrons.
What I like about St Josemaria
Mary Wanjiku, from Kenya, finds the source of St Josemaria's optimism in his understanding of God's love for each individual.
Letter from the Prelate (April 2011)
The Prelate expresses his hope that, with the upcoming beatification of John Paul II, "the Holy Spirit will awaken many souls to a deep conversion and bring them close to God once again."