Opus Dei

Escriva's Message Is a Service to the Universal Church and All Particular Churches.

"Through the teachings of the Founder of Opus Dei, I have grasped an important idea: we can only be really useful to others if we have self-discipline, control over our actions and reactions; in other words, if we are acquiring human virtues."

All Christians are made one body with Christ through Baptism and participate in his redemptive mission. Each and every one therefore must actively work to pass on to all men and women the gospel Jesus preached.

The core of this book is three homilies on themes related to the Church, given in 1972-73, when the author suffered much over the confusion of the post-conciliar years

Such conditions [of chronic radiodermatitis] always worsen progressively. Never until that moment had I known them to regress over a period of time. And in fact they had disappeared without any treatment.

I'm obviously surprised that he's operating again, knowing that he had grave radiodermatitis on his hands. I've been told that he's been able to return to full surgical practice because his hands are completely healthy now.

His hands are now completely cured. He attributes the cure of his hands from chronic radiodermatitis to the petition he made to Blessed Josemaria.

Wanting to help, I gave him a prayer-card of Monsignor Josemaria Escriva, the Founder of Opus Dei. I suggested he could seek his protection and ask for the favor of his hands being cured.

Chronic radiodermatitis is a disease most commonly found in doctors whose hands have been exposed over the years to the ionizing radiation used in radiodiagnostic procedures.