Audience with Pope Francis
On Friday October 18, at 11.30 am, the Holy Father received the Prelate of Opus Dei, Bishop Javier Echevarría, in a private audience.
"The birth of a handicapped child is like a tsunami"
Cosimo's birth was at first a great shock to Stefania. But her newly strengthened faith led her to launch out and help begin work opportunity programs for similarly affected children.
Working for Love
"Sanctifying oneself in work means allowing oneself to be sanctified by the Holy Spirit, who increases our capacity to love." 8th article in the series "Sanctifying our Work."
The Hinge of our Sanctification
St Josemaría often said: “Our ordinary activities are not an insignificant matter. Rather they are the very hinge on which our sanctity turns." A new article in the series on "Sanctifying our Work."
St. Josemaria Day Care Center
Spurred by St. Josemaria's canonization in October 2002, Mian Añover and her husband started a social project for impoverished children and mothers in San Pedro, Laguna (Philippines).
Your kids notice everything
St Josemaría explains how young children notice everything and he offers parents lots of practical advice in a new DVD “Take a chance on happiness.”
"Draw others to the Church by the attraction of your witness"
On October 1, feast of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Pope Francis celebrated Mass with the "Council of Cardinals" convoked in Rome, and pointed to the best way to bring many others to the Church.
"Only God's mercy heals 'cancer' of sin"
In his Angelus address on Sunday, September 15, Pope Francis spoke about the importance of imitating God's mercy and learning to forgive others.
"To present the Church as made up of divided groups would show a lack of faith"
An interview with the Prelate of Opus Dei published in "El Mercurio" (Chile) on April 7, 2013.
"Every unborn child, unjustly condemned to be aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ"
On Friday September 20, Pope Francis spoke strongly against a "throwaway culture" that especially harms the unborn and the elderly.