Opus Dei

Prayer is a heart-to-heart dialogue with God, and we have to put our whole heart into it.

"There, in the depths of each one's soul, God is speaking," Bishop Alvaro del Portillo assures us.

Lidia, from Barbastro, Spain, asks Bishop Javier Echeverria, Prelate of Opus Dei, how to pray with the Gospel. He suggests trying to "get inside the skin" of those people in the Gospel, and Mary specifically, and to talk to them.

"The only real regret lies in not being a saint . . . we could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ."

Video. An Overseas Filipino Worker narrates how devotion to St. Josemaria has helped him during his 10 years in Saudi Arabia and how St. Josemaria continues to provide for his family's needs.

Many people all over the world seek Dora's intercession to help them in their daily life. Here you will find her prayer card for private devotion. You can learn more about favors received through Dora's intercession in the "Favors" section.

A mother and housewife who also works in public relations asks how to live in God's presence. - Father, I'm a mother and a housewife, but I also work in public relations. My question is: Here in Sao Paulo, where life can be quite frenetic, there's the danger of becoming material-minded. How can we keep our supernatural outlook amidst all the rush?

Saint Josemaria talks about mental prayer, the practice of dialoguing with God and developing a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Angela learned from St Josemaria that prayer is making friends with Christ, and that holiness is not a theoretical ideal but something to work towards every day.

Murielle Heena A. Catabui, Philippines: St Josemaria showed us that we can be saints by being ourselves – being very good students and very good citizens.