Topic 37: Eighth Commandment
With the grace of Christ, who is the Truth, Christians can live a life governed by truth.
Topic 40: "Our Father who art in heaven"
"If we pray the Our Father sincerely, we leave individualism behind, because the love that we receive frees us from it. The ‘our’ at the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer, like the ‘us’ of the last four petitions, excludes no one."
Christians in the Middle of the World
Opus Dei has around 90,000 members, both men and women. 98% are laypeople, most of whom are married. The remaining 2% are priests.
Topic 39: Prayer
Prayer is absolutely necessary for our spiritual life. It is, as it were, the “breathing” that permits the life of the spirit to develop.
Topic 36: Seventh Commandment
The seventh commandment forbids unjustly taking or keeping the goods of one’s neighbor and wronging him in any way with respect to his goods.
Topic 33: Fourth Commandment
The fourth commandment, "Honor your father and your mother," has a broader scope than its primary focus: the relationship between children and their parents.
Topic 35: Sixth Commandment
"God is love" (1 Jn 4:8), and his love is fruitful. He wants human beings to share in this fecundity, by linking the procreation of each new person with a specific act of love between a man and a woman.
Letter from the Prelate on the Beatification
With the announcement of the date and place for Alvaro del Portillo's beatification, the Prelate of Opus Dei has written a brief letter.
Centennial of Dora del Hoyo's Birth
Trailer from a new documentary about the life of Dora del Hoyo, who was born on January 11, 1914 and whose cause of canonization was opened in 2012.
In a blizzard
My parents pray for me and my family daily. They are the parents of 7 and grandparents of 32 and great grandparents of 7. They received the prayer card of Don Alvaro from a dear friend.