“Dora holds special importance for Opus Dei”
Dora del Hoyo was the first numerary assistant. An interview with Javier Medina, who has written a brief biography entitled “A Lighted Lamp.”
St. Josemaria: "The best way to serve society"
In a get-together in 1972, St. Josemaria speaks about how we can best serve the society in which we live.
Letter from the Prelate (February 2012)
"Charity and humility are closely united; and their mature fruit is unity." The Prelate focuses on the topic of unity in his letter this month.
What is the best way to serve society?
"You are serving your fellow-men when you work for their spiritual good and their material good... Look for the good, seek life, and struggle."
3 Novenas for St. Josemaria's Intercession
Besides the Novena for Work that has resulted in numerous favors, two other novenas are now available in English: the Novena for the Sick and the Novena for the Family.
St. Josemaria: the meaning of suffering
St. Josemaria speaks about the strength he found to bring Opus Dei forward back in the 1930's in the hospitals for the poor in Madrid.
How can I have patience with the public?
"Spiritual life today is the same as in the 16th century, or the first century. Christians today have the same means as the first Christians, the ones who lived with Jesus, and as Twelve Apostles, who could still hear his breath as he died on the Cross... We've progressed in everything including business companies, but not in the interior life."
The Boys, the Cow and my Mum
"They were street kids. Some lived in shanties with their parents, five in a room. Others were orphans and slept wherever they could." The Eastlands project in Nairobi is having a big impact on many young people in Kenya.
Address of Benedict XVI at Ecumenical Prayer Service
“Grant that we may all be one, as you are one with the Father”: Did Jesus’ prayer go unheard? The history of Christianity is in some sense the visible element of this drama in which Christ strives and suffers with us human beings. Ever anew he must endure the rejection of unity, yet ever anew unity takes place with him and thus with the triune God. Adress of Benedict XVI during the Apostolic Journey to Germany, on 2011 during an ECUMENICAL PRAYER SERVICE
Peace begins with interior struggle
Saint Josemaria says that peace in society starts with each person's stuggle to be a better person. "To have peace in our hearts we have to win our interior struggle, because we are all inclined to sin. We were born like that... And if we don't fight, we will fall and lead a really unhappy life."