Opus Dei

For a Christian sickness and death can and should be a means to seek holiness and to redeem with Christ. This is the purpose of the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.

By this truth we affirm the immortality to which mankind is destined; it is thus a reminder of the dignity of the human person, and in particular of the body.

The salvation achieved by Christ, and hence the mission of the Church, is directed to the human person in his or her integral being.

The Church is a communion of saints—the community of all men and women who have received the grace of regeneration from the Spirit, making them children of God and brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ.

The Holy Spirit intimately unites the faithful to Christ so that they form a single body, the Church, with a diversity of members and functions.

The second commandment prescribes honoring God's name, while the third requires keeping feast days holy.

Prayer is absolutely necessary for our spiritual life. It is, as it were, the “breathing” that permits the life of the spirit to develop.

"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.

A Rome Reports video on the upcoming beatification of Alvaro del Portillo in Madrid on September 27, 2014.

The fourth commandment, "Honor your father and your mother," has a broader scope than its primary focus: the relationship between children and their parents.