Opus Dei

Video and stories from Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz's time in Portugal. He met with families, got to know educational initiatives, listened to stories from the recent World Youth Day, and spent time with the people of Opus Dei in the country.

In his 11 October general audience, Pope Francis continued his catechetical cycle on apostolic zeal, speaking about Saint Josephine Bakhita.

I was very young when I arrived in Kenya. I was grateful that from the beginning, I did not feel alone. Immediately I realized that I was another link in a chain and would be picking the baton from many brave women who worked from the first moment to bring the message of Opus Dei to Africa.

Let us open our hearts and “pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level.”

Pope Francis asks us to pray especially for the Synod on Synodality this month. The Synod of Bishops will be held in Rome from 4-29 October.

We spent the last two weeks of our holidays helping needy students in the north of Mombasa.

On 1 October, we began to publish daily Gospel commentaries as food for prayer about Jesus’s life and words.

In his 27 September general audience, Pope Francis spoke about his recent apostolic journey to Marseille for the “Rencontres Méditerranéennes.”

Nkem, a young mother and a supernumerary of Opus Dei, shares her adventure of teaching catechism classes in Lagos with other mothers of young children.

We set out on a rainy Friday morning to Kitui... with a small troop of boys who, myself included, had not painted anything bigger than their own rooms, if they had painted anything at all.