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The prelate of Opus Dei, in the sanctuary of Covadonga

From the Prelate 07/13/2018

Invited by Jesús Sanz Montes, the Archbishop of Oviedo, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz went on pilgrimage to the shrine of Covadonga to participate in the...

Youth Speaking Out: "Do I speak with Jesus, or am I frightened of silence?"

Personal testimonies 07/10/2018

Mariam is a young Kenyan woman who is studying engineering. She is convinced that we can listen to Christ who speaks to us in the ordinary experiences...

New Mediterraneans (III): "From the Wound of the right hand"

Spiritual life 07/11/2018

A "new discovery" in Saint Josemaria's spiritual life. Contemplating our Lord’s Sacred Humanity, wounded for our sins and now risen back to life,...

"Discovering the ever-youthful face of Christ"

Working on Trust (4): “Can I go out tonight?”

When Christ Passes By

Fathers of the Church 07/10/2018

An excerpt from a homily of Saint Augustine about the curing of the blind men at Jericho, in Saint Matthew's gospel.

"Sanctity is the path to happiness"

From the Prelate 07/09/2018

An extensive interview with the Prelate of Opus Dei was recently published in the Italian newspaper "Avvenire." Here are two questions about the...

Saint Josemaria: "Poet of the universal call to holiness"

Saint Josemaría

In his homily on June 26 at the Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York for the feast of Saint Josemaria, Cardinal Dolan described Opus Dei's...

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"We children of God have to be contemplatives"

"We children of God have to be contemplatives: people who, in the midst of the din of the throng, know how to find silence of soul in a lasting conversation with Our Lord, people who know how to look at him as they look at a Father, as they look at a Friend, as they look at someone with whom they are madly in love." (The Forge, 738)

Your ordinary contact with God takes place where your fellow men, your yearnings, your work and your affections are. There you have your daily encounter with Christ. It is in the midst of the most material things of the earth that we must sanctify ourselves, serving God and all mankind. Conversations, 113

Do everything for Love. Thus there will be no little things: everything will be big. Perseverance in little things for Love is heroism. The Way, 813

Persevere in the exact...

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