Opus Dei

A photo gallery and text of the homily delivered by Bishop Klaus Küng at the ordination of three faithful of Opus Dei as transitional deacons on 3 March 2018.

On March 3rd, three faithful of Opus Dei will be ordained transitional deacons by Bishop Klaus Küng of the diocese of St. Pölten (Austria). The ceremony will take place at Saint Josemaria Parish in Rome at 10:30 am.

Scepter publishers has just made available in English the first volume in a three-part work about the teachings of St. Josemaría on the vocation to holiness in ordinary life.

Homily preached by Archbishop Arthur Roche, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, at the funeral for a young member of the Prelature who died recently after a three-year battle with cancer.

A 21-year-old engineering student from the North of England learnt to love God and find joy in the intense pain of terminal cancer. Fr Joseph Evans, chaplain of Greygarth Hall in Manchester, tells his story.

30 girls from the Oakcrest School in Virginia joined the Sistine Chapel Choir at the Mass celebrated by Pope Francis on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. With link to video recording of their singing in St. Peter's.

31 faithful of Opus Dei were ordained deacons at the hands of Bishop Ignacio Carrasco, in the Basilica of Saint Eugene (Rome). The future priests will receive their priestly ordination on May 5, 2018.

On Saturday November 4, thirty-one faithful of the Prelature will receive diaconal ordination in the Roman Basilica of Saint Eugene. They will be ordained priests next May 5.

An Interdisciplinary Congress being held in Rome is exploring the human and supernatural meaning of work five hundred years after the Protestant Reformation and a century after the Marxist Revolution.

Thirty years ago, in August 1987, a young member of Opus Dei managed to save the life of an African boy in Kenya – but lost his own in doing so. The story of that day is recounted by Miguel Aranguren in his book "Desde un Tren Africano."