Church of St Josemaria in Chile

The Church of St Josemaria will be formally inaugurated next month, December, in El Castillo, a poor district on the outskirts of the capital. Tags: Church of St Josemaria

Homily A priest Forever

On the the Year for the Priest announced by Pope Benedict XVI, we offer the homily A Priest Forever, on which ponders the nature of the Catholic priesthood , its necessity, dignity, relation to the Mass, as well as the relation between priests and laity in the Church. Tags: Priesthood

Interview with Dr Florence Oloo

Africa as we all know, because we read in the press and some of us experience it, has a good number of challenges. Some of these challenges include bad governance, hunger, poverty, disease and corruption – to mention just a few. Tags: Benedict XVI

A lively and challenging style

Interview with Rev. Andrew Byrne, the producer of the Bilingual edition of The Way: There already existed several very good published English translations of Camino. However, at a number of points the translations seemed to me not to capture sufficiently the meaning and, especially, the lively and challenging style of the author. I thought it would be useful to have an edition which reworked them, using them of course as my starting-point. Tags: The Way

Thanksgiving for a Mother’s Love

My father, Dr. Jose a. Villegas died seventeen years ago. During these last seventeen years, it has been our mother who has kept the three generations of the growing Malvar-Villegas clan as intact as it had been when both our parents were alive. Tags: Gratitude

Novena for Work to St Josemaria

Were you surprised by the popularity of the Novena for Work? Yes. Especially when I received requests to translate it into different languages and saw that thousands of people searched for it on the web. I think this shows clearly that you only have to know St Josemaria to love him, trust him, and obtain many graces from God. Tags: Prayer, Piety, Work

A new way of life

October 6, 2009 will be the seventh anniversary of St Josemaria’s canonization. The following is an interview with Giuseppe (Pippo) Corigliano, director of Opus Dei’s Press Office in Italy. You took an active part in preparing for the canonization of Josemaria Escriva, and especially with [...] Tags: Canonization

New York Conference on St Josemaria

A conference on St Josemaria entitled “Living the Message of St Josemaria in the United States” will be held in New York on Saturday October 17, 2009. The conference is being held to mark 60 years of Opus Dei in the US. It will feature a keynote address by John Coverdale, author of a book on St Josemaria, and panel presentations. Tags: Family and work, Opus Dei, Holiness

Fifty years of Montboisé Fonteneige

Montboisé/Fonteneige hall of residence, Montreal, Canada: 1959-2009 Tags: Formation, Opus Dei

70th anniversary of The Way

September 29, 2009 is the 70th anniversary of the publication in Spain of The Way, St Josemaria’s first book, a spiritual classic. Since that first edition in 1939, it has been translated into many other languages, totaling over four and a half million copies. St Josemaria wrote for ordinary Christians Tags: The Way

Interactive timeline

The interactive timeline tells the story of St Josemaria’s life and the history of Opus Dei with photos, video-clips and brief descriptions, in parallel with notable historical events Tags: History, Opus Dei, The Will of God

How is it possible to suffer so much and still keep smiling?

The decision of implementing this initiative arose from Saint Josemarias words "We should ask our Lord to give us a good heart, capable of having compassion for other people's pain" Tags: Youth, Solidarity