Celebrating Christmas 2017
Homlies and articles about ChristmasHomily of Pope Francis on Christmas Eve 2014Homily of Saint Josemaria on Christmas Eve 1963Christmas Time: The Light of BethlehemBethlehem Ever Present in the...
View ArticleVideo Message from the Prelate for Christmas
A video message for the feast of Christmas from Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, Prelate of Opus Dei.
View ArticleMigrants and refugees: men and women in search of peace
1. Heartfelt good wishes for peace Peace to all people and to all nations on earth! Peace, which the angels proclaimed to the shepherds on Christmas night,[1] is a profound aspiration for everyone, for...
View Article"The run of his life" – article published in "Aleteia"
By John Burger (published in "Aleteia," December 27, 2017)Kyle Lang and his friends looked not too different from any other 20-somethings on the beach at New York’s Coney Island last summer. It was a...
View Article"Sin always cuts, separates, divides"
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!Resuming the catechesis on the Eucharistic celebration, let us consider today, in the context of the introductory rites, the penitential act. In its sobriety, it...
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Oakcrest Choir Sings at Papal Mass with the Sistine Chapel Choir
What is it like to sing with the Sistine Chapel Choir...in Rome...at St. Peter’s Basilica...on New Year’s Day... at a Mass celebrated by the Holy Father? Ask any of the 30 members of the choir from...
View ArticleApostolic Journey to Chile and Peru
CHILEMonday, 15 January 2018ROME - SANTIAGO8.00Departure by plane from Rome/Fiumicino Airport for Santiago20.10Arrival at Santiago International AirportWelcome ceremony21.00Arrival of the Holy Father...
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“I have never been happier”
In the early hours of Saturday 13th January, as the Hail Holy Queen was being prayed around him, a young engineering student called Pedro Ballester breathed his last and went to God. Pedro was a...
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“Accompanied by your prayer”
Rio de Janeiro, 23 January 2018From Brazil, on the first anniversary of my election as Prelate of Opus Dei, I am keeping all of you very much in mind, and I feel accompanied by the help of your prayer....
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Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, in Brazil
He was met at the airport of Galeão by Monsignor Vicente Ancona Lopez, regional vicar of Opus Dei in Brazil, and a small group of faithful of the Prelature. They went from the airport to Icatu, the...
View ArticleAcademic Act Honoring Bishop Javier Echevarría
On Friday the 19th of January, in the morning, the Prelate gave an address at an academic act of homage for the former chancellor Bishop Javier Echevarría. Also taking part were the rector of the...
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"He discovered a love in Christ stronger than death"
“When Pedrito committed himself as a celibate lay member of Opus Dei, with that generosity which is so characteristic of youth, he could not have known how the Lord would call him to follow in His...
View Article“The truth will set you free”: Fake news and journalism for peace
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY24 January 2018“The truth will set you free” (Jn 8:32). Fake news and journalism for peaceDear Brothers and Sisters,Communication is...
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"The people are so wonderful"
A group of high school boys from New York City spent a week in Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala, over winter break working at the local water treatment plant and conducting a camp for children in the...
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"Ordinary Life and Holiness in the Teaching of St. Josemaria" (Volume 1)
This first of a three-volume work of spiritual theology provides a deeper, enriched presentation of the teaching of St. Josemaría on the vocation to holiness in ordinary life, as lived out by lay...
View ArticleFeast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple
The Mosaic law prescribed that every firstborn male in Israel had to be consecrated to God forty days after birth and redeemed with a sum deposited in the Temple treasury. This was in remembrance of...
View ArticlePope Francis in Chile and Peru
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View Article"Putting music in its right place"
John, a professional musician in Canada, learned from Saint Josemaria that making a place for God in his life meant he could find the right place for his family and friends too, and sanctify his music.
View ArticleSeven Sundays of Saint Joseph
The custom of the Seven Sundays of Saint JosephPope Gregory XVI encouraged this devotion to Saint Joseph by attaching many indulgences to it, and Blessed Pope Pius IX asked the faithful to petition...
View ArticleMessage for Lent 2018
“Because of the increase of inquity, the love of many will grow cold” (Mt 24:12)Dear Brothers and Sisters,Once again, the Pasch of the Lord draws near! In our preparation for Easter, God in his...
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