"Urbi et Orbi" Blessing in Saint Peter's Basilica
Dear Brothers and Sisters, a good, happy and peaceful Easter!Today, throughout the world, the Church’s proclamation resounds: “Jesus, who was crucified, has risen as he said. Alleluia!”The Easter...
View ArticleVirtual Meeting with the Prelate for UNIV 2021
Excerpts from a Zoom video-conference with young men from various countries. In this conversation, Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz answers questions from people from Venezuela, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico,...
View Article"We should ask the saints to intercede for us"
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!Today, I would like to reflect on the connection between prayer and the communion of saints. In fact, when we pray, we never do so alone: even if we do not think...
View Article"The Church's essential task is to pray, and to teach how to pray"
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!The Church is a great school of prayer. Many of us learned how to whisper our first prayers on our parents’ or grandparents’ laps. We might, perhaps, cherish the...
View ArticleCharacters in a Divine Story
Partial transcript of a podcast by Pablo Perez:To get to know Opus Dei and its history better, I think the key is to get to know more people of Opus Dei better, including those who have already passed...
View Article"Vocal prayer is the prayer of the simple"
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!Prayer is dialogue with God; and every creature, in a certain sense, “dialogues" with God. Within the human being, prayer becomes word, invocation, hymn, poetry…...
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Alvaro, a Beacon for his Friends
Ever since 2013, when he converted to Catholicism, Alvaro sought to transmit to his friends the light he had received from God. And when in 2014 he asked for admission to the Work as a supernumerary,...
View ArticlePriestly Ordinations on 22 May
Achbishop Georg Gänswein, prefect of the Papal Household and private secretary to Benedict XVI, will ordain 27 faithful of Opus Dei as priests in the Basilica of Saint Eugene in Rome. The ceremony will...
View Article"To meditate means to encounter Jesus within us"
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!Today we will talk about the form of prayer called meditation. For a Christian, to “meditate” is to seek meaning: it implies placing oneself before the immense...
View Article"We are called to make important things interesting"
The School of Communications at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome is dedicated to training men and women who will be future communicators for the Church throughout the world. And...
View Article"Contemplative prayer does so much good for the Church"
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!We continue the catechesis on prayer and in this catechesis, I would like to reflect on contemplative prayer.The contemplative dimension of the human being –...
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A Dream Wedding… That Ended At McDonald’s
It was love at first sight. They connected immediately. First as friends, and soon as an engaged couple. Right after they first met, René told Rocio that, if one day they were to marry, he would like...
View ArticleMay Recollection Kit
A monthly recollection is a chance to step back from the whirlwind of daily tasks for a few hours of quiet prayer spent looking at God, the world, and ourselves. It is not always easy to find time to...
View Article"This is the moment of sheer faith"
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!Continuing in the line of the Catechism, in this catechesis we refer to the lived experience of prayer, trying to show some very common difficulties, which must...
View ArticleArchbishop Gänswein Ordains 27 Priests from 14 Countries
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, prefect of the Papal Household and private secretary of Benedict XVI, this morning ordained 27 priests of the Opus Dei prelature in the Basilica of Saint Eugene in Rome. The...
View ArticleMary, Mother of the Church
Commentary by Cardinal Robert SarahHistory of the mosaic Mary "Mater Ecclesiae" in Saint Peter's SquareOne of the most recent architectural additions to Saint Peter's Square is the mosaic of Mary...
View Article"The sanctity of a few people can change the world"
What is it like to be ordained in the midst of a pandemic?The pandemic added a special touch to the ordination from many different perspectives. The diaconal ordination, here in Rome last November, was...
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A Love That Seems Excessive
In March 2018 Eloisa was just leaving Mass on Sunday when she heard a faint cry: “Elitoo…” She turned around and saw her husband, Manolo, who had suddenly begun feeling dizzy. They brought him to the...
View Article"On the last day, God solves everything"
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!There is a radical objection to prayer, which derives from an observation that we all make: we pray, we ask, and yet sometimes our prayers seem to go unheard:...
View ArticleFeast of the Most Holy Trinity
(From Pastoral Letter of Bishop Javier Echevarria, 1 June 2012):And so that we don’t forget, amid the ups and downs of life, the joyful destiny that awaits us, the liturgy invites us to celebrate and...
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