Opus Dei - Finding God in daily life

"The Heart of Work": Saint Josemaria's Vision

His message 10/23/2017

A short video with selections from Saint Josemaria's preaching that illustrate what he means by "sanctifying our work" and striving to find God in our...

"To you I entrust the future of the Church"

Documentary: "Ernesto Cofiño. All can be saints"

Biography 10/13/2017

Dr. Ernesto Cofiño died on October 17, 1991. He dedicated his life to assisting those most in need and vigorously defending human life in his native...

“We can ‘touch’ the living Jesus in all the events of daily life”

Interviews 10/20/2017

An interview with the Prelate of Opus Dei published in “Alfa y Omega” in Spain, by Teresa Guitierrez de Cabiedes.

New Christian Perspectives on the Future of Work

"Child Dignity in the Digital World"

From the Pope 10/11/2017

An address by Pope Francis to participants in a congress held in the Vatican on October 6, on the need to protect young people from some harmful...

"Four Days in Ireland" — 21 minute video

From the Prelate 09/13/2017

Highlights from Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz's first pastoral trip as Prelate of Opus Dei, 18-21 April 2017. With English subtitles.

The Way: "It was love at first sight"

Testimonies 10/17/2017

"I was baptized an evangelical Lutheran and even received Confirmation, but I can’t claim that I was a good Christian." Another story about how Saint...

What to Read? (II): Choosing the best

Articles on Christian life 10/09/2017

The second part in an article on the importance of fostering the habit of reading. "What we read does change us. It refines our soul or dulls it; it...

“Lord, I don't know how to pray!”

You write: 'To pray is to talk with God. But about what?' About what? About Him, about yourself: joys, sorrows, successes and failures, noble ambitions, daily worries, weaknesses! And acts of thanksgiving and petitions: and Love and reparation. In a word: to get to know him and to get to know yourself: 'to get acquainted!' (The Way, 91)

How should we pray? I would go as far as to say, without fear of being mistaken, that there are many, countless, ways of praying. But I would like all of us to pray genuinely, as God's children, not gabbling away like hypocrites who will hear from Jesus' lips 'Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord!" shall enter into the kingdom of heaven' [1]. People who live by hypocrisy can perhaps achieve 'the sound of prayer', says St Augustine, 'but they cannot possess its voice, because there is no...

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