Opus Dei

Prayer is a heart-to-heart dialogue with God, and we have to put our whole heart into it.

Christians should be truly joyful. Christian optimism is based on the fact that a royal way to the greatest good of all has been opened up to us: the way to God.

My boyfriend, who has great devotion to St Josemaria, advised me to pray to him, find out about him, and learn to love him. And astonishingly, that is what happened.

"Striving to turn work into prayer, and offering it to God, this is the secret of Opus Dei," Blessed Alvaro del Portillo said in a get-together in Paris in 1988.

Lent is "a time especially propitious for imitating Christ by our generous dedication to the members of his Mystical Body," the Prelate tells us in his letter this month.

Reconciling work and family obligations is not always easy. We can learn a lot from the Holy Family, as this new article in the series on sanctifying work reminds us.

With Archbishop Oscar Romero's cause of canonization moving forward, we offer an article by Fernando Saenz, with his memories of March 24, 1980, the day Romero was assassinated.

For the past ten years Philippe Jourdan has been at the head of the Catholic Church in Estonia, the only Catholic bishop in a country with six thousand Catholics. An interview published in "Religión en Libertad."

In a get-together in Zurich in 1983, Blessed Alvaro spoke about the founder of Opus Dei's frequent visits to the hospitals and poor neighborhoods of Madrid back in the 1930s. (To turn English subtitles on or off, click on "cc" in the bottom right-hand corner of the video.)

In his February 11 general audience, Pope Francis continued his catechesis on the family, praising parents who have the generosity to raise a large family.