The Cooperators of Opus Dei

Who are the Cooperators of Opus Dei? The cooperators of Opus Dei are people who are not members of the Opus Dei prelature, but who cooperate with the faithful of the prelature in various ways. Men and women of every race, religion and culture, from [...]
Tags: Ecumenical dialogue, Formation, Poverty, Solidarity

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Strathmore College, Kenya

Strathmore College opened in 1961, just as Kenya was preparing for independence. When independence finally arrived in 1963, the country faced three serious problems: illiteracy, poverty and disease. There was an urgent need to tackle these problems, especially the lack of basic education, but at [...]
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Condoray Women’s Training Center

In July 1974, Saint Josemaría Escrivá was in Peru, in the Cañete Valley, where he had several informal meetings and get-togethers with people who worked on the land there. Condoray had been open since 1963. It is a women’s training center situated 145 km from Lima, [...]
Tags: Family and work, Formation, Poverty, Solidarity

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The University of Navarre, Spain

«The University of Navarre was founded in 1952 by St Josemaria Escriva, who summed up the University’s mission as follows: “We want this to be a place where people acquire a high level of learning and a Christian outlook on life. We want it to [...]
Tags: Formation, Responsibility, University

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The Faithful of the Prelature

Who are the members of Opus Dei? People ask to join Opus Dei because they receive a calling to it from God. The vocation to Opus Dei determines or focuses the Christian vocation received with Baptism; it points to a specific way of seeking holiness in [...]
Tags: Formation, Opus Dei, Ordinary life, Vocation

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Opus Dei

What does “Opus Dei” mean? Opus Dei means “the Work of God”. Its complete name is the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. It is also known as the Opus Dei prelature, or simply, Opus Dei. What is Opus Dei? Opus Dei is a [...]
Tags: Passionately Loving the World, Formation, Opus Dei, Opus Dei prelature

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Expansion

Between 1946 and 1960 Opus Dei began its apostolate in several new countries, including Portugal, Italy, Great Britain, France, Ireland, the US, Kenya, and Japan. These were years of physical suffering. The Father’s diabetes was the cause of great discomfort. He lived with a constant headache, [...]
Tags: Sickness, Faith, Formation, Opus Dei, Plan of life

Testimony

Like a safe port for our little boat

I was baptized at Christmas 1964. A little time later, through a friend, my mother-in-law and I met the Work. As someone recently baptized and just beginning my married life, I found Saint Josemaria’s teachings immensely valuable and received them with gratitude: everything was new [...]
Tags: Baptism, Formation

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Escrivá was a "modern master in the spirituality of work"

We can humanize work when we bring God into it, because that gives our life its meaning. Cardinal Schonborn’s article proposes a “human ecology of work”, for which there have always been teachers in the life of the Church. St Josemaria was one of them. Work [...]
Tags: Formation, Church, books