Videoclips during the Year for Priests

For the Year for Priests proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI, this website featured a series of videoclips showing St Josemaria in encounters with priests from different countries. In one of them, St Josemaria said, “I can tell you that I am overjoyed to see you, my [...]
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Spanish Priests

Bishop Javier Echevarria, the prelate of Opus Dei, will speak at a conference on twentieth-century priests connected with the diocese of Valencia, Spain, on February 5, 2010. His paper will be about Opus Dei founder St Josemaria Escriva. The life of the founder of Opus [...]
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Filmed get-togethers with priests

Between 1972 and 1975 St Josemaria, the founder of Opus Dei, undertook a series of long catechetical trips throughout Spain, Portugal and Latin America to talk about God. He had numerous meetings with men and women, young people and priests. In his answers to people’s [...]
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Homily A priest Forever

Pope Benedict XVI announced the "Year for the Priest," -from June 19, 2009 and ending on June 19, 2010- on the 150th anniversary of the death of St. John Mary Vianney. Here is the homily A Priest Forever, on which ponders the nature of the Catholic [...]
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St Josemaría on the altarpiece of a Seminary Chapel in the Philippines

On October 2, 2005, the Vicar General of the Diocese of San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines, blessed the altarpieces of St. Peter’s college seminary chapel. One of them depicted St. Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei. “The Church promotes the use of visual arts such as [...]
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August 7: Bishop Javier, Prelate of Opus Dei, celebrates his golden jubilee as a priest

“I cannot fail to recall that a few weeks from now, in August, God willing, I will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood,” said Bishop Javier Echevarria on June 25, in the homily of the Mass he celebrated in Rome for [...]
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Twentieth anniversary of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

A commemoration ceremony was held on January 10 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the “Roman Academic Center of the Holy Cross” by the decree Dei Servus, in 1985. The Hoffner Room at the University of the Holy Cross, where the ceremony [...]
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