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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Loving priests deeply

Filmed encounter of St Josemaria with other priests, Pamplona, Spain, 1972
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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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Fr. Robert Gendreau: Priestly Society of the Holy Cross

Fr. Gendreau is a parish priest in the archdiocese of Montreal and a priest of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross.
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Homily on the Feast of Saint Josemaría, 2009

Today we are offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to God in the liturgical commemoration of St Josemaria Escriva, whom God our Lord “raised up in the Church to proclaim the universal call to holiness and apostolate”. We do so in union with thousands of [...]
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Testimony

I realized that he was a man of God, a holy priest

First news of Opus Dei I first heard about Opus Dei in 1941, on the occasion of one of the many episodes of persecution that St Josemaria Escriva and his Work had to endure. This one was in Barcelona. While I was still a seminarian I [...]
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A priest and nothing but a priest

The priestly ministry, especially in these times of great scarcity of clergy, is a terribly absorbing task which leaves no time for a “second job”. Men need us so much (though many do not realise it) that there will never be a surplus of priests. [...]
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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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