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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Harambee Africa International

Harambee – All Together for Africa – is a solidarity initiative that originated around the canonization of St Josemaria Escriva. Harambee promotes educational programmes in Africa and about Africa – developmental projects on the sub-Saharan region and awareness-building activities elsewhere designed to encourage a positive [...]
Tags: Gratitude, Canonization, Education, Justice, Solidarity, Harambee

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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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Through everyone’s efforts

People can help to improve society through their ordinary work, which, as Saint Josemaría saw it, is not only a necessity in order to support oneself and one’s family, nor just a means of production, nor merely a way to self-fulfilment. It is much more [...]
Tags: Justice, Solidarity, Ordinary life

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S is for Suffering

In Congo, there is a hereditary blood disease that affects close to 2% of newborn babies, which is called Drepanocytic Anemia or Sickle Cell Anemia (SSA). This disease is characterized principally by bouts of pain, severe anemia and serious infections, and has a very high [...]
Tags: Suffering, Sickness, Eucharist, Jesus Christ, Solidarity

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Josemaria Escriva’s love for the virtue of poverty

The article below is a translation of one that appeared in the Spanish daily ABC on June 26, 1985, the tenth anniversary of St Josemaria’s death. The Philippines are currently undergoing a grave economic crisis. With God’s grace and the untiring efforts of men and [...]
Tags: Justice, Poverty, Solidarity

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Africa, its people and the message of Josemaria Escrivá

The goal which I propose to you – better still the goal that God sets for you - is holiness. This message of saint Josemaria came to Africa almost 50 years ago. The following article highlights the reception of saint Josemaria’s message as something personal, [...]
Tags: Passionately Loving the World, Responsibility, Holiness, Solidarity