April 01, 2006
VIDEO: a contractor talks about finding his vocation to be a supernumerary, Opus Dei's influence on his children, and his concerns about Opus Dei.
September 22, 2007
Molly, a student at the University of California at Berkeley, talks about living her faith at the university and recalls how that faith was tested by the recent death of her mother.
October 23, 2009
Ana became pregnant shortly after getting married. At 6 weeks she had a sonogram: "the one filled with hope." The second sonogram, taken at 12 weeks, was "the one filled with doubts," her husband Thomas said. As a radiologist, he was concerned about the size of the growing child's extremities ….
October 16, 2009
Isabella Tan, a widow and mother of three young children, tells how she changed when Christ entered her life
September 14, 2009
Cristina Zudaire, an Argentinean supernumerary, is the mother of five, an organist, and a lover of Bach’s music. She tries to always leave room for beauty in "the hustle and bustle of daily life."
September 03, 2009
Grzegorz Roś, from Poland, is 29. He works as an acrobat in Las Vegas. “My profession allows me to entertain people and to ‘amuse’ God,” he says. Grzegorz is a cooperator of Opus Dei.
July 27, 2009
Bishop Enrique Pelach, the first priest of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, brought thousands of men and women to God traveling by horseback along mountain trails in Peru.
July 10, 2009
Rita Youssif belongs to the Maronite Rite. When still a young girl in Lebanon she had to flee from her village because of the fighting. Despite all the upheavals, she came to realize that God had a plan for her life (Video).
June 23, 2009
It was June 1975. “I took up my camera one last time and focused on his hands, which were so expressive. That was the last photo of him that I took.”
May 22, 2009
The need for a buddy system among many siblings provided the motto for this Spanish family. An interview with Rosa Pich, mother of 15.
April 28, 2009
Begoña couldn’t understand why God had allowed her brother to fall into a coma. After undergoing a conversion in her own life, she brought her new-found faith and happiness to many other people.
April 06, 2009
An interview with Fr. Esteben Aranaz, a member of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, who is returning from six years of priestly work in Taiwan and on the Chinese mainland.
March 30, 2009
Silvia Ugolini is a lawyer and is married with three children.
Opus Dei, she says, has helped her juggle her roles as an executive, a mother and a spouse, keeping priorities straight and finding new energy each day.
March 16, 2009
Oskari, who was born and raised in Finland without any religious belief, first began to take an interest in Christianity in 2001. Now he is a numerary in Opus Dei. He speaks about celibacy and his self-giving to God. ( 9 minutes. In Finnish, with subtitles).
March 09, 2009
Ana Belen, a young Andaluz woman, narrates her life and vocation as a numerary assistant through eight photographs.
February 15, 2009
Marilyn and Jean-René Philibert are both cooperators of Opus Dei. Opus Dei has helped them to strenghten their faith, they say, by showing them how to integrate it into their daily lives.
February 09, 2009
Haseen S. Aswani, a Hindu, is a student of pharmacy and the dean of the Alsajara University Residence in Granada, Spain, a corporate work of Opus Dei for women
January 25, 2009
Bridget Bagshaw has just had her seventh child. Married for 11 years, she takes care of her family on a full-time basis.
Opus Dei helps her to be a better mother, spouse and friend, especially by a strong relationship with God.
January 18, 2009
Lola Pardo Conde is from Valladolid, Spain. Through her brother, their family met Fr. Josemaria in the 1940s. She became a Supernumerary in 1964.
January 14, 2009
Martine Otou is from Cameroun and has been living in Canada with her family for a number of years.
She tells how Opus Dei has helped her to recover inner peace and to make family decisions serenely.
January 01, 2009
I am a midwife. For the past 16 years I’ve worked in a primary care center in a small town near Malaga, Spain.
December 31, 2008
Born in China, Neil Guo has recently been granted an engineering degree in Montreal. When he was a student at McGill University, he became friends with a member of Opus Dei and discovered new horizons that have led him to become a Catholic.
December 30, 2008
Chris Afuba is an artist and lecturer at the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria. He is a Supernumerary of Opus Dei.
December 10, 2008
Wendy Fitzsimons was born in Ireland. She first heard about Opus Dei as a schoolgirl, when working at Lismullin Conference Centre, near Dublin. She currently lives and works in Rome (Italy).
December 08, 2008
Agustín Cornejo is the manager of the agricultural school, Las Garzas, in Chile, and a Supernumerary of Opus Dei. The youngest of eleven siblings, orphaned when he was six, he talks about his life and work.
November 24, 2008
Vesna Ostoic lives in Namibia, Africa. She moved there from London because of her husband's work. In her situation, it is more difficult to receive Christian formation and do apostolate…but not impossible.
September 26, 2008
Jennifer and John Kehoe, who live in Kildare, Ireland, with their five young children, speak about how St Josemaría’s teachings have helped them to see each child as a treasure and to keep their marriage young.
September 08, 2008
José Ramón Herrero tells us about an image that never fades from his memory--St Josemaria at the bedside of the dying, consoling them and talking to them about God.
August 02, 2008
A small child’s sickness and pain are very difficult to understand. But Antek, a five year old Polish boy, discovered their meaning.
June 15, 2008
Silvia Paternó is the administrator of a center of Opus Dei. With a degree in hospitality management, she oversees the domestic services in a house where 35 people live.
May 16, 2008
"I am 82 years of age and have 8 children, 25 grandchildren and 2 great grand children. I have been a supernumerary for over 30 years and I give thanks to God every day for my own vocation to Opus Dei, and for that of two of my children." -- Kay Kiernan, Dublin, Ireland
April 15, 2008
Recently four members of the Prelature in Britain posted pieces about their experience in Opus Dei on the "Faith Column", a blog hosted by the New Statesman, a popular current affairs magazine.
April 11, 2008
When Joe Atkinson went to Boston in 1957 to begin his doctorate at MIT, he never suspected how his chemistry and his faith would acquire new meanings. He is the first Canadian numerary member of Opus Dei
March 01, 2008
Now 92 years old, Francisco Corazón recalls how he met Opus Dei and relates the beginnings of a personal apostolic initiative that has since become an international network of rural schools for farm workers.
December 27, 2007
Fr. Gendreau is a parish priest in the archdiocese of Montreal and a priest of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross.
He explains the harmonious balance between obedience to his archbishop and the help he receives from Opus Dei in spiritual and doctrinal matters.
November 30, 2007
Being a firefighter can be a path to God. Paul Ybarra is a member of the Los Angeles fire department and tells how he stays close to God through his plan of life.
November 03, 2007
Alexander Zorin, eminent Russian intellectual and poet, and a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, reflects on the teachings of Josemaría Escrivá. During the Soviet era, he discovered a typewritten Russian translation of The Way.
September 22, 2007
Mark Pickup is a disabled man (triplegic) with advanced multiple sclerosis. He is also columnist for the Western Catholic Reporter in Edmonton, Alberta. He tells of his experience of finding out for himself what the message of Opus Dei was all about
September 16, 2007
Stephen Tsang, from Hong Kong, converted to Catholicism while living as a student at Netherhall residence in London.
September 02, 2007
Shahrookh Khambatta Damania tells the story of his conversion in which he crossed many seas, including those of the interior life.
July 17, 2007
In 2002 in Warsaw, on June 26th, Irene Kalpas met Opus Dei "by chance." She was almost 90 years old.
June 07, 2007
Zhanara is from Kazakhstan, but her life took a big turn when she came to Amsterdam. Here she encountered the Catholic faith and has been baptized. Her path to conversion has taught her to open up her mind and her heart.
April 19, 2007
Kathleen McCormick, is a carer, cleaner, grandmother and a Co-operator of Opus Dei. She lives in Glasgow.
March 11, 2007
Ekene Ogbechie is a pharmacist by profession, and a former singer in a band. Currently a student on the MBA Programme at Manchester Business School (United Kingdom), she is a Supernumerary member of Opus Dei.
January 11, 2007
After working daily for a year with Opus Dei members in Tallinn, Estonia, Mari Vivian sent us the following account.
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November 20, 2009