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PERSONAL TESTIMONIES
April 22, 2013
"The Overriding Message: Start Again"
Clare Czerwinke, a wife and mother living in London, speaks about the need to turn to God for help when we face our own littleness in the struggle for holiness. 
January 09, 2013
Fr. Jim Socias: St. Josemaria told me, love your family very much
Jim Socias, now a priest, recalls the counsel he received from Saint Josemaria after joining Opus Dei. 
January 07, 2013
Ian and Nicola Lewis (with their 9th child due in April) share the joys and struggles of married life and describe the impact of Saint Josemaria’s teachings on their marriage.
January 04, 2013
Luis and Maria decided to adopt Josemaría, a child with Down Syndrome, when they already had seven children in their family. And then Luis was diagnosed with leukemia....
November 13, 2012
Zhonghua Wang: "Thank you, St. Josemaria, for my faith."
Zhonghua Wang is from Beijing and studies in Germany. She expresses gratitude to St. Josemaria for helping her discover the beauty of the Catholic faith. 
September 25, 2012
"I was 29 and had been in prison for two years. One day a Sister of Charity gave me a book called 'Friends of God'... ".
September 21, 2012
Alik and Timur, who are Muslims, and Kami, a Turkish Orthodox, talk about their interaction with Catholics in Nideck, a student residence in Strasbourg run by people of Opus Dei.
August 06, 2012
Joseph Pearce: Robust Christianity
Joseph Pearce, a well-known Catholic writer, speaks about the robust idea of the Christian vocation he found in St. Josemaria's book "The Way." 
August 05, 2012
"Do what you ought and put your heart into it"
Charlotte, an engineering student in Canada, was struck by a point in "The Way": to be a saint, you don't necessarily have to perform great deeds. 
May 30, 2012
In this National Catholic Register interview, Ilyas Khan expresses gratitude to Netherhall House in London for giving him the strong prayer life and intellectual grounding that helped him to convert.
May 11, 2012
The Spring 2012 issue of "Life and Living" (London, UK), contains a review of THE WAY in the section "The book I'll never forget," by Esther Bentley, who first read it over 60 years ago.
March 31, 2012
Raymond Sampietro runs a geriatrics residence in Valladolid, Spain. He says he is grateful for the opportunity to help bring many people closer to God in a decisive moment of their lives.
March 12, 2012
When I was 18, I used to dream about marrying my prince charming. We would have two children, and I would work as a foreign correspondent for a famous magazine. But my little novel turned out a bit differently than I expected….
November 17, 2011
An interview with Janvier Mahougnon Gbenou, who was born in Benin and recently ordained a deacon along with 34 other members of Opus Dei. With video summary of Benedict XVI's visit to Benin.
October 30, 2011
Adrienne Treleaven explains how she met Opus Dei and discovered her vocation as an assistant numerary.
September 22, 2011
During the recent World Youth Day in Spain, 200 confessionals were set up in a famous park in Madrid. Several young Dutch women explain what confession is all about.
August 15, 2011
Françoise, who lives in France and has 7 children, talks about how her vocation to Opus Dei helps her to care for her children and husband.
July 05, 2011
Dony is an Irish sculptor who started a school of arts in Florence. His aim is a revival of Western culture by bringing Christ back into culture.
June 30, 2011
Nic: discovering the real Opus Dei
Nic, a producer in Canada, talks about his discovery of the "real" Opus Dei. 
June 15, 2011
Dagmar: getting to know Opus Dei as a Lutheran
Dagmar, a Lutheran living in Canada, talks about her friendship with people in Opus Dei and getting to know its spirit through the lives they lead (3:02). 
May 31, 2011
Sakura Kawaguchi lives in Nagasaki City. 28 years old, married and with one daughter, she assists Opus Dei and is grateful for the Christian formation that helps keep her faith enkindled.
February 11, 2011
“Father, Can You Hear My Confession?”
Fr. Robert Weatherill, a priest of Opus Dei, talks about his experiences traveling on the train between Rome and Milan (2:36). 
February 01, 2011
Searching for God in Kazakhstan
Pavel Koktishev is a student in Kazakhstan who also works in the field of television and is president of the youth branch of the Green Party (2: 22). 
February 01, 2011
Joana Bouça has two children. Twelve years ago St. Josemaría helped her after a bad accident. More recently she received another favor through his intercession during the birth of her second child.
January 22, 2011
Belisa and Rafael are a Venezuelan couple who recently moved to the United Arab Emirates for their work. Since then, they have had the joy of being able to go to Mass every week.
December 13, 2010
On December 18, in Argentina, Fr. Cesar Molaro, an associate priest of Opus Dei, will celebrate the golden anniversary of his priesthood, along with his twin brother, Raul. With link to Zenit interview.
December 01, 2010
"Lord, Show Me That You Exist"
Candice Leung is from Canada. One day she opened a book written by a priest that one of her teachers had recommended and asked God to show her he exists. It was "The Way" (Video--1:02). 
November 15, 2010
Joaquin Romero has been wheelchair-bound with multiple sclerosis for almost 20 years. But he refuses to give in to pessimism and has no doubt that his disability is “a caress from God.”
October 11, 2010
Laurent and Solange: Our Married Life and Opus Dei
Solange and Laurent are a young married couple from Paris with three small children. Both are members of Opus Dei. In this video they explain how their spiritual life helps to strengthen their love for one another (4:41’). 
August 31, 2010
It was 2004. With only 16 seconds left in our game against Real Madrid the coach finally noticed me. I was 19 at the time and more than a little nervous . . .
August 10, 2010
Dr. Sylvia Sesé is an internist at Monkole Hospital, an apostolic work of Opus Dei in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
July 17, 2010
Josefina Caprile from Argentina is a widow and the mother of eight children. Even so, she manages to write novels. She writes with a basic idea: books have to be interesting or no one will read them.
May 25, 2010
Sergei, a 28-year-old historian, is a Russian Orthodox cooperator of Opus Dei who found St. Josemaría on the Internet in his hometown of Ryazan.
April 30, 2010
Claudia Valbuena never dreamt she would live in a place so far from her native Chile. She arrived in Almaty more than 10 years ago to begin Opus Dei. “Becoming Kazakh” has been a long process, but she already feels half Kazakh…
April 13, 2010
Celina, a 23-year-old Chinese, is studying to be a concert pianist in Austria. After suffering a personal tragedy, she found new friends, and the path to God, in a student residence in Vienna.
March 25, 2010
Mercé is a nurse, although at present her full-time occupation is learning Korean. Along with other women of Opus Dei, she recently moved to Korea to help begin the apostolic work there.
March 08, 2010
Dawn Ribnek is a nurse practitioner in Chicago, Illinois, and a member of Opus Dei. She was on a service project in Haiti when the country was struck by the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010.
February 22, 2010
Finding God in my daily work as an art curator
Maylis is an art curator in France. She tries to speak with God as she works, “like someone in love who works and thinks all the time about the person she loves.” 
January 25, 2010
At 14, while lying under a tree, Ivanna sensed that God was asking her for something. She relates how the example of another woman brought her closer to God.
December 03, 2009
Liliane, a young woman from Cameroon now living in Paris, talks about the challenges her country faces and her life in Opus Dei.
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.
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