March 19, 2006
Angela Fortunato: public health administrator talks about finding her vocation
VIDEO: a public health administrator talks about finding her vocation as a numerary, God’s will and freedom, and learning to pray. 
November 20, 2006
Doug Hinderer: corporate executive talks about his life and Opus Dei
VIDEO: a corporate executive talks about growing up, finding Opus Dei, family issues, and misconceptions about Opus Dei. May 30, 2006
Andrea Feehery: working on a hospitality staff
VIDEO: On the hospitality staff at Shellbourne Conference Center in Indiana, Ms. Feehery talks about her work as a numerary assistant, how she joined Opus Dei, and the reactions of her friends. January 25, 2009
"My family is everything to me"
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. 
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.July 10, 2009
A Young Christian in Lebanon
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: Finding God on Google
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 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
"It was as though a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders"
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
Neil Guo: Chinese student talks about his conversion to Catholicism
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
“Marriage is our Path to Heaven”
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.
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