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Listening to St. Josemaria in English

A US website offers CDs and MP3s of St Josemaria’s works as well as the Gospels and much more – and it all started from tackling a personal problem head-on.

News

Students pitch in to help Haiti rebuild

Students from Trinidad & Tobago, on North Hall’s Summer 2010 Haiti Outreach Program, spent a week on reconstruction work in Haiti, devastated after January’s earthquake.

Readers write

Not just a job

The prayer-card of Saint Josemaria has changed my life completely. Because I have him with me, I feel secure and firm in life. Everything began at my local church, when the priest, who is a good friend of mine, put some prayer-cards on a table by the door.

John Olokuru, Kenya

The origin of Strathmore University was when St Josemaria sent people of Opus Dei to Kenya to begin a multiracial educational project, open to everyone in Kenya – Europeans, Asians and Africans – so that all of them could have an equal chance of education.

Articles and studies

Seeking God through ordinary work

John Paul I was elected Pope on 26/08/1978 and instantly gained everyone’s affection. A few months before his election he wrote an article analyzing some aspects of St Josemaria’s teachings.

Writings

Holy Rosary

One December morning in 1931, Fr. Josemaría dashed off this small book in one sitting, just after celebrating Mass. He poured into these pages an example of his way of meditating the mysteries of the life of Jesus and Mary, and of reciting the Rosary.

South London, UK

Baytree Centre

A women’s centre providing education and training for immigrants in South London. It is this firmly Christian conviction of the people who work in Baytree that leads them to appreciate the value of each person, over and above any racial or social difference.

Saint Josemaria has stayed with us

Thirty-six years ago, on June 26, 1974, Saint Josemaria said in the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires: “I’m going away, but I’ll come back, and what’s more, I’ll stay.” This year, St Michael’s Cathedral in the center of Buenos Aires, has seen one way in which this promise has come true.

From Rome

Pope begins a cathequesis on the rol of women in the church

At the General Audience, Benedict XVI focused his weekly catechesis on the German Saint Hildegard of Bingen. In recent months, the Pope has spoken about a number of Saints from the Middle Ages. Now he is looking at prominent women of that historical period who are Saints.