Tabgha: the Church of the Multiplication

Footprints of our Faith In the Holy Land the name Tabgha is given to a district about three kilometers from Capernaum, extending inland from the shore of Lake Gennesareth. More specifically, it denotes a small part of this district: the place where our Lord multiplied five [...]
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Faith and Life in St Josemaria Escriva

For the Year of Faith we publish an article by Giulio Maspero, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, forthcoming in no. 55 of Romana, Bulletin of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. Download the full text of the article in PDF here 1. Introduction: [...]
Tags: Passionately Loving the World, Faith, Unity of life, Josemaria Escriva, Year of Faith

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Is “God” an unknown word?

This conference presentation on “Communicating Christian identity today” was delivered by theologian Jutta Burggraf at the conference “Church and communication, identity and dialogue”, held at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome on April 27, 2010, seven months before her death. I would like [...]
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Mount Carmel and the Stella Maris Church

In the Footprints of our Faith Jesus our Lord traveled through many towns and villages of Palestine during the three years of his public life, announcing the Kingdom of God. He exercised his ministry mainly around Lake Genesareth, in Jerusalem, and journeying between those two points, [...]
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Lake Genesaret and Tabgha: the Church of the Primacy of St Peter

In the footprints of our Faith Few places in the Holy Land are so directly linked to the New Testament as Lake Gennesaret (Genesareth), also known as the Sea of Galilee and Lake Tiberias. In other places, two thousand years of history have brought dramatic changes [...]
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A village named Emmaus

In the footprints of our Faith Christ’s resurrection in the early hours of Sunday morning is a fact that the Gospels state clearly and firmly. The first testimonies to the fact of the empty tomb were offered by the holy women and the Apostles Peter and [...]
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The Temple at Jerusalem

In the footprints of our Faith “When the time came for the mother’s purification, according to the law of Moses, they took the Child to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord” (cf. Holy Rosary, fourth joyful mystery). For Christians Jerusalem, the Holy City, holds [...]
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Ten keys for communicating faith

Passing on the faith is a very long-standing issue, one that has been present throughout the two-thousand-year history of the Christian community. The Church has always seen herself as a messenger, entrusted with news that has been revealed to her and is worth passing on. [...]
Tags: Faith, Evangelization, Mission, Communication

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Homily given by the Prelate of Opus Dei for the feast-day of St Josemaria Escriva, 2011

Dear brothers and sisters, We have anticipated by one day the celebration of the liturgical feast of St Josemaria, because tomorrow, the anniversary of the day he went to Heaven, coincides this year with the feast of Corpus Christi. However, this circumstance can help us to [...]
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A faithful man

Alvaro del Portillo, St Josemaría’s first successor at the head of Opus Dei, was born March 11, 1914. A “good and faithful servant” – words of Jesus Christ in the Gospel, that Pope John Paul II applied to Bishop Alvaro del Portillo. Bishop Javier Echevarria says: [...]
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