2012 Holds Multiple Anniversaries for Opus Dei

By JIM GRAVES, published by National Catholic Register The beginning of each of the past three decades has brought about a significant event for Opus Dei, whose mission is to promote holiness among laypeople as they go about their daily work. In 1982, Pope John Paul II [...]
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The Real St. Josemaria Escriva and the Film Version

John Coverdale knew St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei who is portrayed in the new Roland Joffe film There Be Dragons. Coverdale, a numerary (celibate member) of Opus Dei who teaches law at Seton Hall University, worked in the main office of Opus [...]
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Faith: There Be Dragons: A movie about the power of forgiveness to premiere in Ann Arbor area the weekend of May 6

By Moira Cullen for annarbor.com Every once in a while, a movie comes along which stirs up in its audiences the conviction that they were meant to live extraordinary lives...lives of love, forgiveness, and surpassing beauty. This week’s premier of Roland Joffe’s There Be Dragons promises [...]
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Viewers and reviewers on There Be Dragons

Comments and reactions by people who have watched the Roland Joffé movie There Be Dragons, supplied by Mount Santa Fe Productions. “The striking portrait of an anything-but-plaster saint, There Be Dragons grippingly portrays St. Josemaria Escriva's struggle to establish his innovative spiritual movement and to live [...]
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El Mundo Interview with Charlie Cox

As we look forward to the release of There be Dragons in the United States, the movie has already become the second most viewed movie this year in Spain. Behind the untouchable Torrente, this story related to the founder of the Work has already taken [...]
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“There Be Dragons” Lands U.S. Distribution- Opens May 6, 2011

Joffé’s film is set against the background of the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and the life of a canonised saint, Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei. In this film there is a very open mixture of fact and fiction. ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED DIRECTOR [...]
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TV Programs on Saint Josemaria

The television channel EWTN is showing a number of programs about St. Josemaria around his feastday, June 26. *PASSIONATELY LOVING THE WORLD: ORDINARY AMERICANS LIVING THE SPIRITUALITY OF ST. JOSEMARIA* 0:30 This insightful look at the spirituality of Opus Dei and its Founder Saint Josemaría Escrivá, [...]
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New research on the history of Opus Dei

The fourth number of Studia et Documenta (2010), a journal written mainly in Spanish and Italian about the history of Opus Dei and its founder St Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, has just come out. The theme of one section of this issue is educational initiatives [...]
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Masses of St Josemaria around the world 2010

The feast of Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Founder of Opus Dei, is celebrated in the Catholic Church on June 26. The following are details of Masses of Saint Josemaria which will be said on or around that date in different countries. Confessions will be heard before [...]
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