Opus Dei

Dagatan opened in 1988 with 35 students. As of 2003, there were five more family farm schools in the Philippines, offering children of farmers the possibility of alternating studies and field work to help their families improve their economic situation.

Every Sunday at the crack of dawn, scores of indigenous Mazahuas and Otomíes gather at the old hacienda of San José de Toshi to receive medical treatment, participate in a training workshop, pick up a food ration or attend a Christian doctrine class.

University Students have been working for ten years now, in one of the most disadvantaged areas of Manchester. The project consists of several educational programmes of a voluntary nature.

On the evening of Thursday June 26, at St Andrew's Metropolitan Cathedral in Glasgow, Archbishop Mario Conti celebrated the first ever feast day Mass of the newly canonised Saint Josemaria Escriva.

Elisabeth has become a Catholic. She went for a year as an exchange student from Sweden to Cordoba, Spain, and studied at the Zalima High School, an apostolic work of Opus Dei. Now she has returned to her country to study nursing.

Homily for Mass on the Feast of St Josemaría, 26th June 2003, St George’s Cathedral, Southwark.

Homily of Archbishop Conti for Feast of St Josemaría Escrivá, St Andrew's Cathedral, June 26 2003.

An article from the Catholic Herald on the seminars at Netherhall House commemorating the first feast day of St Josemaría.

Two professors and a bishop were the focus of attention during a seminar on Saturday 14 June at Netherhall House, the student residence in Hampstead inspired by St Josemaría Escrivá. The title of the seminar was “St Josemaría – the Saint of ordinary life”, and it was held to commemorate the first feast of the new saint on 26 June 2003.

After praying the Angelus with the faithful present at Castelgandolfo on Sunday, July 13, John Paul II spoke of the future of Europe.