Madrid and St Josemaria

For St Josemaria, Madrid was the place where he found God’s will for his life. Below are the summaries of four suggested tours, which focus on significant episodes in his life and message, including divine sonship, the sanctification of work, and apostolate. Finally there is [...]
Tags: Youth, Madrid, Josemaria Escriva

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A close-up portrait

What was St Josemaria Escriva like? A new book, Dios y Audacia (“God and Daring”) by Cardinal Julian Herranz, offers a fresh, close look at the man that many people call the “patron saint of ordinary life”, or the “patron saint of work”. Cardinal Herranz says, [...]
Tags: Youth, books, Daring, God

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Giving some time, gaining a treasure

St. Josemaría told us that Opus Dei began among the poor and the sick, among generous souls in hospital wards whose condition brought them close to the heart of God. The girls at Eremeran Hills Club in Sydney want to go back to these roots making [...]
Tags: Youth, Solidarity, Australia

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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’s capital, Port au Prince, devastated after January’s earthquake. Port au Prince, and especially the downtown area and the surroundings, was devastated by the earthquake [...]
Tags: Youth, Solidarity, University, Trinidad and Tobago

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Dubbo Service Project

In a bid to change the world, I participated in a service project to Dubbo, an inland Australian city with a large Indigenous Australian community. Our project was based in one of Dubbo’s less affluent areas at a community centre where we would run a holiday [...]
Tags: Youth, Solidarity, Australia

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Online journal: India Service Project

A group of young Australians and New Zealanders are taking part in the India Service Project in New Delhi, from January – February 2010. In the blog http://indiaserviceproject2010.blogspot.com they recount their daily adventures with beautiful pictures and a good dose of humour. Below is a [...]
Tags: Youth, Solidarity, University

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Shining new light on Opus Dei’s mission

Opus Dei means “work of God’’ in Latin. At the Montrose School in Medfield, it means educating girls to be leaders with “faith, character, and vision,’’ said the independent Catholic institution’s head, Karen E. Bohlin. For Mary Brennan, a Franklin mother of six, it is a [...]
Tags: Education, Youth, school, Women

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How is it possible to suffer so much and still keep smiling?

How is it possible to suffer so much and still keep smiling? The adventure began several months ago when it was confirmed that in July we would be able to participate, from Sweden, in a social project in Udbina, a town located in the region of [...]
Tags: Youth, Solidarity

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UWI students build home
for mom of 5

Source: By CAROL MATROO, Trinidad & Tobago's Newsday A young UWI student learns the rudiments of putting mortar to bricks.... Arlene Elias has been a single mother for the past 17 years. She lived on a lot of land on Green Street in Tunapuna all her [...]
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Students build homes – and a more human society

“A university must educate its students to have a sense of service to society,” said St Josemaria Escriva. In Tunapuna, Trinidad, a group of people ranging from secondary school to university students showed their solidarity with families in difficulties by building them a new house [...]
Tags: Youth, Solidarity, Work