Opus Dei today

At God’s Pace in Indonesian

Aliza Racelis — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:24:55 +0000

“At God’s Pace” - bahasa Indonesia

Our friend Widodo Budi from Indonesia tells us that the Indonesian edition of “At God’s Pace” is now out. “We wish that from this biography, our apostolate in Indonesia will be more stable and fruitful”, he says.

Our friend Luis Velasquez shares with us the first audiobook (mp3) in English of the meditation “Life in Nazareth” in “In Conversation with God” Thanks, Luis!

Christmas greetings 2011

Aliza Racelis — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:14:24 +0000

Merry Christmas! Happy New Year 2012!

MERRY CHRISTMAS to one and all!

Just a few things:

Sharing here 2 sites from which you can download ebooks in English, shared by Kerry in a comment on the last post:
- http://www.saintsbooks.net/
- http://catholic-books.blogspot.com/
The Merry Christmas post here on opusdeitoday.org last year 2010;
7 new Saints for the Church!
Christmas 2011 in Rome with the Prelate of Opus Dei
A living Nativity Scene on the streets of Rome:

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creoeninternet Congress: Congratulations! Thank you!

Aliza Racelis — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:22:25 +0000

creoeninternet.com Congress a HUGE SUCCESS! Congrats! Thank you to speakers, attendees, staff!

Within a few days, all the presentations (papers, videos) made during the highly successful “Values on the Net” Congress “creoeninternet” held last 11-11-11 in Madrid will be posted on the Congress website. Meanwhile, enjoy viewing the best 250 photos of the Congress on flickr, here

We wish to transmit here what the Congress organizers said after the event: “THANK YOU! Thanks to all of you who have made the Conference possible: staff, speakers, sponsors, collaborators, press, attendees… Thanks to the 400 attendees who came from 15 different countries Thanks to the 330 media people who followed the proceedings online…”

As we await the text and videos of the proceedings, we wish to share here a few snippets of the Conference. In particular, we share here the tweets by and about Jack Valero, Coordinator for Catholic Voices in the U.K. [As hundreds of attendees and online followers of the Congress were tweeting the congress proceedings, Jack Valero was trending in Twitter in Madrid and, afterward, in Spain! ]

“Light, not heat. Witnessing, not winning.” “Clarify, don’t fight.” “Listen to the 10 (opposed to your ideas); but speak to the 80 (who agree).”
“We ought always to seek the meeting point; those things we agree upon.”
“To move others you need to be doing what you are very enthusiastic about.”
“Each controversy is a perfect opportunity to deliver your message.”
“You have to speak with the public, never get angry just because you’ve lost the game.”
“It’s not about surviving the storm, but about how to dance in the water.”

The following is the updated marketing video of the Congress, a few days before 11-11-11:
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You might find this info video of the work of Catholic Voices interesting:

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The Preces of Opus Dei published

Admin4 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:45:03 +0000

Although we have had no specific questions about the “secret” Preces of Opus Dei in the Forum, there are people who have asked us questions about them. But, sorry! There is no secret: The official Opus Dei web page has posted them in their entirety, with some comments .
One less secret about Opus Dei in the “cloud”…
As you will see, the Preces is a prayer members of Opus Dei recite daily. No mystery at all. Sorry for those who love secrets!

You may download them in various formats:

DOCUMENTS: The preces of Opus Dei (.epub format)
PDF: The preces of Opus Dei (.pdf format)
DOCUMENTS: The preces of Opus Dei (.pdb format)

Find an explanation about the Preces in the official Opus Dei web page.

PRECES

Sérviam!

V /. Ad Trinitatem Beatíssimam.

R /. Grátias tibi, Deus, grátias tibi: vera et una Trínitas, una et summa Déitas, sancta et una Unitas.

V /. Ad Iesum Christum Regem.

R /. Dóminus Iudex noster; Dóminus Légifer noster; Dóminus Rex noster. Ipse salvabit nos.

V /. Christe, Fili Dei vivi, miserere nobis.

R /. Christe, Fili Dei vivi, miserere nobis.

V /. Exsurge, Christe, ádiuva nos.

R /. Et líbera nos propter nomen tuum.

V /. Dóminus illuminátio mea et salus mea: quem timebo?

R /. Si consistant adversum me castra, non timebit cor meum; si exsurgat adversum me proélium, in hoc ego sperabo.

V /. Ad Beatam Vírginem Mariam Mediatricem.

R /. Recordare, Virgo Mater Dei, dum stéteris in conspectu Dómini, ut loquaris pro nobis bona.

V /. Ad Sanctum Ioseph Sponsum Beatae Mariae Vírginis.

R /. Fecit te Deus quasi Patrem Regis, et dóminum universae domus eius: ora pro nobis.

V /. Ad Angelos Custodes.

R /. Sancti Angeli Custodes nostri, deféndite nos in proélio ut non pereamus in tremendo iudício.

V /. Ad Sanctum Iosephmariam Conditorem nostrum.

R /. Intercede pro fíliis tuis ut, fideles spirítui Operis Dei, laborem sanctificemus et ánimas Christo lucrifácere quaeramus.

V /. Oremus pro Beatíssimo Papa nostro N.

R /. Dóminus conservet eum, et vivíficet eum, et beatum fáciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in ánimam inimicorum eius.

V /. Oremus et pro Antístite huius dioecesis.

R /. Stet et pascat in fortitúdine tua, Dómine, in sublimitate nóminis tui.

V /. Oremus pro unitate apostolatus.

R /. Ut omnes unum sint, sicut tu Pater in me et ego in te: ut sint unum, sicut et nos unum sumus.

V /. Omne regnum divisum contra se, desolábitur.

R /. Et omnis cívitas vel domus divisa contra se non stabit.

V /. Oremus pro benefactóribus nostris.

R /. Retribúere dignare, Dómine, ómnibus nobis bona faciéntibus propter nomen tuum, vitam aeternam. Amen.

V /. Oremus pro Patre.

R /. Misericórdia Dómini ab aeterno et usque in aeternum super eum: custodit enim Dóminus omnes diligentes se.

V /. Oremus et pro frátribus nostris Operis Dei, vivis atque defunctis.

R /. Salvos fac servos tuos, Deus meus, sperantes in te.

V /. Mitte eis, Dómine, auxílium de sancto.

R /. Et de Sion tuere eos.

V /. Réquiem aeternam dona eis, Dómine.

R /. Et lux perpétua lúceat eis.

V /. Requiescant in pace.

R /. Amen.

V /. Dómine, exaudi orationem meam.

R /. Et clamor meus ad te véniat.

Sacerdos, si Preces moderatur, exsurgit et addit Dóminus vobiscum, stans etiam dum recitat orationem.

V /. Dóminus vobiscum.

R /. Et cum spíritu tuo.

Oremus.

Deus, cui próprium est misereri semper et párcere: súscipe deprecationem nostram. Ure igne Sancti Spíritus renes nostros et cor nostrum, Dómine: ut tibi casto córpore serviamus, et mundo corde placeamus.

Actiones nostras, quaésumus Dómine, aspirando praéveni et adiuvando proséquere: ut cuncta nostra orátio et operátio a te semper incípiat, et per te coepta finiatur. Per Christum Dóminum nostrum.

R/. Amen.

Omnes dicunt:

Gáudium cum pace, emendationem vitae, spátium verae poeniténtiae, grátiam et consolationem Sancti Spíritus atque in Opere Dei perseverántiam, tríbuat nobis Omnípotens et Miséricors Dóminus.

V /. Sancte Míchaël.

R /. Ora pro nobis.

V /. Sancte Gábriel.

R /. Ora pro nobis.

V /. Sancte Ráphaël.

R /. Ora pro nobis.

V /. Sancte Petre.

R /. Ora pro nobis.

V /. Sancte Paule.

R /. Ora pro nobis.

V /. Sancte Ioannes.

R /. Ora pro nobis.

Cum adsit aliquis Sacerdos, dignior ait:

Iube, Domne, benedícere.

Sacerdos benedicit:

Dóminus sit in córdibus vestris, et in lábiis vestris, in nómine Patris + et Fílii et Spíritus Sancti.

R /. Amen.

V /. Pax.

R /. In aeternum.

Pastoral Letter on New Evangelization

Aliza Racelis — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:30:48 +0000

Pastoral Letter from the Prelate on the New Evangelization, dated 2 October 2011

On 2 October 2011, date on which the Prelature commemorated another anniversary of the Foundation of Opus Dei, Msgr. Javier Echevarría issued a Pastoral Letter addressed to the faithful of the Prelature, in which he outlines specific aspects of formation related to their spiritual life and to the new evangelization.

Pope announces a “Year of Faith”

It was in a packed St Peter’s Basilica on Sunday that Pope Benedict XVI declared that the year 2012 to 2013 was to be a “Year of Faith”. The Holy Father made the announcement during his homily at a mass for the New Evangelisation. The Eucharistic celebration marked the conclusion of a meeting organised by Pontifical Council for the New Evangelisation, which the Pope addressed on Saturday.

Speaking about his decision to invoke this “Year of Faith” Pope Benedict said it was “to give new impetus to the mission of the whole Church to lead men out of the desert in which they often find themselves, to the place of life, of friendship with Christ”.

The Pope explained that the year would be “a moment of grace and commitment to a more complete conversion to God, to strengthen our faith in Him and to proclaim Him with joy to the people of our time.”

In order to illustrate the meaning of this “Year of Faith”, the Holy Father said he would prepare a special Apostolic Letter and he informed the congregation present that the year would begin “on 11 October 2012, the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, and would end on 24 November 2013, Solemnity of Christ the King”,.

During the course of his Homily the Holy Father referred back to the meeting of the Pontifical Council saying, he was delighted that this conference had taken place in the month of October, a month of prayer and just one week before the World Mission Sunday.

The Pope underlined that there was no opposition between the mission ad gentes and new evangelization, although he added the latter was very urgent, “especially in traditionally Christian countries, which have become increasingly “indifferent” and “hostile” to the mission of the Church.”

The Pope’s sentiments were echoed by those of the President of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, Archbishop Rino Fisichella in his address to the Holy Father at the start of the celebration. He said, the mission of the church now needed “an additional face, that of the new evangelization, primarily, as he put it, for believers to rediscover the strength to believe and the joy of bearing witness.”

The Pope looked to history, and to the Gospel on Sunday to re-enforce the importance of a New Evangelization. He said “the theology of history was an important, and essential part of the new evangelization, because the men of our time, after the disastrous era of totalitarian empires of the twentieth century, need to find a comprehensive vision of the world and time, a truly free, peaceful vision.”

Turning to the First Letter of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians for inspiration, the Holy Father explained, it demonstrates that in order to be effective, evangelization needs the power of the spirit.

Drawing his homily to a close the Pope Benedict stressed that “the new evangelizers are called to walk in the Path that is Christ, and to make known to others the beauty of the Gospel that gives life”.