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Dora del Hoyo Alonso was born 11 January 1914, in Boca de Huérgano (León, Spain). Her parents, exemplary Christians, educated here from young so that she could be a good daughter of God.

In Bilbao, on 14 March 1946, she asked admission to Opus Dei. From the first moment, she knew how to correspond to the Divine call with fidelity. The following stood out in her: Eucharistic devotion —the Holy Mass was the center and root of her interior life—, a tender love for the Most Holy Virgin and to St Joseph, and a trusting recourse to her Guardian Angel. On 27 December 1946, by invitation of St Josemaría, she moved to Rome, where she lived until the end of her life.

She knew how to discover the sanctifying value and apostolic meaning of everything that lies hidden in every apparently trivial act: she balanced spirit of service with professional competence. From Rome, she collaborated in the formation of women from all over the world, and contributed to the apostolic work of Opus Dei in all the environments of society.

She died on 10 January 2004. Her mortal remains lie at the Crypt of the Prelatic Church of Holy Mary of Peace, Viale Bruno Buozzi, 75, Rome.

Dora was one of the first 3 Assistant Numeraries to arrive in Rome on December 27, 1946 to give support to the Founder. Along with Julia Bustillo and Rosalia Lopez (Assistant Numeraries) as well as Encarnita Ortega and Dorita Calvo (Numeraries), she suffered –and offered up cheerfully– severe deprivation, given the lack of means during those Roman times…

Here’s an interesting Forum thread on Assistant Numeraries.

A live broadcast of the Priestly ordination of two Associates on 5th September will be available at the BetaFilms site starting at 10AM (Spain time).

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We have put here a collection of screenshots of the broadcast of the Ordination of 32 Priests last May 8th 2010.

• The broadcast is likewise available at the Torreciudad website.
• Don’t fail to sign up for the Torreciudad Facebook group.

We translate here a good Facebook guide we found in opusdeialdia.org:

A) Logging on to Facebook:

On logging on, you’d see your friends’ feeds on your wall.  They show up on the basis of 3 criteria:

• The most recent,
• The most commented,
• Those “liked” by the most people.

Friends’ feeds not meeting these criteria don’t show up, whereas those with most points are shown at the top and stay there for longer. So, if you find one that’s interesting:

(1) “Like” it;

(2) Leave a comment, even just a or “Great news!” (Facebook does not distinguish between a one-word comment and an academic treatise.) Thus, when your friends log into Facebook, those would be the first news they’d see. Also, you make Google show these news higher up in searches, as Google treats each “like” or comment in Facebook more or less like a hit on a news item.

(3) Click on “share”: the item will show up on friends’ walls when they enter Facebook. If many share an item, the news may go around the world in a matter of hours, because “share” means: ‘I want all my friends to see this’.

B) Without using your FB status message bar:

There are activities that automatically generate e-mail message to users, as for example when people change default settings or their profile pics:

(4) Write on someone’s wall, or send a private message (PM): this generates an automatic e-mail to the person, which includes the message. Also, if you write on the wall, anyone who logs in to that profile will be able to read it.

(5) Create groups or pages: For groups with less than 5,000 members, you may send a message to all members of the group. You may use it for notifications or as a newsletter. This mail, besides getting to your FB inbox, appears as notification in people’s e-mails.

FAQ (Frequently Asked Question): Is it better to make a group or a page? Groups enable you to PM all members (if the group stays under 5,000 members) so we’d recommend Groups.

C) Connecting with more people on Facebook: The more people you’re connected to in FB, the greater your influence.  Therefore:

(6) Accept people you don’t know who wish to add you as friend: (There’s a CAVEAT here: We do not recommend this for minors. Before accepting persons unknown to you, it would be good to look at their profiles, to see what kind of person they are, as you might then realise you are not interested in connecting with them.)

(7) Take part in groups or comment on pages: More people will get to know you, and if they like or are interested in what you say, they may add you as a friend. So, you will already be in touch.

(8) A note about your Facebook profile: When someone wants some information about you, they will go to your profile. You might add links to interesting pages there. Also, depending on the information you put there, people will be able to find you through Facebook’s search.

(9) If you have a blog or web page, place your Facebook profile address in a prominent place, so that people may add you.

(10) Add your Facebook link as signature to your e-mails, so it will appear automatically in each e-mail.

Now, using the comments space below, tell us about other methods you use and share with us your tips.

Catholic Daily Indonesia (CDI) is an information and communication forum dedicated to all Indonesian Catholics.  CDI wishes to explore the everyday activities of Catholics in Indonesia, as well as update readers on the latest news relating to the Catholic Church, including the happenings in the various Church institutions.

CDI is run by our friend Widodo Budi, a cooperator of Opus Dei.

CDI is in Facebook. You might want to sign up, here: Catholic Daily Indonesia in Facebook.

Related article:

• Opus Dei in Surabaya, Indonesia.

]]> http://opusdeitoday.org/2010/08/catholic-daily-indonesia/feed/ 2 http://opusdeitoday.org/2010/08/7-helpful-stats-on-social-media-and-the-church/ http://opusdeitoday.org/2010/08/7-helpful-stats-on-social-media-and-the-church/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:31:25 +0000 Admin4 http://opusdeitoday.org/?p=773 Seven Helpful Stats on Social Media and the Church

Matthew Warner, who writes for the National Catholic Register, talks here about the use of social media by Catholics, and gives us statistics that indicate little use of Social Media by Catholic priests, maybe because of a mistaken idea that they have no time to write a blog, or that they will have little effect… But they are wrong, as Matthew tells us.

His last statistic is:

“68% of local church members want to connect with their church via social media. This is the crux of the matter. And this statistic is only rapidly getting bigger and bigger. If you’ve been holding out hoping that this whole social media thing is just a passing fad, it’s time to wake up. Regardless of what you think about social media, how much you like using it, or whatever other hesitations you have about it, people want to connect with their parish using it. You can either help them out. Or you can deny them. Those are your choices.

Much more, parishioners need church leadership to help show them the right way to use social media. They need guidance on how to use it in a healthy way. Bottom line, they are looking for truth online – let’s help them find it.”