Opus Dei is a Catholic institution founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá. Its mission is to spread the message that work and the circumstances of everyday life are occasions for growing closer to God, for serving others, and for improving society. http://www.opusdei.ca/sec.php?s=310 http://www.opusdei.org/img/opusdeirss.gif http://www.opusdei.ca/sec.php?s=310 You have to live in harmony with your fellow men and understand them as a brother would. As the Spanish mystic says, you have to put love where there is no love to obtain love. (The Forge, 457) http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12792 http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12792 You who tend to lose heart, I will tell you something that is very consoling: when a person does what he can, God will not deny his grace. Our Lord is a Father, and if, in the silence of his heart, one of his sons says to him: ‘My Father in Heaven, here am I, help me...’ If he goes to the Mother of God, who is our Mother, he will get through. But God is demanding. He asks us to love him truly; he does not want traitors. We must be faithful in this supernatural struggle, which makes us happy on earth by dint of sacrifice. (The Way of the Cross, Tenth Station, 3) http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12791 http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12791 Communion of Saints.--How shall I explain it? You know what blood-transfusions do for the body? Well that is more or less what the Communion of Saints does for the soul. (The Way, 544) http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12790 http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12790 Many years ago now, I saw most clearly a truth which will always be valid: the whole web of society needs to live anew and spread the eternal truths of the Gospel, since it has departed from Christian faith and morals. Children of God at the very heart of that society, of the world, have to let their virtues shine out like lamps in the darkness -- quasi lucernae lucentes in caliginoso loco. (Furrow, 318) http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12679 http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12679 I was telling you that even people who had not received baptism had been moved to say, "I can well understand that saintly souls must be happy, for they look at events with a vision that is above the things of this world. They see things with the eyes of eternity.'' May you not lack that same vision, I added afterwards, so that you can respond to the special love with which the Blessed Trinity has treated you. (The Forge, 1017) http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12678 http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12678 You are salt, apostolic soul. 'Salt is a useful thing', we read in the holy Gospel; but if the salt loses its taste, it is good for nothing, neither for the land nor for the manure heap; it is thrown out as useless. You are salt, apostolic soul. But if you lose your taste... (The Way, 921) http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12677 http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12677 Why don't you give yourself to God once and for all... really..., now? (The Way, 902) http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12676 http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=12676