Mons. Fernando Ocáriz, Prelate of Opus Dei, encouraged the members of the Catholic institution to continue praying for their new statutes, and encouraged the formation of its members in view of their next anniversary.
“Let’s continue praying for the work of revision of the statutes, whose final phase – as I already communicated – is in the hands of the Holy See,” said the prelate of Opus Dei in a more recent Message posted on September 20.
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Pope Francis asked Opus Dei to modify his statutes through the document To make a charisma In 2022. After the joint work of the prelature and the Vatican, the Prelate delivered the proposal to the Dicasterio for the clergy in June 2025.
On May 14, less than a week after being elected Successor of San Pedro, Pope Leo XIV received Mons. Ocáriz and talked about the new statutes.
The formation of Opus Dei members
In his last message, Mons. Ocáriz writes about the importance of formation, in view of the next anniversary of Opus Dei that will be held on October 2, to “better serve God, the Church and society.”
“Many times, St. Josemaría explained that all the work of Opus Dei is summarized in training” that must be “human, spiritual, religious, professional and apostolic doctrinal,” writes the prelate.
Mons. Ocáriz emphasizes that the Festival of the Archangel Saints Miguel, Gabriel and Rafael on September 29 also “can help us consider again the ultimate purpose of that formative work: identification with Jesus Christ.”
After pointing out that the means of formation are sustained in the sacraments, prayer and the Gospel, the prelate of Opus Dei highlights the importance of “confronting, in each means of formation, which we hear again with the reality of our life in today, promoting” the illusion of the first time “, as our father suggested.”
“At the same time, as is logical, those who teach these media will try to strive to better transmit the beauty of life with Christ, taking into account people and their circumstances,” he encourages.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.