Why God wanted the Work

Well then, my daughters and sons, as part of God’s providence in caring for his holy Church and keeping the spirit of the Gospel alive, Our Lord has entrusted Opus Dei, since 2 October 1928, with the task of making it clear, of reminding all souls, by the example of your life and your words, that there is a universal call to Christian perfection and that it is possible to follow it.

God wants each of you to try to be holy in your own specific circumstances and position in life: Haec est enim voluntas Dei, sanctificatio vestra (1 Thess 4:3); this is God’s will, your sanctification. This is a sanctity that will often be hidden, without any outward show; everyday, heroic sanctity, so as to co-redeem with Christ, to save souls with him, to put order into all human affairs with him.

God wishes to make use of your personal holiness, which you seek in accordance with the spirit of the Work, to teach everyone, in a simple, specific way, something that you know very well: that all the faithful, incorporated into Christ by baptism, are called to seek the fullness of Christian life.