Phase 3 (in progress) consists in a new Monastery complex for the Priests and Brothers. Phase 2 (complete!) entailed the Sisters’ Convent, with space for 12 Sisters and 2 guests, and all the necessary rooms for community life. The Priests and Brothers currently live here until their new Monastery can be built. Phase 1 (already complete thanks to your generous help!) was the renovation of the future guest house and the addition of a small Chapel. The Order purchased a property in the Diocese of Steubenville and moved to temporary housing in 2015. A group of the Sisters came over to help the Priests with the growing apostolate in 1999. Through retreats and parish missions, the priests of the Opus Angelorum lead the faithful to a more conscious collaboration with the holy angels in daily life for their own personal sanctification, the salvation of souls and the sanctification of priests.Īlthough the Order and the Sisters of the Holy Cross have had a presence in the United States since 1979 through Opus Angelorum missions and retreats, community life for the Priests was first established at a parish in Detroit in 1995. In his second talk he stated: “The Church believes that she renders a great service to man when she proposes sincerely the totality of the truth about God, the Creator, and also about the angels” (General Audience, August 6, 1986). Pope John Paul II gave six Catechesis on the angels at St. God willing, you will spend an eternity of joy with the angels learn to get to know them now!” They have the task of watching over you all, so that you do not stray away from Christ, your Lord.”Īt the end of the audience he admonished the faithful: “Have a familiar relationship with the angels, whose constant care is directed towards your salvation and holiness. The angels are glorious, pure and splendid, but they have been given to us as companions along the way of life. In an address to American pilgrims on October 3, 1958, Pope Pius XII reminded them that our lives are surrounded by the holy angels: “Each one of us, even the poorest of the poor, has angels watching over him. Yet how much more progress we could make in our spiritual life if we looked more often to him who was given to us specifically as a “shepherd leading to life”! Most Catholics know little about the holy angels except for the prayer, Angel of God, My Guardian Dear. “Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life” (CCC 336).
The holy angels are powerful spirits present among us, “sent to serve those who are to inherit salvation” (Heb 1:14). From there they will also go out to serve in missions, retreats and family apostolates. The project includes the National Opus Angelorum Center, a center of spiritual instruction, Adoration and prayer for priests–open for all who wish to come. This will serve as home-base for both communities, where they pray and intercede for the Church and direct the Opus Angelorum apostolate. In eastern Ohio, the Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Cross and the Sisters of the Holy Cross are building a house of Adoration and prayer for priests.
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