How do Cooperators help Opus Dei?
A Christian cannot be satisfied with a job that allows him to maintain his family: the greatness of his heart is going to encourage him to get closer to people in order to help them, by means of charity and justice (St Josemaria). This sense of charity and justice explains the reason behind the educational initiatives, social projects, and cultural centers around the world, which are set up and run by the faithful and Cooperators of the Opus Dei prelature, and others, whether Catholic or not. They all contribute to answering the needs of their own country or environment, without any racial, religious or social discrimination. The help provided by Cooperators can be either spiritual or material, i.e. prayer and, if they wish, material help which may take the form of almsgiving, or spending time or resources helping a particular apostolic work of the prelature. Cooperators who attend the means of formation of the prelature are helped to deepen in their spiritual life and to bear personal
