Opus Del members to be ordained

THIR [V-TWO members of Opus Dei were ordained deacons on Sunday, by bishop Juan Larrea of lbarra, Ecuador, in the Basilica of Sant'Eugenio, Rome. Among them, the new deacons represent 17 nationalities.
Together with other deacons, they will be ordained to the priesthood by Pope John Paul in St Peter's on Trinity Sunday, June 6.
Barry Cole, a language teacher front Birkenhead. Merseyside, is one of the new deacons. The first African member of Opus Dei to be ordained, Paul Mimbi, and an Indonesian, Zen Tanfiq, are also among them.
Most of the new deacons are aged between 30 and 40. As well as their ordinary university qualifications, all 32 have already obtained a doctorate in an ecclesiastical subject, or are working towards it. The president General of Opus Dci, Fr Alvaro Del Portillo was present at the ceremony in the Roman parish church that was entrusted to the care of priests of Opus Dei last year.
Opus Dei was founded in 1928 by Mgr Josemaria Escriva, who died in Rome in 1975. It has some 80,000 members worldwide, most of them lay men and women.
The process for Mgr Escriva's beatification has been opened in Rome and (' it nesses to his life are being examined by a tribunal appointed h■ the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints.