‘The Work,’ A Community With Focus On Eucharistic Adoration, Receives Final Approval From Vatican

By AC Wimmer

The Spiritual Family “The Work,” a Catholic community founded in 1938 by Mother Julia Verhaeghe and recognized by St. John Paul II in 2001 as a “family of consecrated life,” has secured definitive approval of its constitutions from the Vatican’s Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies...