Opus Dei

On his way to Mexico, Blessed Alvaro, called "Father" for 20 years, stopped in Canada and visited St. Joseph, his father and friend, at St. Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal.

“Illness is not a punishment; it is a caress from God,” Blessed Alvaro del Portillo stressed in 1987, “to draw us to him.” This couple entrusted themselves to Don Alvaro's intercession at a difficult time.

Bishop del Portillo explains to a young deaf woman that sickness is an opportunity to have a deeper interior life.

"Doing apostolate is a question of love" assures Bishop del Portillo in a get-together with Kenian families.

Why do many people visit Africa and then want to stay there? Alvaro del Portillo answers in this short video.