A nine-month journey. A master's degree. A baby.
Blessed Alvaro del Portillo has brought us more than one joy, one after another. Thank you, Don Alvaro!
Helping my children at home and with their studies
Online classes: an opportunity to grow in devotion to Don Alvaro
"Freedom grows with love"
In his 20 October general audience, Pope Francis continued his catechesis on Saint Paul's Letter to the Galatians, speaking about the freedom of Christians.
Don Alvaro in times of pandemic
Last night God put in my heart an urgency to write this letter and that is why I got up early today, and here I am writing it. It all started with my son: he had acute asthma and was not responding to any treatment.
A mother's prayer and the intercession of Blessed Alvaro
Something so seemingly simple as transferring to another apartment in some places is not that easy.
A Tumour in the Pancreas
There are occasions in life where reversals in health impose themselves irremediably, but where the family and confidence in God make one see the other side of the problem.
Devotion to Don Alvaro in a Congo prison
Handing out Don Alvaro’s prayer cards in Kinshasa’s central prison (D. R. of the Congo).
The Monthly Intention: Praying All Together
Here is the intention from 2 October 2021 to 2 October 2022, which the Prelate is suggesting to the faithful and friends of Opus Dei.
His name is Álvaro
Life is a gift that comes through the love of parents. But that gift requires efforts, often unexpected and even heroic. Sometimes even the life of the mother and the child on the way hang by a thread.
"Saint Joseph, you do it because I don’t know how to"
During the four months his wife was in the hospital, José Ignacio says that “every day I prayed to Saint Joseph because he had to deal with much more complicated problems and was a strong support for the Holy Family.”