"Each day be conscious of your duty to be a saint. A saint! And that doesn't mean doing strange things. It means a daily struggle in the interior life and in heroically fulfilling your duty right through to the end.”(Saint Josemaría)
During his pastoral trip to the United States and Canada, Monsignor Ocáriz reminds us that the Communion of Saints should be a source of strength for us, and that we can help and sustain the others wherever we are.
Homily of Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz at the Mass for the feast of Saint Josemaría on June 26th, at the Basilica of Saint Eugene in Rome.
Monsignor Ocáriz encourages us to celebrate the solemnities and feasts in June with deep joy and gratitude to God for his immense love.
Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, Prelate of Opus Dei, preached this homily in the Basilica of Saint Eugene at the Mass of Thanksgiving for the Beatification of Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri.
Homily of Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz at the Mass of Thanksgiving for the Beatification of Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri, (Madrid, 19 May 2019. Fifth Sunday of Easter)
Monsignor Ocáriz encourages us to spend this Marian month continually giving thanks to God "for everything, because everything is good," as Saint Josemaria said.
Homily given by Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz on 18 April 2019 in the prelatic church of Our Lady of Peace, in Rome. "We need Christ to definitively heal our own freedom."
In the week before Holy Week, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz invites us, when contemplating Christ on the Cross, to reflect on our personal availability to carry out God's will.
On Saturday, 30 March 2019, in the church where Saint Josemaria was ordained a priest in 1925, the Prelate of Opus Dei celebrated Mass and preached this homily.
The Prelate stresses the need to "sentire cum Ecclesia," "to live fully in harmony with the Church," which is the People of God and the Body of Christ.
Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz stresses the importance of unity with those around us, a unity that, since it is the result of love, "is not uniformity, but communion."
Each year that begins is a new opportunity to renew our struggle to draw closer to God, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz reminds us in his January 9 message.