Opus Dei

From chapter 5.

Bishop Javier Echevarría opened the conference in Rome for the centennial of Alvaro del Portillo’s birth with words of gratitude to Pope Francis on the first anniversary of his election.

"On reaching adolescence children may strongly demand an amount of freedom that at times they aren’t yet ready to manage in a mature way."

The final day in May is the feast of our Lady's visit to her cousin Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist.

Christian tradition is confident that Jesus appeared first to his Mother after rising from the tomb, as a reward for Mary's faith and suffering.

"They were months of quiet work and hardship, spent with nostalgia for their homeland, but also with the joy of seeing Jesus growing up healthy and strong, far from the danger they had left behind."

In this scene of the finding of Jesus in the Temple, Christ prepares his Mother for the mystery of the Redemption.

The series on Mary’s life pauses before the scene in Bethlehem when Wise Men come from the East to adore the Child.

A new episode in the life of our Lady. "And so, it was in Cana of Galilee that Jesus performed the first of the signs by which he manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him" (Jn 2:11).

“Beside the Cross of Jesus were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene” (Jn 19:25).