Opus Dei

For the feast of Blessed Alvaro on May 12, Bishop Javier Echevarría celebrated a solemn Mass in the basilica of San Eugenio in Rome. Video summary with English subtitles

Full text of the homily of Archbishop Arthur Roche, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, on the occasion of the first feast of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo, 12 May 2015, during a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster.

A newsletter about the beatification of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo in September 2014 in Madrid.

Yiran was born in China, in a city near Shanghai. Reading Scott Hahn's “Rome Sweet Home” gave her the final “push” she needed to decide to be baptized soon.

The stories of Dora del Hoyo and Blessed Alvaro del Portillo - both in process of canonization - are very much connected. Both responded with fidelity to God's call to spread throughout the world the message that all of us can be saints in ordinary life, through ordinary work.

On May 9, in Rome, Bishop Javier Echevarría conferred priestly ordination on 32 faithful of the prelature of Opus Dei. With words from the Prelate's homily.

On May 12th, feast of Blessed Alvaro, the Prelate of Opus Dei will celebrate a Mass in San Eugenio at 7 pm Rome time (1 pm New York time).

Pablo Marti del Moral has a doctorate in Theology from the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce.

English text of the Collect for the Mass of Blessed Alvaro that will be celebrated for the first time on the 12th of May.

Confession is "a tribunal with a heart of mercy," Blessed Alvaro says when speaking about God's readiness to forgive us.