Opus Dei

Blessed Alvaro del Portillo, St Josemaría's first successor at the head of Opus Dei, was beatified on 27 September 2014. This year being the 10th anniversary of his beatification, we offer one if the texts proposed by the Church for the Liturgy of the Hours for his feast which is celebrated on 12 May.

Blessed Alvaro del Portillo, Saint Josemaría's first successor at the head of Opus Dei, was beatified on 27 September 2014. His feast is celebrated on 12 May, the day on which he made his First Holy Communion at the age of seven in 1921. This Newsletter is entitled “Learning to love in everyday life”.

“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.