"God is not removing you from your environment. He is not taking you away from the world, or from your condition in life, or from your noble human ambitions, or from your professional work ... But he wants you to be a saint - right there!”
(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.
Monsignor Ocáriz encourages us to spend this Marian month continually giving thanks to God "for everything, because everything is good," as Saint Josemaria said.
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.
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."
The formation offered in Opus Dei is also addressed to young people, so that "they may be, now and for the rest of their lives, Christian leaven in families, jobs, and the whole of the immense field of human life in the middle of the world."
"Let us give thanks, because all this comes from Him," the Prelate tells us, recalling recent days spent meeting so many people during his trip to Brazil.
“In the human realm,” Saint Josemaria said, “I want to leave you as an inheritance love for freedom and good humor.” The Prelate invites us to reflect on the gift of freedom, in this letter dated on the Founder's birthday.
