Letter from the Prelate (May 2013)In this month dedicated to Mary, we should be "led by the hand of our Lady, our Mother, who always brings us to her Son, and through him and with him, to the Holy Spirit and to God the Father." |
Letter from the Prelate (April 2013)The Prelate reflects on the Resurrrection, and asks us to "continue making an effort to bring the charity of Christ, spiritual and material concern for others, to the environment in which each of us works." |
Letter from the Prelate (March 2013)"Let us support with our prayers and sacrifices the task of the cardinals gathered in the conclave to elect the successor of St. Peter, whom we already love with all our soul," the Prelate urges us. |
Letter from the Prelate (February 2013)The Prelate considers the mystery of the Incarnation, and encourages us to contemplate Jesus Christ, "perfect God and perfect Man." |
Letter from the Prelate (January 2013)The Prelate continues his reflections on the Creed in the Year of Faith. Jesus Christ is true God and true man: "by the power of the Holy Spirit he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man.” |
Letter from the Prelate (December 2012)Bishop Javier Echevarría continues his reflections on the Creed during the Year of Faith. This month he considers the words: "I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God...." |
Letter from the Prelate (November 2012)The first in a series of monthly letters in which the Prelate plans to offer reflections on the Creed for the Year of Faith. The November letter considers God Creator and Father. |
Pastoral Letter (29 September 2012)The Prelate of Opus Dei has written an extensive pastoral letter on the Year of Faith and the need to take an active role in the new evangelization. |
Letter from the Prelate (October 2012)The Prelate asks us to give special thanks to God on a new anniversary of the founding of Opus Dei and the 10th anniversary of October 6, 2002, the day John Paul II canonized Saint Josemaria |
Letter from the Prelate (September 2012)“There is no love without suffering—without the suffering of renouncing oneself." The Prelate makes use of these words of Benedict XVI to speak at length about Christ's Cross. |
Letter from the Prelate (August 2012)This month's letter focuses on the feast of our Lady’s Assumption, urging us to contemplate "the beauty of our Mother, taken up by God body and soul to the glory of Heaven." |
Letter from the Prelate (July 2012)“Love the Holy Father a lot. Pray a lot for the Pope. Love him very much, very much!" The Prelate cites these words of St. Josemaria in urging us to pray in a special way for the Pope's intentions. |
Letter from the Prelate (June 2012)The Prelate's letter focuses on the month's many important feasts: "Let us draw close to Him filled with trust especially on the feast of the Sacred Heart, on June 15th, placing ourselves in that Heart opened by a lance on the Cross." |
Letter from the Prelate (May 2012)"The month of May speaks to us above all of our Lady’s continual presence on the path of the Church and of every Catholic," the Prelate tells us in his letter this month. |
Letter from the Prelate (April 2012)In the context of Holy Week, the hundredth anniversary of St. Josemaría's First Holy Communion, on April 23, leads the Prelate to reflect on the meaning of the Eucharist. |
Letter from the Prelate (March 2012)This month's letter focuses on "one of the traditional spiritual works of mercy that St. Josemaría taught us to value and that the Holy Father highlights: the practice of fraternal correction." |
Letter from the Prelate (February 2012)"Charity and humility are closely united; and their mature fruit is unity." The Prelate focuses on the topic of unity in his letter this month. |
Letter from the Prelate (January 2012)The Prelate asks us to give thanks to God for all the gifts we have received during the past year, including "the spiritual fruit of work offered to God and carried out with a spirit of service to souls." |
Letter from the Prelate (December 2011)Citing words of Benedict XVI, the Prelate urges us to prepare very well for Christmas, when, with the incarnation and birth of the Word, “the infinite distance between God and man is overcome." |
Pastoral Letter (October 2, 2011)On the anniversary of Opus Dei's founding, the Prelate has written an extensive pastoral letter on the importance of formation for the spiritual life and the new evangelization. |