Dedication of a church to St Josemaria in Mexico DF

On July 28 2009 the first church dedicated to St Josemaria in Mexico was consecrated in Santa Fe, Mexico DF. The parish church of St Josemaria will be looked after by priests of the Opus Dei prelature, at the request of Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera. [...]
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Bishop Echevarria’s testimony

Bishop Echevarria met St Josemaria in 1948 and worked closely with him from 1953. In 1994 he succeeded Bishop del Portillo as Prelate of Opus Dei.
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In the Media: A meeting with the Prelate of Opus Dei

September 19, New York Sun Exactly What Is a Religion Of Peace? BY ALICIA COLON When I received the invitation from Opus Dei's communications director to attend a meeting with Prelate Bishop Javier Echevarria, who was visiting from Rome, my first thought was: "Uh oh, they're trying [...]
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August 7: Bishop Javier, Prelate of Opus Dei, celebrates his golden jubilee as a priest

“I cannot fail to recall that a few weeks from now, in August, God willing, I will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood,” said Bishop Javier Echevarria on June 25, in the homily of the Mass he celebrated in Rome for [...]
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The Father’s Shadow

Only hours after his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, God called Bishop Álvaro del Portillo, Prelate of Opus Dei and first successor to its Founder, Saint Josemaría Escrivá, into his presence. A few days later Mgr Flavio Capucci recalled a brief, simple [...]
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Bishop Javier Echevarría, Prelate of Opus Dei, on the First Anniversary of the Canonization of Saint Josemaría. Rome, October 6, 2003

Dear brothers and sisters, A year has gone by since the happy day of the canonization of Saint Josemaría Escrivá. I cannot fail to recall how, in the long months of spiritual preparation for that grace-filled event, my thoughts dwelt especially on one point: that the [...]
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Msgr. Javier Echevarría, Prelate of Opus Dei. Rome, June 26, 2006

Dear brothers and sisters, Ut in gratiarum semper actione maneamus! May we always live in constant thanksgiving! Deo omnis gloria! All the glory to God! These were two of the aspirations that inspired St Josemaría, whose feast we are celebrating today and whose exemplary daily life [...]
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Loving the world in God and for God

Bishop Javier Echevarria’s contribution to a symposium on the history of the Church in Spain and Latin America, held in Seville, Spain, 2002 and entitled “Wtinesses of the 20th century, teachers of the 21st”. Bishop Echevarria, prelate of Opus Dei, said that the seed that [...]
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Bishop Javier Echevarría, Prelate of Opus Dei. Rome, June 26, 2007

Dear brothers and sisters, Nearly five years have now gone by since St Josemaría’s canonization, but the tidal wave of his example and teachings continues to spread around the world. His reputation for holiness keeps reaching new places, awakening in many souls the desire to seek [...]
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Msgr. Javier Echevarría in the Mass in suffrage for Mons. Álvaro Del Portillo. Rome, March17, 2008

Dear brothers and sisters. Today we offer this Eucharistic Sacrifice for the soul of the Servant of God Mons. Álvaro del Portillo, Prelate of Opus Dei, on the fourteenth anniversary of his dies natalis. We do so with six days of anticipation because the 23 of [...]
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