Before I forget, thank you Joel (Barrios) for getting this blog site started. Joel also posted a prayer for Anicia and it asks for the intercession of Bishop Alvaro on her behalf. Jimvi wanted me to post an explanation on why....
Bishop Alvaro del Portillo was elected the first successor of St. Josemaria on Sept 15, 1975. He was appointed by Pope John Paul II to be the Prelate of Opus Dei and on Jan 6, 1991 was ordained a bishop.
When he joined Opus Dei in 1935, he lived his vocation to Opus Dei with complete fidelity, through the sanctification of professional work and the fulfillment of everyday duties, and carried out a far reaching apostolate among his fellow students and colleagues at work. Bishop Alvaro del Portillo had a deep sense of divine filiation, a tender devotion to our Lady. His ardent zeal to win souls for Christ was reflected in his episcopal motto: Regnare Christum volumus! We want Christ to reign!
Bishop Alvaro del Portillo died on March 23, 1994. The day of his death, Pope John Paul II went to pray before his mortal remains, which now rest in the crypt of the church of the Prelature, Our Lady of Peace.
On a personal note, Jimvi and I are a witness to his intercession. A good friend of our family was stricken with the same illness as Anicia on April 2008. We just had dinner with him and his wife a month ago and there are no signs that anything ever happened to him just a few months earlier. It is truly a miracle!
Though there is no guaranty that a similar result will come to Anicia, we can only hope and pray. We are to trust in God that His will be done.
That we believe at this moment in Anicia's life, when she can only see one set of footprint in the sand, that Christ is carrying her.
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