Conocer el Opus Dei - AA.VV., 19-29.5.92 (suplementos semanales)

Artículos de la prensa internacional en los años que rodean a la beatificación de Josemaría Escrivá por Juan Pablo II

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AA.VV., 19-29.5.92 (suplementos semanales)

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12 Weékly Edition L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO

N. 20 - 20 May 1992

REGINA CA EL7

Mary accompanied our two new

Blesseds on the path of holiness

on Sunday, 17 May, after the postcommunion prayer of the Mass in which he beatified Mons. Josemar a Escrívá de Balaguer and Sister Josephine Bakhits, the Holy Father invited everyone attending the liturgy to join him in reciting the Regina Cael. Before leading the congregation in the recitation of the Marian prayer for the Easter season, the Pope gave a short address in Italian, as follows, in which he spoke about the role of the Blessed Virgin in the life of the two new Blesseds.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

The time has come to recite the beautiful antiphon "Regina Cseli". It magnificently expresses the joy of the Lord's Mother over the resurrection of her Son, and with her and in her, the Church's joy and ours as well.

Today the Church rejoices with Mary in a particular way, for she sees Blessed Josemaría Escrcivá de. Balaguer and Blessed Josephine Bakhíta raised to the honours of the altar.

The Church rejoices for the two of them, for the fact that they have been joined together in this beatification today in St Peter's Square. It is a meeting which speaks greatly to us and to the whole world.

This brother. and sister of ours in Christ continuously nourished their spiritual life with a fervent and genuine devotion to the Mother of God.

Even in the final moments of his earthly life, Mons. Escrivá gazed intently at the picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe which hung in his room, in order to entrust himself to her motherly intercession and to be accompanied by her as he went to meet God. Similarly, the last words of Sister Bakhíta were an ecstatic invocation to the Blessed Virgin: "The Madonna! The Madonna!", she exclaimed as a smile illumined her face.

That is why their meeting today for this beatification in St Peter's Square says a great deal to the Church.

In the light of their example, we too are invited to look to and call upon Mary especially in this month dedicated to her, in particular, by reciting the Rosary. In this prayer the Blessed Virgin guides our meditation on the principal mysteries of redemption. May Mary's faith, then, be ours as well; may her joy also be ours.

And as she was the "causa nostrae laetitiae", so may we in turn strívé to be Mary's joy, so that we may join her, the Queen of Heaven, our blessed homeland.