151- JOY

Once our Father, after talking with a Cardinal about some problems in the Church, went into the Oratory.
He remained there for a long time. When he came out he said very happily: my talk with the Cardinal
damaged me a lot; it made me lose my joy. (4-M-CHEE.DOC)

152- JOY
Our Father: "I tried the whole morning to smile, and now I can laugh." (4-M-CHEE.DOC)

153- JOY
A get-together of our Father with old members of the Work: Father, What do you ask of us? "What I ask of
you is to have joy in your hearts, and you will have it if you struggle." (Cn. X-74, p. 67) (4-M-CHEE.DOC)

154- JOY
Once, when our Father was upset, he took a photo of himself to see what his face was like. (4-M-
CHEE.DOC)

155- JOY
When the Father gives the circle, he always comments on the penultimate question of the exam: sadness is
the ally of the enemy. (4-M-CHEE.DOC)

156- JOY

Father, how do you imagine Our Lady? "You will see Her. I imagine Her smiling." (4-M-CHEE.DOC)

157- JOY
I remember a soul who tried to make Her smile telling Her: What an image of You has been painted! What
a Child you have got! (4-M-CHEE.DOC))

158- EUCHARIST
In 1968 our Father, seeing how Our Lord was badly treated in the Eucharist told us to pray or to sing the
Adoro te devote and its later consideration in the mental prayer. In those years the abandonment of Our
Lord in the Eucharist was the pain of our Father. (7-R2-EUC.DOC)

159- EUCHARIST
The Father told the Directors of the Commission in Spain: you do your task with a genuflection well done.
(7-R2-EUC.DOC)

160- EUCHARIST
When the Father was in Japan told our brothers that Our Lord is hidden in the Tabernacle, in darkness,
while He is the light. (7-R2-EUC.DOC)

161- HOLY MASS

Our Father in a get-together in Chilli told a man that tomorrow the intention of his Mass would be the
intention of his wife. At night this person rang to our Father telling him that the intention of his wife was the
intentions of the Father. Our father told him no, because then is a wheel leaving the Mass without intention.
(7-R2-EUC.DOC)

162- THE FATHER

When the Father went to the USA, he met in San Francisco with a numerary that whistled when he was 30
years old and now he was 70 years old. Just when he whistled went to San Francisco and he was there
during many years alone. The Father told him that he and our Father had prayed for him a lot. The Father
had many details of affection with him. Once the Father took his head and put it on his shoulder, while our
brother was telling the Father that he hadn't words to express his feelings. The Father said that he felt the
same and that means that they have the same feeling in their hearts. We have to have the same feelings of
the Father (through the Mass). (7-R2-EUC.DOC)

163- BLESSED EUCHARIST

Paris 28-VI-56: our Father was going to say Mass and when he put the stole on he realised that the white
ribbon which touches the neck was dirty. He took off the ribbon telling our brothers that their may be a lot
of necessities, but with Our Lord we cannot allow these things. That was the same day the cup of tea. (Cn.
82, p. 269) (7-R2-EUC.DOC)

164- BLESSED EUCHARIST

In Venezuela when our Father received a family, they gave him a rose: Father, this is for Our Lord in the
Tabernacle. The Counsellor asked our Father to put the rose near the Tabernacle and our Father said: "No,
I will do it." (Cat. en America III-75, p. 178) (7-R2-EUC.DOC)

165- BLESSED EUCHARIST

Associate who died in Pamplona in the sixties. He was postman, and while he was throwing stones broke his
arm. After 30 days with his arm in plaster, they took off the plaster and it broke again. They took an X-ray
and discovered a sarcoma. So, they had to cut off his arm. Months later, they discover methastasis. This
brother of ours who was giving his life to God, said that before he didn't understand the expression: "He
loved them to the end." But in spite of Jesus being infinite, He loved us to the end because he instituted the
Eucharist. (5-R2-MAS.DOC)

166- HOLY MASS

Our Father could not say Mass in Ecuador, because he was ill. He said to the ecuatorians: I would come
here a hundred times, but I would ask Our Lord not to suffer this sacrifice. Because in the Mass there is the
reason of my life. (5-R2-MAS.DOC)

167- HOLY MASS

Once our Father was going to say Mass and said to D. Javier: Javi, my Mass! (5-R2-MAS.DOC)

168- BLESSED EUCHARIST

Once our Father was looking for the Tabernacle in a Parish. When the Parish Priest pointed out the place,
our Father kneeled down immediately, giving to Our Lord reparation. (5-R2-MAS.DOC)

169- HOLY MASS

Our Father: In the Mass I am Christ, but, Who else? (5-R2-MAS.DOC)

170- BLESSED EUCHARIST

Once our father, just after saying hello to Jesus said: if I am not close to Jesus, what will it be of me? (5-
R2-MAS.DOC)

171- BLSSED EUCHARIST

In the Cortile delle Tartarughe (turtles) there is an inscription in Latin. I'll translate it for you into English, no
worries: "It is not important the owner for his house, but the house for his owner." (5-R2-MAS.DOC)

172- BLESSED EUCHARIST

Once our Father received a young couple and afterwards commented that one thing had impressed him a
lot: in his meeting with the young couple he had observed that they had the whole meeting their hands
together. (5-R2-MAS.DOC)

173- HOLY MASS

When our Father went from Saragosa to Madrid to do his thesis, he had to ask for license to say Mass. In
those days you needed this kind of licence; also, to say Mass or receive Holy Communion you had to fast
from twelve o'clock mid night, both from food and drink. Our Father arrived to Madrid early in the morning
and because he had a strong desire to say Mass, he waited a long time in the episcopal palace until they
gave him the licence. (5-R2-MAS.DOC)

174- HOLY MASS

Our Father in Venezuela: "Father, Have you slept well?" "No, my son, I have slept hardly at all." "Then,
what a long night! Father." "No, my son, it hasn't, because I have prayed a lot." (Cat. in A. III-75, p. 221)

175- HOLY MASS

In a get-together once,our Father stopped talking, and very serious said: Never get used to attend the
Mass. (5-R2-MAS.DOC)

176- HOLY MASS

Our Father at the beginning used to say Mass taking two or three hours. He said: I was ill, not in my head,
but in my heart. His struggle was to say Mass in a shorter time (opposite to what the normal priest should
struggle towards in this area). (5-R2-MAS.DOC)

177- HOLY MASS

Once Our Father was worried because his nose was bleeding, and he had to say Mass. Afterwards said:
once I started the Mass I forgot that I had nose. (5-R2-MAS.DOC)

178- PURGATORY
"We ought to pray the prayer of those forty martyrs ourselves. I have a great devotion to them. I had even
thought of celebrating their feast day in the Work, but we do not have the vocation of martyr... My devotion
to those martyrs refer to their common perseverance, to their fraternal love and to their affection in praying
for one another." (Meditation VI-478) (XI-2.DOC)

179- PURGATORY
In St Louis a brother of ours asked to the Father: `What is your best joy?' "When I receive a news that a
child of mine has died being faithful." (Cat. in America 1988, p. 417) (XI-2.DOC)

180- PURGATORY
When our Father was a young priest, in the thirties, the souls of Purgatory used to pull his soutane asking
for help. They knew how holy our Father was, and his power in front of God. (XI-2.DOC)

181- MORTIFICATION
Our Father bought in Argentina a riding whip for himself, because the discipline wasn't strong enough. He
said: this is to ride the donkey. (8-R1-TEM.DOC)

182- MORTIFICATION
A brother of ours went to our Father and told him: "Father, Isidoro hasn't got lining in his overcoat." Our
Father answered him: "I know it and God knows it also." (8-R1-TEM.DOC)

183- MORTIFICATION
Our Father in a get-together in Brazil: "You are making me change. I went to drink a glass of water and
there were some biscuits and I have eaten some." (Cat. in America I-74, p. 165) (8-R1-TEM.DOC)

184- MORTIFICATION
Our Father used to sit on the edge of his chair. The Father reading our Father's notes discovered that he
didn't like to write standing up; he did so as a mortification. (8-R1-TEM.DOC)
185- ANGEL
A military man told our Father: Father I imagine my Guardian Angel as a general; what about you? "A
friend, a companion. A guide." (Cn. 74, p. 507) (X-2-GUAR.DOC)

186- ANGEL
In the hall of Villa Tevere, there is a statue of an Angel with the shield of The Work in his hands. The Father
says hello to this angel, and he was telling us that he doesn't know if the angel of the Work is the same as
the Angel of the house, but he prays twice. (Cfr. Cn. X-79, p. 78) (X-2-GUAR.DOC)

187- ANGEL
From the Father: in the early years, our Father "did not have any money, because he had spent what he
had on apostolate. He could not even have his watch repaired, for example, though he needed it to be on
time at different places in Madrid where he carried out his work for souls. Then he would address his
guardian angel and ask him to fix his watch. And, `without miracles', the watch would start, the Father
says. For this reason the Father began to call his guardian angel `the watchmaker." (Meditations VI-469)
(X-2-GUAR.DOC)

188- ANGEL
When our Father saw the new crib in the lounge room of the house of Vicolo, he was very sad because
there were few Angels. They bought many Angels, and put them there, even though they didn't have the
same style. (X-2-GUAR.DOC)

189- LITTLE THINGS

In Rome, in the Pensionato, the people in charge of the oratory, had to tidy it up quickly, to be able to take
breakfast and go to class. Once our Father called them because the candles were bent: What a little love of
God you have! (7-R1-LIT.DOC)

190- LITTLE THINGS

D. Javier: "there were my first years in Rome, and maybe because I was young, I used to close the doors
with little carelessness. Some time passed before the Father, clearly and with a lot of affection, told me: If
you make an effort to say an aspiration when you close the door, you wont make noise, you won't break the
doors, and (smiling) we will live with more peace." (7-R1-LIT.DOC)

191- LITTLE THINGS

Advice from our Father to the priests in Yauyos: You have to shave every day; because if you don't do this
you will leave other more important details. (7-R1-LIT.DOC)

192- LITTLE THINGS

After the consecration of the altar in Moncloa, our Father was saying a few words to those present; the
words were very nice. Suddenly he stopped, turned around and told the architect who had helped him in
the ceremony: if you don't clean the altar, the cement will dry and later on nobody will be able to clean it.
We have to be in the earthly things, Haven't we? (Cn. X-74, p. 96) (7-R1-LIT.DOC)

193- LITTLE THINGS

Once our Father celebrated Mass at midnight, and afterwards, seeming serious, he went out without get-
together. Later on they realised that our Father was upset because the arm of the crucifix in the altar wasn't
glued to the cross, (7-R1-LIT.DOC)

194- LITTLE THINGS

The marble floor in the oratory of the General council was badly built, and our Father told the company to
make it again, because he couldn't pray there with something badly done between him and Our Lord. (7-
R1-LIT.DOC)

195- LITTLE THINGS

Our Father was going to live in a centre during some days. Our brothers worked there during a week to get
the house OK. When our Father arrived, from the door to the lounge room he went saying all the details
that weren't fixed properly. When they arrived to the lounge room, a brother of ours, who was working
there the whole week explained to our Father his feelings. Our Father told him: no worries, Our Lord gave
me a special grace to see small details and teach them to you. (7-R1-LIT.DOC)

196- LITTLE THINGS

A brother of ours counted 14 times that our Father changed his soutane in one day to put on another
soutane better to receive guests. (7-R1-LIT.DOC)

197- LITTLE THINGS

The doctor of our Father, D. Jose Luis Pastor, says that once our father discovered that he needed glasses
while he was looking at the thermometer. (7-R1-LIT.DOC)

198- LITTLE THINGS

In Rome in the Architects room they put in air conditioning to be able to work with the plans in summer
without perspiring over them. They put the machine in a window, but because it wasn't big enough, they
put paper in the joints. When our father saw it, took off the paper saying: "This is not Opus Dei." (7-R1-
LIT.DOC)

199- LITTLE THINGS

In Rome there is a job to clean underneath the window edges, to avoid when it rain, the water slip on the
walls. (7-R1-LIT.DOC)

200- DEATH
A numerary priest was giving a meditation about death and the devil, and the door began to open making a
noise. A big black dog came into the oratory, lying down in front of the meditation table. The priest said in a
soft voice: this wasn't prepared. Some of the fellows never came back. (XI-DEATH.DOC)