The Prelate of Opus Dei celebrated two Masses to give thanks to God for his fifty years of priesthood (he was ordained a priest on 15 August 1971), and for the sixtieth anniversary of his joining Opus Dei, on 7 September 1961. The first Mass took place on September 7, and the second on September 8, feast of the birth of our Lady.
At the beginning of both celebrations, Monsignor Mariano Fazio, Auxiliary Vicar of the Prelature, read the letter that Pope Francis had sent to Monsignor Ocáriz.
Letter from Pope Francis