Sonsoles is a student who went to a catechetical gathering with Bishop Javier Echevarria, Prelate of Opus Dei, at the WYD, August 2011. She asked him, in front of thousands of young people like herself, what "being an apostle" means and how to be one in practice.
- Father, it's so good to have you with us here. I'm Sonsoles, I'm from Madrid.
- Sonsoles? That's the name of a place our Father went to, and he loved the story about "What beautiful eyes, they are suns!" May we all have the eyes of our souls as beautiful as that statue of Our Lady of Sonsoles.
- Father, how can I overcome inertia and fear and be a real one-to-one apostle among my friends, and explain attractively the need we all have to nurture our faith every day?
- Thank you, Father.
- Be courageous, like our Father, who had to leave so many things
but he knew that he wasn't losing but gaining. He was ambitious,
he was very gifted, and his qualities meant he could have done
many great things in this world. God asked him to follow a different path, and he did so, firstly to give glory to God, and secondly for the sake of the souls that were waiting for him. That's why I said, when we said the Angelus, that I remembered our Father, the way he looked like a man in love. Because Christians, those who follow Christ, are not men or women who don't know how to love. Just the reverse: we develop our full potential in love by loving God, and with God, all souls. So I remembered how when he gave Benediction of the Blessed sacrament, he saw "3, 30, 300..." and you all were there. He once told us, "I've suffered a lot, I've had to pray a lot, but I'm not sorry about how much I've suffered, or how much I've had to pray, and if I could start over again I'd do the same or better, with God's help." So, my daughter, our Lord is breathing down your neck, saying "Don't be afraid," don't be afraid to commit yourself, to be a Christian, and if necessary, to give your life to following what God is asking of you. God bless you.
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- Father, it's so good to have you with us here. I'm Sonsoles, I'm from Madrid.
- Sonsoles? That's the name of a place our Father went to, and he loved the story about "What beautiful eyes, they are suns!" May we all have the eyes of our souls as beautiful as that statue of Our Lady of Sonsoles.
- Father, how can I overcome inertia and fear and be a real one-to-one apostle among my friends, and explain attractively the need we all have to nurture our faith every day?
- Thank you, Father.
- Be courageous, like our Father, who had to leave so many things
but he knew that he wasn't losing but gaining. He was ambitious,
he was very gifted, and his qualities meant he could have done
many great things in this world. God asked him to follow a different path, and he did so, firstly to give glory to God, and secondly for the sake of the souls that were waiting for him. That's why I said, when we said the Angelus, that I remembered our Father, the way he looked like a man in love. Because Christians, those who follow Christ, are not men or women who don't know how to love. Just the reverse: we develop our full potential in love by loving God, and with God, all souls. So I remembered how when he gave Benediction of the Blessed sacrament, he saw "3, 30, 300..." and you all were there. He once told us, "I've suffered a lot, I've had to pray a lot, but I'm not sorry about how much I've suffered, or how much I've had to pray, and if I could start over again I'd do the same or better, with God's help." So, my daughter, our Lord is breathing down your neck, saying "Don't be afraid," don't be afraid to commit yourself, to be a Christian, and if necessary, to give your life to following what God is asking of you. God bless you.