Alvaro del Portillo: Episode Three
The Saints
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🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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🗺️ Alvaro del Portillo - Episode Three: Spanish Fanatics
Rome. 1946. Alvaro and his team arrive in Rome to a less than friendly welcome. Faithful to the Church in every way, they can’t seem to overcome postwar distrust from the gatekeepers protecting the pope. Now, the gentle and obedient Alvaro must find a way, in charity and love, to win an audience with the pope, and to finally register Opus Dei within the Church.
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Don Alvaro del Portillo dedicated his entire life to serving God and others through his service as a priest. Through his friendship with Saint Josemaria Escriva, he dedicated himself tirelessly to finding Opus Dei’s place within the Church. His example of humility, service, and indefatigable joy teaches listeners how to discover and live holiness in every moment of their lives.
This series contains moments of danger and intensity. Voices are raised in arguments and accusations. An aerial battle scene is depicted. Characters are stranded on a dangerous road at night and must deal with the potential threat of robbers. A character dies of an illness in-scene.
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| 0:00.0 | Rome, |
| 0:01.0 | 1946. |
| 0:03.8 | Alvaro and his team arrive in Rome to a less than friendly welcome. |
| 0:08.4 | Faithful to the church in every way, they can't seem to overcome post-war distrust from |
| 0:13.9 | the gatekeepers protecting the Pope. |
| 0:16.6 | Now, the gentle and obedient Alvaro must find a way in charity and love to win an audience with the Pope |
| 0:24.0 | and to finally register Opus Day within the church. |
| 0:34.7 | The Saints |
| 0:35.9 | Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:39.6 | Alvaro del Portillo. |
| 0:41.6 | Episode three, Spanish Fanatics. |
| 0:45.3 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
| 0:51.3 | Sponsored by Colby Academy. |
| 0:53.8 | Colby's expert advisors and teachers are with you every step of the way to give your children |
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| 1:01.7 | Learn more at the saintspodcast.com slash Colby. |
| 1:09.2 | Don Alvaro, this request for the Holy See's approval is, how can I put this kindly, premature. |
| 1:16.6 | Archbishop Penelli, our founder, Father Hose Maria Escriva first received a light, the vision of Opus Day in 1928. |
| 1:25.6 | Now we must find a structure that really permits us to do something new and unprecedented. |
| 1:31.7 | You've been doing fine work as a diocesan institution confined to Spain. |
| 1:39.3 | Opus Day is important to the life of the church in the modern world. |
| 1:43.2 | Here you find absolute fidelity to the |
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