My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence.

I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.

Today on February 14th we celebrate a double anniversary in the history of Opus Day.

The first one took place in 1930, February 14th, when St.

Jose Maria saw during Mass that our Lord wanted him to begin his work with women.

And so he did.

And the second anniversary is February 14,

1943, when St.

Jose Maria founded the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross

to be able to incarnate priests in the work of Opus Day.

And since then, we have had the collaboration and the complementarity of men and women, priests and laity under one governance of Opus Day and a single mission to proclaim the universal call to holiness and to proclaim this message that

we can all be saints in the middle of the world by living out our duties, carrying out

everything that we ought to do in our profession, in our family life,

in our relationships in society, in the responsibilities that we have incurred because of our state in life,

that all those things could be offered up as a sacrifice to our Lord.

Well, today I wanted to pray about the not these historical moments for which we are very grateful,

but rather with the Mass that has been chosen to show our gratitude to our Lord for these great moments,

which is the Mass of Mary, the Mother of Fairst Love.

So on February 14th, everyone in Opus Day celebrates this special feast with this mass, with this invocation to our lady, called the mother of fairest love.

You may be wondering what fairest love means.

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