Opus Dei shared a moving video of the ordination, a few days ago, of 20 of his priests in Rome.
The priestly ordination was chaired by Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Divine Cult and the discipline of the Vatican’s sacraments, in the Basilica of San Eugenio in Rome (Italy).
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In the video, the cardinal is heard saying the first names of each of the 20 new presbyters: Vincenzo Affinita and Stefano Bullly (Italy); John Robert Bickford and Robert Alvin Marsland (United States); Daniel Callejo, Ramón Fernández Aparicio, Luis García-Menacho, Enrique Saido Vela, Álvaro Orejana, Antonio Santos García and Gonzalo Silió Pardo (Spain).
The Santiago Fabregat Trueba (Mexico), Pedro Perkins and Santiago Populín Such (Argentina), Cristóbal Vargas Balcells (Chile), Ramón Díaz Perfect (Hungary), Arturo Escamilla Contreras (Australia), José María López-Barajas (Austria), Jose Miguel Marasigan (Philippines) and Ezequiel Mercau (Ireland)
“After a long discernment, from you and from those who have prepared them, the Church now calls them to become presbyters to serve the holy people of God,” says the cardinal in the video.
The new presbyters are now added to the more than 2,100 priests that Opus Dei has, personal prelature that adds, according to Your websitemore than 93,600 people.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.