"Ite ad Ioseph"

March 18th, 1935 

Eve of the Feast of St. Joseph: At Ferraz (one of the first centers of Opus Dei, in Spain), they receive a package, delivered by an unidentified man, with all the items they were still missing to finish the Chapel. That same day St. Josemaria had made a list of what they were missing and put it away, commending it to Saint Joseph that a charitable soul would donate it. The doorman could only say that it had been delivered by "a bearded man". As an act of thanksgiving, st. Josemaría decided that the Tabernacles' key should have a medal of Saint Joseph with the words “Ite ad Ioseph”. In a get together, don Alvaro once commented: “I think the bearded man was Mr. Alejandro Guzmán, who used to accompany our father in those dealings through the suburbs of Madrid, visiting the poor.”

God made you like the Father of the King and Lord over his household: pray for us!