The group comprised 20 men. Bl. Álvaro had arrived on the 29th of August in Torreciudad to spend some time with those being ordained. During his homily, among other things, he said: "My thoughts, more than the usual, go to our beloved founder, who with his exemplary attitude of self-giving towards God, has made possible this what we're now contemplating". Towards the end of the homily, he said: "Allow me now to go, to remember, that 25th of June 1944, when the first three of us were ordained to the priesthood. On that day, our founder commented that, when years had gone by and people asked us what did the father say on that occasion, we should respond that he reminded us the usual: prayer, prayer, prayer; mortification, mortification, mortification; work, work, work. And on this joyful day, under the loving eyes of our Lady of the Angels of Torreciudad, I tell you that the father, in this day when he, for the first time has ordained of group of his children,he would ask for them and for all the faithful of the premature, just one thing: fidelity, fidelity, fidelity."
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