All your work is His

By Tricia who lives in the mountains of Southern California:

An Opus Dei Mass is most reverent. An Opus Dei Benediction is beautiful; the music is always superior, never questionable or banal. An Opus Dei confession is careful and always includes sound direction/advice. An Opus Dei retreat takes you where you need to go.

Numeraries are a happy unified army. All Opus Dei priests & numeraries teach what the Catholic Church teaches, which is all I ever want from whoever is teaching Catholic doctrine. They are very disciplined. They are seriously Catholic. Anything done by OD is done well, because they are serious about every work anybody does being done for God--all your work is His. They are thoughtful and generous with their time and themselves to anyone who wants that. But they are very busy; the numeraries lead at least a double life, their professional one where they are out making a salary, and their Center life which is full of Days of Recollections, Retreats, youth camps, annual courses for themselves, visitations, all kinds of formation programs, etc etc etc. That's in California.

In Africa their work includes clinics and schools. They never stop. And they are very happy about their Saint Josemaria Escriva!

I am connected to OD through family, and it has been an extension of family for us.

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