Opus Dei: Reality, Experiences and Myths: It is about becoming a saint

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

It is about becoming a saint

By daughterofmary at the Catholic Answers Forum

"The Work" - Opus Dei - is about sanctification in daily life. It is about becoming a saint no matter if you are a priest, sister, nun, mother, wife, fireman, waitress, plumber, etc. Everyone is called to holiness and to respond to grace daily in just one's everyday life. [The writings of St. Josemaria Escriva] will help you to know more about the spirituality of Opus Dei.

I have a friend who is discerning becoming an Opus Dei priest. He is so inspiring and so devout. He is very involved with opus dei. I have only ever met good people that are very solid in their faith when it comes to Opus Dei. I have never encountered anything wrong with them.

By daughterofmary at the Catholic Answers Forum

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God loves us more than all the mothers of the world love their children -- St. Josemaria
Our Lord's words are words of a person in love: "I have called you by your name. You are mine." God, who is beauty and greatness and wisdom, declares that we are his, that we have been chosen as the object of his infinite love. -- St. Josemaria
St. Josemaria is a precursor of Vatican II in proposing the universal call to holiness. -- Pope Francis
Opus Dei is the surprising union between absolute fidelity to theChurch and unconditional openness to the challenges of this world --Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
Escriva is a revolutionary priest vaulting over traditional barriers.He proclaimed not just a spirituality for lay people but a layspirituality -- Cardinal Albino Luciani (John Paul I)
Right from the beginning Opus Dei has anticipated the theology of thelay state of the Second Vatican Council and the post-conciliar period.-- John Paul II
[With Escriva's teaching], it is easier to understand what the Second Vatican Council affirmed: 'there is no question, then, of the Christian message inhibiting men from building up the world ... on the contrary it is an incentive to do these very things' (Vatican II, Gaudium et spes, n. 34). -- John Paul II
For me, Opus Dei represented a reintegration of Christian experience, a recovery of ancient unity... I did not know anyone in the Protestant world who spoke with the Gospel freshness I encountered in the lay and clergy members of Opus Dei. -- Scott Hahn, theologian
Escrivá restored the true concept of Christian freedom...After centuries of Christian spiritualities based on the priority of obedience, Escriva taught that obedience was the consequence and fruit of freedom -- Cornelio Fabro, philosopher
Secularists stigmatize Opus Dei because they cannnot tolerate the return to religion of the secularized society -- Massimo Introvigne, sociologist of religion
Whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple -- Jesus (Luke 14:33)!
Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all for the glory of God. -- St. Paul (1 Cor 10:31)