Opus Dei Quotes

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

Er is altijd wel een procureur of een procureur-generaal te vinden voor wie zijn lidkaart van de loge of van Opus Dei belangrijker is dan zijn geweten.

The Founder of Opus Dei used to say, with such encouraging persuasiveness, that being a Christian comes down to following Christ:

Non possiamo accusare Livio di non essere stato uno storico dei nostri tempi. La sua storia presenta certamente deplorevoli falsificazioni del passato, causate da una non mai abbastanza condannata obbedienza ad un'ideologia; è però un'opera storica, quale i suoi contemporanei la concepivano e quale Livio doveva dare, una volta che si fosse assunto il compito di scriverla: una storia che è opus maxime oratorium.

Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which He looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which He blesses all the world.

Don't let your life be sterile. Be useful. Blaze a trail. Shine forth with the light of your faith and your love. With your apostolic life wipe out the slimy and filthy mark left by the impure sowers of hatred. And light up all the ways of the earth with the fire of Christ that you carry in your heart.

Avrupa Parlamentosu'ndaki İspanyol mebuslarının katıldığı ve Avrupa Parlamentosu Başkanvekili Vidal Quadras'ın yönettiği kapalı toplantıda; "İslam ve Türkiye'de İslam"ı tartışıyoruz. İspanyollara has kibar bir üslup hakim... Ama İspanyol politikacıların ve tarihçi meskeltaşlarımızın bence temel bir yanlışı var; insanlığın kurtuluşunu laiklikte görebiliriz veya aksini düşünebiliriz. Ama İslam'ı sadece bağnazlık, kendi dinini ise bir kültür çevresi ile tarif edip asri medeniyetin öncisi olduğunuzu düşünürseniz ve 20. Yüzyıldaki refahınızı dininizin "esnekliğine"(!) bağlarsanız, tarihi realiteyi inkar etş olursunuz, kavga devam eder. İslam, fundamentalist gruplar üreten bir din dediğiniz zaman, on tane Müslüman fundamentalist grubun bir Katolik Opus Dei Örgütü'nün gücüne ve etkinliğine sahip olmadığını biömeniz gerekir. Katolik toplumların seçkinlerini toplayan; Papalık ve milli hükümetler arasındaki bağları kendine göre yöneten böyle bir kuruluş islam dünyasımda henüz yok; kurulmasına ve gelişmesine biraz da boşuna çalışılıyor. Ortadaki Rabıtatu'l-Alemu'l-İslam gibileri ancak Opus Dei'nin güneşte kurutulmuşu olabilir. Dindar olsın ya da olmasın, kimse kimliğinden fedakarlıkta bulunmak istemez, bulunmasın da zaten. Ama kendi dini kimliği ile övünüp öbürünün kimliğini aşağılamayı ve kendi dininde mistisizm ve akide diye yücelttiği unsurları öbürününkinde tehlikeli yobazlık belirtileri diye yaftalamayı kimse kabul edemez. Bu şartlarda 11 eylül havası da dağılamaz. İslam patriarksl bir din denildi. Hangi semavi din bugünün çağdaş denilen niteliklerine sahip? Bunların hepsi bir laf salatasıdır. 20. Yüzyılın muğlak kavramlarıyla 2 bin yıllık inançları değerlendirmek ne kadar sağlıklı sonuç verir? Engizisyon mahkemeleri çoktan kalktı ama mütekebbir bir akide insanların zihninde yaşıyor ve herkes birbirini itham ediyor.

The current Bishop Prelate of Opus Dei caused a huge outcry in 1997, when he asserted that 90% of disabled children, according to 'scientific research', were born to couples who had 'not entered into marriage in a pure state', and were thus paying for the sinfulness of their parents.

Malo como dominico, falso como jesuita, calculador como arpía del Opus Dei.

Opus Dei non est opus Dei.

La principal característica del Opus Dei no son unas técnicas o métodos de apostolado, ni unas estructuras determinadas, sino un espíritu que lleva precisamente a santificar el trabajo ordinario (Conversaciones, núm. 72).

It would be more accurate to say that human fatherhood is metaphorical, a temporal sign of an eternal reality. God's fatherhood is true fatherhood in the truest sense.

Liberación fueron duramente reprimidos, todo lo contrario ocurrió con el Opus Dei. La polémica organización católica recibió una gracia extraordinaria: su elevación a la categoría de prelatura personal, mediante la cual la Obra quedaba únicamente bajo la autoridad papal —y la divina, se sobreentiende—, algo que causó un gran malestar en todos los sectores de la Iglesia, incluso en la propia

La fuerza y la originalidad con que el fundador del Opus Dei afirma este primado en el orden sobrenatural, es quizá solo comparable a la fuerza y originalidad con que santo Tomás de Aquino había afirmado este primado en el orden natural»[5]

Poate că omul este rău din fire și genele sale, cu trecerea secolelor, s-au modificat în ceva și mai rău...

Toți cei care suferă de complexe de inferioritate au nevoie să se acopere cu autoritarism și să se apere prin amenințare și teroare, dar când cineva ridică vocea și le ține piept, sunt făcuți knock-out, neștiind cum să reacționeze.

The Church has not built up the “Opus Dei” for the pleasure of forming beautiful symbols, choice language, and graceful, stately gestures, but she has done it—in so far as it is not completely devoted to the worship of God—for the sake of our desperate spiritual need. It is to give expression to the events of the Christian’s inner life: the assimilation, through the Holy Ghost, of the life of the creature to the life of God in Christ; the actual and genuine rebirth of the creature into a new existence; the development and nourishment of this life, its stretching forth from God in the Blessed Sacrament and the means of grace, towards God in prayer and sacrifice; and all this in the continual mystic renewal of Christ’s life in the course of the ecclesiastical year. The fulfillment of all these processes by the set forms of language, gesture, and instruments, their revelation, teaching, accomplishment and acceptance by the faithful, together constitute the liturgy. We see, then, that it is primarily concerned with reality, with the approach of a real creature to a real God, and with the profoundly real and serious matter of redemption. There is here no question of creating beauty, but of finding salvation for sin-stricken humanity. Here truth is at stake, and the fate of the soul, and real—yes, ultimately the only real—life. All this it is which must be revealed, expressed, sought after, found, and imparted by every possible means and method; and when this is accomplished, lo! it is turned into beauty.

That's the way it always starts. By the third day of the convention, half of the delegates were having whispered conversations about which of the others were agents of the Knights of Malta or Opus Dei. There was even a rumor (I couldn't get it confirmed) that some of the delegates hired food tasters, gaunt pitiful children from the slums of Naples, even when they traveled to the other end of town for a sandwich.

Despabílate amor Bonjour buon giorno guten morgen despabílate amor y toma nota sólo en el tercer mundo mueren cuarenta mil niños por día en el plácido cielo despejado flotan los bombarderos y los buitres cuatro millones tienen sida la codicia depila la amazonia buenos días good morning despabílate en los ordenadores de la abuela onu no caben más cadáveres de ruanda los fundamentalistas degüellan a extranjeros predica el papa contra los condones havelange estrangula a maradona bonjour monsieur le maire forza italia buon giorno guten morgen ernst junger opus dei buenos días good morning hiroshima despabílate amor que el horror amanece

Wrong. Christ was not our substitute but our representative, and since His saving passion was representative, it doesn't exempt us from suffering but rather endows our suffering with divine power and redemptive value.

God is the eternal Father of Jesus Christ. And God is Father of those who live in Jesus Christ, through baptism.

Modern covenant research, however, showed me something entirely different. An ancient covenant was more than a contract. It was the means by which two unrelated parties struck a family bond. They became siblings, spouses, or parent and child. Marriage was a covenant; adoption was a covenant. With His covenant, then, God was not just laying down a law. He was raising up a family. The inevitable consequence of covenant is divine filiation.

Isn't it true,” St. Josemaria once said, “that you have seen the need to become a soul of prayer, to reach an intimacy with God that leads to divinization? Such is the Christian faith as always understood by souls of prayer.” And as if to prove the “always” part, he goes on to quote St. Clement of Alexandria, who wrote around the year 203 A.D.: “A man becomes God, because he loves whatever God loves.

Yet even more than He made man and woman for the sake of work, He made work for the sake of man and woman— because only through work could they become truly godlike. It's

And on the seventh day God finished His work … and He rested … from all His work which He had done” (Genesis 2:2). Thus, work itself is something divine, something God Himself does. So

Por eso he entendido muy bien aquel amor tan humano y tan divino de Teresa del Niño Jesús, que se conmueve cuando por las páginas de un libro asoma una estampa con la mano herida del Redentor. También a mí me han sucedido cosas de este estilo, que me removieron y me llevaron a la comunión diaria, a la purificación, a la confesión... y a la penitencia

Así te veo, Madre bendita, que, cuando luchamos por servir a Dios, vienes a animarnos a lo largo de esta jornada... A través de tus manos, nos llegan todas las gracias

In effect, as attorney general, Barr, a leading figure in the newly emergent Catholic right—with its ties to Opus Dei, a mysterious fringe sect with roots in fascist Spain—was bringing in a new strain of religious authoritarianism and theocratic nationalism to join forces with Trumpism on their way to collision after collision with the US Constitution. All this in a world of decadence and depravity tied to figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, whose pedophile operation trafficked in underage girls as young as eleven, and also had links to Russian intelligence.

Presentaba las proyecciones de su personalidad y de su ego como manifestaciones de la voluntad divina, tan convencido. ¡Venga a producir más y más voluntad de Dios! El pobre Moisés sólo logró unos rudimentarios grabados en piedra. San Alberto una regla para los carmelitas, que ocupa página y media. San Francisco de Sales unas constituciones un poco más extensas.

Our identification with Christ is a permanent thing; our communion with Christ is as constant as the state of grace in our souls. You and I are the Church; that is our

Penetration was unnecessary, he explained, because the Church was already there—in Catholics who were busy at their work. He told an interviewer: “I hope the time will come when the phrase ‘the Catholics are penetrating all sectors of society’ will go out of circulation because everyone will have realized that it is a clerical expression…. [They] have no need to ‘penetrate’ the temporal sector for the simple reason that they are ordinary citizens, the same as their fellow citizens, and so they are there already.

Opus Dei's authority extends only to the personal spiritual formation of its members.

Thus, the founder of Opus Dei, though he was a priest, did not seek to gather power to the clergy. In fact, he wanted the Catholic laity to discover their own dignity and assume the responsibilities that came with baptism.

The two-tiered spirituality created an artificial separation between the clergy and the laity—and thus between the Church and the world.

In 1965, in the Council's “Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests” (Pres-byterorum ordinis, 10), the Church proposed a new institutional form, called the “personal prelature.” Such an institution could accommodate both clergy and lay members cooperating to accomplish specific pastoral tasks.

St. Josemaria diagnosed this tendency to overwork as a sickness of the spirit. That was before the word “workaholism” was coined. St. Josemaria called the condition “professionalitis”— suggesting a corruption of something good.

St. Augustine once defined peace as “tranquility in order “The plan of life is what finally imposed a spiritual order on my ordinary days. And that order was the necessary precondition of peace.

The little things we do are the building blocks of the big things God has planned, in our lives, in history, and in the spinning out of the cosmos. Indeed, little things matter so much to us because they matter so much to God. That is the plain meaning of Jesus's parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14—31)—a parable of ambition. Twice in that parable Jesus portrays the master (representing God) as saying, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.

Thus, there is a hidden grandeur in the most ordinary things. St. Josemaria saw this, and he had little patience for those would-be saints with romantic inclinations who saw ordinary life as merely an obstacle to true greatness.

Spreading the love of Jesus Christ is a duty of all Christians. We can't keep our faith unless we give it away.

The second-century Letter to Diognetus put it beautifully: “As the soul is in the body, so Christians are in the world. The soul is dispersed through all the members of the body, and Christians are scattered through all the cities of the world…. The invisible soul is guarded by the visible body, and Christians are known indeed to be in the world, but their godliness remains invisible.

One corporate executive faced this spiritual crisis and went on a pilgrimage to Calcutta, India, to seek the advice of Mother Teresa. She spoke sharply with him. She told him to go back home to Wisconsin and be a good CEO so that his company might prosper and keep many people gainfully employed. “Bloom where you're planted,” she told him, so that in Milwaukee the Missionaries of Charity would never find “the poorest of the poor.

Josemaria, in his life and ministry, showed that it is possible for Catholics to have both a priestly soul and a lay mentality. It is possible for both priests and laypeople. He revered the work of religious orders; and their saints, such as St. Ignatius Loyola and St. Therese of Lisieux, had no small influence on his spirituality. For many years his spiritual director was a Jesuit, and the founder trained the first members of Opus Dei with St. Therese's Story of a Soul. We can hear echoes of St. Ignatius's phrase “contemplatives in action” in St. Josemaria's “contemplatives in the middle of the world.” We can hear echoes of St. Therese's “Little Way” in the founder's own emphasis on “little things.” Still, by divine disposition, his ways were distinctively not their ways.

Nevertheless, secularity, like any good thing, can be overdone. In our zeal to laicize our piety, we shouldn't leave people guessing whether we're Christians. That would be every bit as unnatural as wearing a monk's habit over one's work clothes. Our secularity should never lapse into secularism.

the heart of Opus Dei is the Christian experience of divine filiation. God is our Father. We are His children in Christ Jesus, the eternal Son; thus, gathered together around His table, the Church is the family of God on earth, as the Trinity is the Family of God in heaven.

We would have a poor idea of marriage and of human affection if we were to think that love and joy come to an end when faced with such difficulties. It is precisely then that our true sentiments come to the surface. Then the tenderness of a person's gift of himself takes root and shows itself in a true and profound affection that is stronger than death.

God instituted sacrifice not for His own sake but for our sake. The sacrificial law is a means to God's glorious end: it disciplines His people, focusing their attention on worship, gratitude, sorrow for sin, the need for purity, and the necessity of renouncing everything in order to cling to God.

Through Malachi, God chastises them for “thinking that the Lord's table may be despised” (Malachi 1:7). That's strong language, but it rings true. A man who insists that he loves his wife while he lavishes the finest gifts upon his mistress does not truly love his wife.

Driven by petty ambition, we serve only ourselves. St. Josemaria put it well: “Those who are ‘ambitious,’ with small, personal, miserable ambitions, cannot understand that the friends of God should seek to achieve something through a spirit of service and without such'ambition.' “ We should never confuse Christian humility and modesty with a will to underachieve.

Thus, far from thinking that works produced by man's own talent and energy are in opposition to God's power, and that the rational creature exists as a kind of rival to the Creator, Christians are convinced that the triumphs of the human race are a sign of God's grace and the flowering of His own mysterious design.

Late that autumn a Venezuelan attorney, Alberto Jaime Berti, cooperated with Italian magistrates in return for immunity from prosecution on charges that the IOR was at the center of laundering several hundred million dollars through Swiss and Panamanian banks on behalf of a handful of senior Opus Dei officials.72 The Italian media reported that Berti fingered De Bonis as his Vatican Bank connection and produced dozens of documents with the monsignor’s signature. Prosecutors believed that De Bonis had the key to a safe deposit box at Geneva’s Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. It was in that box, said Berti, that a cache of documents laid out exactly how the IOR laundered the money. De Bonis, cloaked by immunity in his Knights of Malta position, denied even knowing Berti.73 The prosecutors, unable to move against him, had to stand down.

Por más querido, amable, cordial y ecuánime que sea un sujeto, si en una reunión del Opus Dei apoya públicamente las relaciones prematrimoniales, perderá de inmediato el “don de gentes”, además de sus credenciales. Entonces, como los humanos somos susceptibles de ofendernos con facilidad, al menos en cuestiones de principios, la honestidad comunicativa creará incomodidad, así se utilice en pequeñas dosis.

Në oqeanin njerzorë Jashta njerëzve që sot takova në Luzern Skaj lumit Rojs,e ishte ditë pazari Tjetër soj njeriut nuk besoj se ka Mes tyne takova kirurgë,astronomë Sharlatana e priftën,magjypë e astrologë, Cinik,sarkastik,satrap e Ku-Klux-Klan, Kriminela e shënjtën,bigot e narkoman, Camorra,Opus Dei e taliban, Tepër shumë asish të dënjë për St. Urban* Mes tyne edhe unë,nji rreshqanor kuptues I pajisun me cogito,me nji homunkulus, Zegjin me vademekum,rezil me vadetekum, Një pikë uji që ka esencën e individit Këtu mes morisë në Oqeanin Njerzorë. *Shënim : St.Urban-i është spital psikiatrik në Zvicër.

When I blessed those three … I saw three hundred, three hundred thousand, thirty million, three billion … white, black, yellow, of all the colors, all the combinations that human love can produce.

it is God Himself who made this possible, by assuming human flesh in Jesus Christ. In doing so, He humanized His divinity, but He also divinized humanity, and thus He sanctified—made holy—everything that fills up a human life: friendship, meals, family, travel, study, and work.

Por eso, invitaba a rezar con paz: «Estoy plenamente seguro de que Tú, Señor, como en otros tiempos has impulsado otras empresas, quieres ahora esta Obra. Estoy también íntimamente persuadido de que tu voluntad es que te sirva en ella. Cumpliendo esa voluntad, ¿qué me importa todo lo demás?»

Sin dejar de poner los pies en la tierra, insistía en que llegarían tiempos de bonanza: «La Obra...; ¿qué es ahora la Obra? Apenas hay nada visible; es verdaderamente el grano de mostaza. Unos pocos hombres, sin prestigio, sin posición económica, sin experiencia, al comienzo de sus vidas casi todos ellos. Pero nosotros sabemos que este grano de mostaza dará lugar en el campo sobrenatural de la Iglesia a un arbusto que cubrirá todo el mundo con su tallo, con sus raíces, con sus ramas, y en el cual buscarán asilo muchas aves viajeras»

«Señor, Tú sostienes en mí la esperanza. Por Ti creo en el porvenir de esta Obra tuya y, concretamente, espero que darás perseverancia a todos mis hijos, de modo que cuando nos reunamos podamos

cantar todos un Te Deum de acción de gracias por esta perseverancia y, quizá, por haber permitido que no solamente perseveren, sino que contagien su ardor a otros»[239].

ahora, Dios mío, junto a la herida humeante de tu pecho; quiero pensar junto a ella en todos mis hijos, en todos los que ahora son miembros vivos de este Cuerpo vivo de tu Obra. Nombrándolos, consideraré sus cualidades, sus virtudes, sus defectos, y luego te suplicaré, empujándolos hacia Ti, uno a uno: “¡Adentro!”. Los meteré dentro de tu Corazón.

En la historia de muchas almas, el primer paso del retorno a la casa del Padre ha brotado de un encuentro con María. Éste es otro motivo más para invocar a la Virgen Santa como “Causa de nuestra alegría”. De Ella nació el Salvador del mundo. A través de Ella se torna al camino que conduce a su Hijo, porque —como recordaba el Fundador del Opus Dei—, “a Jesús siempre se va y se “vuelve” por María”. (Echevarría, 2002, p. 86)

A man, a 'gentleman', ready to compromise would condemn Jesus to death again.