The best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code, has brought under scrutiny a powerful and influential movement within the Catholic Church - Opus Dei. This institution, often charged with excessive secrecy, has had many critics. What is Opus Dei? offers a comprehensive profile of Opus Dei, and of its founder, St Josemaria Escriva. In this rigorous and well-documented book, its inspiration, history, sprituality, organisation and activities are all clearly detailed. Here are the answers to so many questions, authoritatively presented. Opus Dei, founded in 1928 by St Josemaria Escriva, proclaims that lay people can and ought to seek holiness in the context of their ordinary life. Through daily work, at home and in the family, men and women can spread the Gospel in the world in which they live. Flourishing both before and since the Second Vatican Council, Opus Dei anticipated what were to be the great pastoral themes of the Church at the beginning of the third millennium.
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This is a basic reference book on Opus Dei covering its history, its spirituality, the founder, and its significance.
I wholeheartedly recommend it to anybody who sincerely wants to find the basic facts about Opus Dei, without any need for rumors, gossip, spectacular revelations....just the plain facts about this Roman Catholic organization.
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Josemaria Escriva was born on 19 January 1902 in Barbastro in Northern Spain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Opus Dei, Second Vatican Council, John Paul, Opus Uei, Pope John, Opus Uci, Jesus Christ, Civil War, University of Navarre, Apostolic Constitution, Pope Paul, Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, Roman Curia, Secular Institutes, Alyaro del Portillo, The Institute, Valle Grande New!
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juridical solution, personal prelatures, apostolic work, universal call Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Opus Dei, Second Vatican Council, John Paul, Opus Uei, Pope John, Opus Uci, Jesus Christ, Civil War, University of Navarre, Apostolic Constitution, Pope Paul, Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, Roman Curia, Secular Institutes, Alyaro del Portillo, The Institute, Valle Grande New!
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- The Canonical Path of Opus Dei by A. Fuenmayor in Back Matter
- Opus Dei in the Church by Pedro Rodriguez in Back Matter
- The Spiritual Exercises (Hodder & Stoughton Christian Classics) on page 27
- Way of the Cross, Centennial Edition by Jose Maria Escriva De Balaguer on page 104
- Opus Dei in the Church by Pedro Rodriguez on page 168, page 172, and page 208
- Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei by Robert Hutchison in Back Matter
- At God's Pace: Josemaria Escriva Founder of Opus Dei by Francois Gondrand in Back Matter
- Making Saints: How The Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes A Saint, Who Doesn'T, And Why by Kenneth L. Woodward in Back Matter
- Opus Dei: Life and Work of Its Founder, Josemaria Escriva by Peter Berglar in Back Matter
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