Opus Dei: A Pathway to Holiness

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

Spirituality, St. Josemaria Escriva, Christianity, Christian, Gospel, Catholic, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Opus Dei

4.9 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ ? minutes

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October 2 marks the anniversary of the founding of Opus Dei by St. Josemaria Escriva in 1928. St. Josemaria saw and understood that the laity, not only priests and religious, are called by God to a life of holiness through their work, family, and personal interests, married or single. He set out to found Opus Dei as a means to offer a spirituality for the laity and the means to help them persevere in their calling to live and work as one more in the world. In this podcast, Fr. Javier del Cas...

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0:00.0	Let us begin this talk with a Hail Mary.
0:04.0	Hail Mary full of grace.
0:05.0	The Lord is with the blessed our thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
0:09.0	Jesus.
0:10.0	Holy Mary, Mother of God.
0:11.0	Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.
0:14.0	Amen.
0:16.0	Well, in this talk, I would like to talk about the institution of Opus Day,
0:25.5	because a lot of people have been asking questions at the San Joseomerser Institute,
0:30.7	people who listen to the meditations, to the podcasts,
0:33.9	and they're actually wanting to know more about Opus Day and its spirituality and its mission.
0:41.3	And so today let us talk about all that.
0:47.3	Well, Opus Day was founded by St. Jose Maria in 1928 on October 2nd, the Feast of the Guardian Angels, while he was making
0:58.1	a retreat. And as he was on retreat, he was in his bedroom between one talk and another, as he says,
1:06.7	and he was meditating on some notes he had taken, some inspirations that he had had in his prayer
1:13.9	previous to that, and all of a sudden, as he says, he received the illumination of the entire
1:22.1	work, you know, of Opus Day. Opus day means work of God in Latin
1:28.0	San Jose Maria
1:30.3	didn't want to found anything
1:32.5	he he did not want to
1:36.3	and if he did found something
1:38.8	he did not want to even give it a name
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