My vision of the Opus Dei: teachers appear more than mothers
Dear Brothers in Christ, I'm married, are parents of two daughters aged 15 and 11 years, I have 48 years. I am a Catholic and college days did have a certain bias against Opus Dei, I will not deny that circulated comments against the Work, if it was a cult, that if you ate the coconut, that if you took away your freedom and money, that if they were elitist, etc, etc. Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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I befriended a classmate of Opus Dei , died of an asthma attack at 21, and was a true saint of the few I've known. Tried to approach the work but was always my strength, we never lose la amistad que nos unía.
Con el paso de los años me fui replanteando la fe y con ocasión del matrimonio y la paternidad, fui madurando como persona y como cristiano. Volví a reavivar mi fe en Cristo y en su Iglesia, y pertenemos a un movimiento que se llama Familias por el Reino de Cristo, que es la rama familiar del Apostolado de la Oración.
Por distintas circunstancias, mi hija mayor no se adaptada al colegio religioso concertado de monjas, y tras muchos ruegos de ella, nos acercamos a un colegio de educación diferenciada del Opus Dei que es (esto fue nuestra sorpresa) concertado con la Administración, incluso más barato que el anterior. Por supuesto la Quality teaching is, but the best is that you have clear ideas and try to evangelize Christian parents and students, with no additives, dyes, or acidulants.
is not in the nuns' religious school is done, but my impression is that religious education was inadequate because it was under very strategies "ligths" apparently, according to comments made by the nuns themselves, to have children many kinds of parents and realities "family" more frequent and parents would complain if the inks are loaded in this regard. This for Catholic parents who try to be consistent is a fraud. I recall that they offered my wife and I to help catechesis First Communion of our daughter and other children (we have spent many years teaching the Pre-Marital Workshops in our parish. I am particularly Adult Catechetical Diploma, Diploma in Religious Studies and MA in Pastoral Family are the Instituto Juan Pablo II Marriage Monitors & Family and Teen Star), but the nun snapped us we catechist in the parish in the school where she was given catechesis. Anyway.
Well my experience with charter schools and Opus Dei numerary and supernumerary people wearing it is entirely positive. From the Director to all go to a Portera. The parents we feel that we are "someone" and we are not "discriminated" by the fact that we are not involved in education, as I came to tell the teacher Citizenship Education Catholic school (that's another thing to talk aside, because they have other teachers who have to "swallow" and are atheists, but as subsidized school can not fire them and are charged as central ideas in the classroom).
Director of Opus Dei school welcomed us warmly, not only with kindness overdue, has fought for our daughter came into the school, and is now a super happy girl who never stops giving me happiness of outstanding, and personal maturity , soon will make their Confirmation. They talk for parents various subjects including religious because parents are the first catechists of our children, calls us know tutor for us and the difficulties we have in the education of our children, tell us what they do with girls, etc. Once our daughter sprained his foot in a break and took a taxi home the head of studies. These are only a few details.
Following these events I've met more people from the Work, I am attending to release total monthly retreats for men and I meet wonderful people of faith, faithful, responsible, trained and very well balanced. We see love in that school and there are all sorts of girls (even more problematic than in Catholic school) but no sense of order and responsibility and that of being "above" the girls. My daughter tells me that teachers seem more than mothers (many are for real).
Anyway, I do not know what life will be inside of the members of the Work but what comes out of that way of life is love of neighbor and desire to evangelize. I do not feel pressured or caught or anything like that, respect my freedom. My vision is that Opus Dei is that, the work of God , and I am the Opus Dei.
A grateful father to St. Josemaria and children of the Work.
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