Opus X No 5

[Georgeanna Abson]

Aliterary opus is often a single novel, though the word may sometimes refer to all of a writer's works. But opus normally is used for musical works. Mendelssohn's Opus 90 is his Italian Symphony, for example, and Brahms's Op. 77 is his Violin Concerto. Since many composers' works were never given opus numbers in an orderly way, they now often have catalog numbers assigned by later scholars. So Haydn's Symphony No. 104 is Hob.104 (Hob. is short for Anthony van Hoboken, the cataloger), and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro is K.492 (K. stands for Ludwig Kchel).

The better we can guide and elevate our emotions, the more powerfully we meet the demands of life, the more consciously we can shift our feeling state, and the stronger our relationships and ability to create the life we desire.

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Opus Dei (Work of God) is an institution of the Catholic Church that, by a purported divine inspiration,[2] was founded in Spain in 1928 by Catholic priest Josemara Escriv. Its stated mission is to help its lay and clerical members to seek Christian perfection in their everyday occupations and within their societies. Opus Dei has long attracted significant controversy regarding its political activities and its alleged cult-like practices. One example of an article about the theology of the secularity of the lay faithful has been published in 2005 by the eminent canonist Professor Jorge Miras. [3] Another example is a book published in 1972 by Blessed Alvaro del Portillo.[4] Fr Paul Hayward, of London UK and the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland, has also published in 2013 a more recent consideration of some of these unfolding matters.[5]

Lay people make up the majority of its membership; the remainder are secular priests under the governance of a prelate elected by specific members and appointed by the Pope.[8] Opus Dei is Latin for "Work of God"; hence the organization is often referred to by members and supporters as the Work.[9][10]

As of 2023, there are 95,890 members of the Prelature: 93,784 lay persons and 2,106 priests.[1] These figures do not include the diocesan priest members of Opus Dei's Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, estimated to number 2,000 in the year 2005.[11] Members are located in more than 90 countries.[12] About 70% of Opus Dei members live in their own homes, leading family lives with secular careers,[13][14] while the other 30% are celibate, of whom the majority live in Opus Dei centers. Aside from their personal charity and social work, Opus Dei members organize training in Catholic spirituality applied to daily life; members are involved in running universities, university residences, schools, publishing houses, hospitals, and technical and agricultural training centers.

Opus Dei was founded by Josemara Escriv de Balaguer on 2 October 1928 in Madrid, Spain. According to Escriv, on that day he experienced a vision in which he "saw Opus Dei".[15][16] He gave the organization the name "Opus Dei", which in Latin means "Work of God",[17] in order to underscore the belief that the organization was not his (Escriv's) work, but was rather God's work.[18] Throughout his life, Escriv held that the founding of Opus Dei had a supernatural character.[19] Escriv summarized Opus Dei's mission as a way of helping ordinary Christians "to understand that their life... is a way of holiness and evangelization... And to those who grasp this ideal of holiness, the Work offers the spiritual assistance and training they need to put it into practice."[20]

In 1939, Escriv published The Way, a collection of 999 maxims concerning spirituality for people involved in secular affairs.[23] In the 1940s, Opus Dei found an early critic in the Jesuit Superior General Wlodimir Ledchowski, who told the Vatican that he considered Opus Dei "very dangerous for the Church in Spain," citing its "secretive character" and calling it "a form of Christian Masonry."[24]

In 1975, Escriv died and was succeeded by lvaro del Portillo. In 1982, Opus Dei was made into a personal prelature. This means that Opus Dei is part of the Catholic Church, and the apostolate of the members falls under the direct jurisdiction of the prelate of Opus Dei wherever they are. As to "what the law lays down for all the ordinary faithful", the lay members of Opus Dei, being no different from other Catholics, "continue to be [...] under the jurisdiction of the diocesan bishop", in the words of John Paul II's Apostolic Constitution, Ut Sit.[26]

One-third of the world's bishops sent letters petitioning for the canonization of Escriv.[27] Escriv was beatified in 1992 in the midst of controversy prompted by questions about his suitability for sainthood. In 2002, approximately 300,000 people gathered in St. Peter's Square on the day Pope John Paul II canonized him.[28][29] According to John L. Allen Jr., "Escriv is... venerated by millions".[11]

There are other members whose process of beatification has been opened: Ernesto Cofio, a father of five children and a pioneer in pediatric research in Guatemala;[30] Montserrat Grases, a teenage Catalan student who died of cancer;[31][32] Toni Zweifel, a Swiss engineer;[33][34] Toms Alvira and wife, Paquita Domnguez, a Spanish married couple;[35] Isidoro Zorzano Ledesma, an Argentinian engineer;[36] Dora del Hoyo, a domestic worker;[37] Fr. Jos Mara Hernndez Garnica;[36][38] and Father Jos Luis Mzquiz de Miguel, a Spanish priest who began Opus Dei in the United States.[36]

During that same year, Opus Dei received attention due to the success of the novel The Da Vinci Code, in which both Opus Dei and the Catholic Church itself work against the protagonists. The film version was released globally in May 2006, further polarizing views on the organization.[41]

Javier Echevarra Rodrguez, the second prelate of Opus Dei, died on 12 December 2016,[44] and was succeeded by Fernando Ocriz. He was elected the new prelate of Opus Dei on 23 January 2017, and on the same day was appointed by Pope Francis as such.[45][46]

In 2019, Guadalupe Ortiz de Landzuri, one of the first women who joined Opus Dei, was beatified in Madrid, Spain. She is the first lay faithful, as well as the first woman, in Opus Dei to be beatified.[47]

In 2005, the first publicly-known sexual abuse case of Opus Dei in the US, against C. John McCloskey, was settled for $977,000.[48] Opus Dei publicly acknowledged a sexual abuse case within the organisation for the first time in its history in July 2020, this one involving priest Manuel Cocia in Spain.[49]

On 22 July 2022,[50][51] Pope Francis issued the apostolic letter in the form of a motu proprio Ad charisma tuendum, which seeks to "safeguard the charism," or original foundational spirit; it is "intended to confirm the Prelature of Opus Dei in the authentically charismatic sphere of the Church, specifying its organization in keeping with the witness of the Founder."[7] Among other things, the new disposition decrees that the head of the Opus Dei "shall not be honoured with the episcopal order", but "is granted, by reason of his office, the use of the title of Supernumerary Apostolic Protonotary with the title of Reverend Monsignor and therefore may use the insignia [including heraldic devices] corresponding to this title".[7] It also transfers responsibility for the personal prelature Opus Dei from the Dicastery for Bishops to the Dicastery for the Clergy,[50][51] conforming to the apostolic constitution Praedicate evangelium, and mandates revision of the statutes of the personal prelature to bring them into conformity with these reforms. This reform became effective on 4 August 2022,[51][52][7] and Pope Francis explained that this action was carried out in consultation with canon lawyers of Opus Dei and had no negative connotation for he has very positive sentiments for Opus Dei.[53]

On 8 August 2023 Pope Francis issued a new motu proprio which stated that personal prelatures such as Opus Dei, are "similar to public clerical associations of pontifical law",[54] such as the Community of Saint Martin and the Family of Mary.[55]

Opus Dei is an organization of the Catholic Church. As such, it shares the doctrines of the Catholic Church and has "no other teaching than the teaching of the Magisterium of the Holy See", as per the founder.[56]

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