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Opus Dei (English: Work of God) is an ... Cooperators are not required to be celibate or to adhere to any other special requirements, and are not even required to be ...
Training in Opus Dei is based on the single-sex education model. [citation needed] Members of Opus Dei (numeraries as well as supernumeraries) follow the Opus Dei "Plan of Life"—a daily regimen of prayer, meditation, and religious ceremonies. [16] [17] The specific practices in the "plan of life" are referred to as "norms".
The Liturgy of the Hours (Latin: Liturgia Horarum), Divine Office (Latin: Officium Divinum), or Opus Dei ("Work of God") are a set of Catholic prayers comprising the canonical hours, [a] often also referred to as the breviary, [b] of the Latin Church. The Liturgy of the Hours forms the official set of prayers "marking the hours of each day and ...
This is a list of prominent Opus Dei members. It is intended to include people whose membership in Opus Dei is documented in published sources, and therefore a matter of public record. The names of Opus Dei directors and priests are available in official Catholic journals and Opus Dei's official bulletin, Romana.
St. Josemaría Escrivá founded Opus Dei on October 2, 1928 in Madrid, and lived in Rome since 1946 until his death on June 26, 1975, from where he coordinated the expansion of Opus Dei to other countries. Seeing how his dreams of taking the charism of Opus Dei throughout the world were becoming a reality, Josemaría Escrivá felt the need, on ...
According to the Apostolic Constitution Ut sit issued by John Paul II: “From its beginnings, this (Opus Dei) has in fact striven, not only to illuminate with new lights the mission of the laity in the Church and in society, but also to put it into practice; it has also endeavored to put into practice the teaching of the universal call to sanctity, and to promote at all levels of society the ...
Opus does not establish or even explicitly claim that this network operates on the direct orders of Opus Dei, though it names several numeraries who have worked with Leo and George on various ...
Opus Dei is formally known as the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. Since its establishment, numerous faithful have earned a reputation for holiness and eventually canonized or beatified. The first to reach the glories of the altar was Escrivá, who was canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II .