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En esta página se ofrecen testimonios de gran valor histórico. Es una recopilación de artículos publicados en la prensa internacional entre los años 1975 (fecha de fallecimiento del fundador del Opus Dei) y 1990, muy cerca ya de su beatificación por Juan Pablo II. Enlaces Romana (Boletín de la Prelatura del Opus Dei) Obras de San Josemaría Escrivá Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer - Fundador del Opus Dei Iniciativas sociales promovidas por personas del Opus Dei Documentos, artículos y testimonios sobre el Opus Dei y su fundador |
Jaime L. Sin, Arzobispo de Manila, en Bulletin Today (Manila), 29.6.76, en Philippines Daily Express (Manila), 23.6.79, en Abc (Madrid), 26.6.85, y en Bulletin Today (Manila), 2.1.86.
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Ii :m1:J1N TODAY. * mfi z, t11~a Opus Dei founder remembered here Bulletin Today Manila 29.6.76 By JAIME CARDINAL L SIN h bas a year sina cod. We discover the la the Ch lost a mast de- visible God in the most vi• voted son in the person of Bible and material things. the fate founder of Opus "There is no other way. DeL 1, $& Josemaria Escri- Either we learn to find our va de Balaguer. I remem- Lord in ordinary, everyber.;ivitö,. What shock and day life, or else we shall grief many received the never find him. That is nev¢ _ pf his death in late why I can tell you that our Jun*-o isst year. But, as age needs to give back to was` fenced by every- matter and to the most trione who knew him or be- vial occurrences and sinefitted from his writings tuations their noble and and 'IesCltings, the pain of original meaning. It needs havil "lost a loved one to restore them to the serwas *teadüy eased by the vice of the Kingdom of teal ütion that another God, to spiritualize them, aoul1 àá gone to the bosom turning them into a means of 19íe ' Heavenly Father. end an occasion for a conThe grief quickly turned sinuous meeting with Jeinto,serene joy in the sus Christ" Irao!1ed a that the loved in my, archdiocese, the one Dd gone to iris eter- silent and highly effective aal reward. work for the good of souls Magi.. Escriva de Bala- being undertaken by mem suer,, reached . especially bers of Opus Dei is a fruit the .of countless men of , the spirit which its and 4turien who spend . founder nurtured and detheir •liye$ in the most or fended from all narrow dinar)! gccupations and forms of "clericalism In professions. For indeed, an interview published Ia the ,meásage of Msgr. Es- palabra (a magazine for criva..dc Balaguer and of priests) in October, 1967, the association be found- he made very clear' the ed is none other than, the rightful autonomy of the universal calling to sane laity: "In 1932, commenttity. Much before the Se- mg for my sons and dough cord Vatican council, this ters in Opus Dei on soms holy priest had already of the aspects and consespoken of the obligation of quences of the special digevery. baptized person to nit) and responsibility seek.sanctity in the midst which Baptism confers of his daily occupations. upon people, i wrote tor. As he said so graphically them in a document, 'The in a homily given on Octo- prejudice that ordinary ber 8, 1967: "1 often said members of the faithful Boned the narrow concepto the university students must limit themselves to tion of the apostolate of and . workers who were helping the clergy in cc- the laity as a pastoral work with me in the thirties •that clesiastical apostolates has ot**flfrom the top they tied to know-how to to be rejected. There is no down? How many people materialize their spiritual reason why the secular have got beyond the prelife.' I wanted to keep apostolate should always vious monolithic' concepthere from the temptation, be a mere participation in Lion of the lay apostolate, so common then and now, the apostolate of the hier- and • understand that it can of living a kind of double , arch). Secular people too and indeed should exist life. On one side, an in- have a duty to do aposto- without the necessity of r1 tenor life, a life of relation late. Not because they re- Bid centralized structures, with God; and on the celve a canonical mission, canonical missions and other, a separate and dis- but because they are part hierarchical ma n d a t e a7 tlnct professional, social of the Church. Their mis- How many people who and family life full of aion , . is fulfilled in their consider the l - city s~~~ small earthly realities." profession, their job, their -longs menus Ecc "No! We cannot lead a family, and among their do not at the same time double life. We cannot be colleagues and friends.' confuse in their minds the like schizophrenics, if we Today after the solemn concept of hierarchy? How , want to be Christians. teachings of Vatican II, it many laymen understand There is just one life, made is unlikely that anyone in that unless they act in tactof flesh and spirit. And it the Church would question ful communion with the is this life width has to be- the orthodoxy of this hierarchy, they have no coy, holy and filled with teaching. But how many áhtd sphere to lk hod people have really soon- apt autonomy?" 71 Opus Dei: opiniones de protagonistas |
