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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 |
Gaetano Alibrandi, Arzobispo titular de Binda, Nuncio Apostólico en Irlanda, en The Furrow (Dublín), 12.78, y en Intercom (Dublín), 2.89.
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The Furrow Volume 29 Number 12 December 1978 Dublin (IRELAND) Opus Dei. 50 Years o Service to the Church +Gaetano Alibrandi This year the international Catholic association Opus Dei celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. It was born in the mind and heart - full' of noble and far-seeing ambitions - of a young secular priest, Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer; and over those fifty years the growth and spread of the association has become enormous. It is now world-wide, and is spreading rays of sanctity throughout the body of the Church. I had the good fortune of meeting Msgr Escrivá on one occasion in 1966. I clearly remember his winning personality. His simplicity, his keen mind and his strength of character impressed me deeply. In the years that followed I came to know him better through his work with which I have had contact for many years in different countries, on both sides of the Atlantic. I am happy to say that my first contact with the .apostolates of Opus Dei was here in Ireland, in Nullamore University Residence in Dublin, during the years 1954-56. However, it was in Mexico, some years later, that 1 was in a position to appreciate, more directly, .the spirit which inspires the members of Opus Dei. Holiness of life, effective apostolate at the different social levels of modern society, a touching and filial love for His Holiness the Pope, loyal adherence to the teaching of the magisterium of the Church, humble cooperation with the hierarchy: these are some of the characteristics of the association inspired by the great heart of Msgr Escrivá. Having given the matter some consideration, I do not think I exaggerate when I suggest that Msgr Escrivá is for the twentieth century what Francis of Assisi and Domino Guzman were for the twelfth century, and Ignatius of Loyola was for the sixteenth. In the past, whenever the Church seemed about to be shipwrecked in the stormy seas of heresy, whenever hell itself seemed to have broken loose, contaminating the purity of Christ's teaching, on these occasions the Holy Spirit has always raised up men who became the bulwark and the defence of the Church and the papacy. In our era, when politicall and intellectual movements of different types are subtly and treacherously attempting to undermine the solid structure of the whole Church, the united and consoling strength of the members of Opus Dei gives reason for hope and encouragement. Following the guidelines given them by their founder, they dispel the darkness of error with the light of Christ, they drown out class hatred and social conflict with the love of Christ, and they undo deceit and falsehood with the truth of Christ. The epitaph on the tomb of Msgr Josemaria Escrivá in the crypt of the oratory of Our Lady of Peace, Viale Bruno Buozzi, in Rome, reads simply: `The Father'. Yet, in a certain sense, these two words sum up his entire life as a priest and as a shepherd of souls, and they also inspire his many thousands of sons and daughters throughout the world to follow his saintly example. The Most Reverend Gaetano Alibrandi is Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland. Address: 183 Navan Road, Dublin 7. 80 Opus Dei: opiniones de protagonistas |
