And to those who grasp this ideal of holiness, the Work offers the spiritual assistance and training they need to put it into practice." Escrivá summarized Opus Dei's mission as a way of helping ordinary Christians "to understand that their life.
Throughout his life, Escrivá held that the founding of Opus Dei had a supernatural character. He gave the organization the name "Opus Dei", which in Latin means "Work of God", in order to underscore the belief that the organization was not his (Escrivá's) work, but was rather God's work. According to Escrivá, on that day he experienced a vision in which he "saw Opus Dei". Opus Dei was founded by a Catholic priest, Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, on 2 October 1928 in Madrid, Spain. ( September 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources. This article relies too much on references to primary sources. 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. About 70% of Opus Dei members live in their private homes, leading family lives with secular careers, while the other 30% are celibate, of whom the majority live in Opus Dei centers. 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. Īs of 2018, there were 95,318 members of the Prelature: 93,203 lay persons and 2,115 priests. While Opus Dei has met controversies, they remain influential within the Roman Church. John Paul II made it a personal prelature in 1982 by the apostolic constitution Ut sit that is, the jurisdiction of its own bishop covers the persons in Opus Dei wherever they are, rather than geographical dioceses. Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928 by Catholic priest Josemaría Escrivá and was given final Catholic Church approval in 1950 by Pope Pius XII. Opus Dei is Latin for "Work of God" hence the organization is often referred to by members and supporters as the Work. The majority of its membership are lay people the remainder are secular priests under the governance of a prelate elected by specific members and appointed by the Pope. Opus Dei, formally known as the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei ( Latin: Praelatura Sanctae Crucis et Operis Dei), is an institution of the Catholic Church.
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