Opus Dei

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http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp83MqjO9tg

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ATHERS DON'T LET YOUR SONS GROW UP TO BE OPUS DEI RECRUITS by John, Opus Dei prospect at age 14, Northeast USA


I would like to relate my story of my brief association with the Opus Dei organization in the United States. As I now approach middle age, I am amazed at how a short, two year association during adolescence could so profoundly impact one's life. To this day, I feel anger towards the organization.

Like some who came to the organization, I along with my fellow male eighth grade graduates of certain local Catholic Grade Schools in the Boston suburbs in the early 1970s was solicited to participate in a program of "Special Studies" on Saturday mornings. Pre-Law , medicine, literature and engineering, I believe were the offered subjects. Nowhere did the name Opus Dei appear on the brochure. With the level of analysis and forethought that is typical of a 14 year old, it seemed like a good idea because: 1) I was academically oriented ; and 2) it was held at the school located next door to the hockey rink, so I could walk from practice without parental supervision. The courses were indeed interesting (dissecting rats, learning the internal systems of mammals, reading Gideon's Trumpet about a landmark US Supreme Court case) and presented with an informality that made regular school seem boring. Following classes, we exited to the playing fields or parking lot for a football, soccer, street hockey or basketball game. We (now) ninth and tenth graders had a great time with the program.

If that was not enough to capture our interest to continue with the Special Studies program, we were allowed to smoke cigarettes. A powerful enticement to a ninth grader of this era. Mixed with the academic and athletic, it was a venue for a kid to pretend that he was independent and grown up, because after all, he was doing all of this without parental supervision. The cool college guys who served as the instructors said that it was ok, so that made it all the more compelling......



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CILICE;a spiked chain worn around the upper thigh for two hours each day, except for Church feast days, Sundays, and certain times of the year. This is perhaps the most shocking of the corporal mortifications, and generally Opus Dei members are extremely hesitant to admit that they use them. It is a painful mortification which leaves small prick holes in the flesh, and makes the Opus Dei members tentative about wearing swim suits wherever non-Opus Dei members may be.





DISCIPLINE;a cord-like whip which resembles macrame, used on the buttocks or back once a week. Opus Dei members must ask permission to use it more often, which many do. The story is often told in Opus Dei that the Founder was so zealous in using the discipline, he splattered the bathroom walls with streaks of blood.

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L'Opus Dei è meno bigotto di quanto si creda, a tratti può persino sembrare laico nei modi. Quel video dà un'idea errata e caricaturale.