Opus Dei
Religious organization in Rome, Italywww.opusdei.org
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Sep 19, 2026
Conor DonnellyHOST
Even though we might be passing through a great physical or moral difficulty that possibly seems to have no solution.
Conor DonnellyHOST
A lady approached the regional vicar of Opus Dei in Argentina one day to thank him for having given her a prayer card to Saint Josemaria.
Conor DonnellyHOST
He didn't remember that occasion, he didn't remember this lady, but she said, yes, a couple of years ago you saw me on the street and you gave me a prayer card.
Conor DonnellyHOST
At that time my husband was about to divorce me, my children were going through a bad time, I was unemployed, my husband was unemployed, everything was going wrong in my life.
Joseph EvansHOST
We all have a role in his providence, in his care for creation.
Joseph EvansHOST
Of course, we know, particularly through the Spirit of Opus Dei, even more.
Joseph EvansHOST
We understand that work can have a role in the work of redemption, offered to God, sanctified, raised up to the Lord, and become a means of apostolate.
Joseph EvansHOST
It's good that we contemplate the amazing, the multifaceted world of work.
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Joseph EvansHOST
And that's why we try to wake up.
Joseph EvansHOST
We live the heroic minute, getting out of bed immediately as the alarm clock goes.
Joseph EvansHOST
And in Opus Dei, we kiss the floor and say, serve him, I will serve.
Joseph EvansHOST
And we make the morning offering.
ThomasGUEST
I'm sure as you get into the upper levels, that actually becomes more impressioned.
ThomasGUEST
Which, long story, I'll just skip to this point, but I also found out that my grandparents were Opus Dei, which is kind of like the blue-collar secret society within the Catholic Church.
ThomasGUEST
And they basically, like the Catholic Church, I'm going to get some of this wrong, 1920s, I think, is when Opus Dei started forming.
ThomasGUEST
And the idea was that, hey, if we've got doctors and lawyers and salesmen and all of these like blue slash white collar workers that are going out into the workforce, like let's let them also kind of become not really priests.
ThomasGUEST
Right.
ThomasGUEST
But they're also allowed to work for God and work for the Catholic Church.
ThomasGUEST
out in like their industry so turns out my grandpa essentially was in Opus Dei so he probably like our instilled idea of papal infallibility was definitely in our family but it didn't really hit me directly I think I was sheltered from that just a little bit So I didn't realize how hardcore the rules really were.
ThomasGUEST
And I didn't even know I was a fish in water for the first 15 years.
David RiderHOST
Let's hear what some of the saints have said about spiritual reading.
David RiderHOST
Saint Josemaria Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei said, don't neglect your spiritual reading.
David RiderHOST
Reading has made many great saints.
David RiderHOST
Don Bosco, the founder of the Salesians said, only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.
MackenzieHOST
And that's what I think he's trying to do.
MackenzieHOST
And it comes to fruition, I think, also with the, you mentioned the barbed wire, right? Like that is very reminiscent of Opus Dei.
MackenzieHOST
I mean, we're Catholic, so maybe we know this because we're Catholic, but it is a very controversial sect, secret society in the Catholic Church.
MackenzieHOST
that believes in self-harm as a form of penance.
Michael DauphinéHOST
Good theology is available for everyone.
Michael DauphinéHOST
St. Josemaria Escriva would say that he wanted all of, kind of, you know, he wanted all of, you know, his sons and daughters, he was the founder of Opus Dei, but that they should have the piety of children and the doctrine of theologians.
Michael DauphinéHOST
And I think your work kind of as a lover of theology and a lover of Aquinas kind of helps make Aquinas great again, make Aquinas accessible again.
Matt FraddGUEST
I was speaking at a Dominican church in Dublin, Ireland recently, and the Dominican priest who introduced me said that they've got a lot of candidates now who have just entered, and the first thing most of them said was pints with Aquinas.
Anne DaviesGUEST
Now, what we found in this particular case is that the... a group of right-wing Liberals set up an organization called The Reformers, and they are really hardcore right members.
Anne DaviesGUEST
So a lot of them went to a school in The Hills called Redfield College, which is an Opus Dei college.
Anne DaviesGUEST
Now, Opus Dei is a particular- Segment of the Catholic Church started in 1923-ish in Spain.
Anne DaviesGUEST
They were big supporters of the Franco regime in Spain, and it's grown.
Anne DaviesGUEST
They have very traditional family roles.
Anne DaviesGUEST
They believe in big families, so a lot of the Opus Dei characters in this story come from families with eight, 10, 12 children.
Anne DaviesGUEST
You know, uh, so, so that's, that's an interesting angle to it.
Reged AhmadHOST
You describe it as, as part of the conservative Catholic ecosystem.
speaker_0HOST
That's because of the intense heat in Rome, July and August.
speaker_0HOST
And so at that time, simply Father Josemaria was going there to seek the approval of Opus Dei, and he was praying.
speaker_0HOST
He was working.
speaker_0HOST
He was studying.
speaker_0HOST
And in all that, no one except for the close collaborator of Father Josemaria, that time Father Alvaro, now Blessed Alvaro del Portillo.
speaker_0HOST
Father Alvaro was the only one who knew about these kind of sufferings.
speaker_0HOST
And so many times, Father Josemaria would meet his young children in Opus Dei and would be laughing with them.
speaker_0HOST
None of them suspected that he was suffering of this diabetes mellitus.
Monica PerezHOST
And you...
Monica PerezHOST
And, like, Opus Dei went to Spain to change the mentality that you really, you can sit around and watch your, your, you know, watch your cows eat grass and enjoy your life without all of that consumerism.
Monica PerezHOST
And I think that's what makes people desperate to control the system is that they don't realize that they're, that, that they're a slave to consumption, to, like, mass, like, e-economic, transactional consumption.
Parallel MikeHOST
Yeah.
Gary WayneGUEST
But if we understand then that, that the Masons are, you know, bringing people into the, the Gnostic religion, and that the Gnostic religion is mysticism, you'll understand that the Essenes, as we've talked about in the past, is, is part of this sh- significant organizational structure, and have rituals to this day still within Freemasonry, and the handshakes and a lot of the hand s- signals is all part of the Essenes.
Gary WayneGUEST
And the Essenes were the first ascetic monastic order in the West, that all the Gnostic orders within Catholicism, like the Franciscans, like the Benedictines, like the Augustines, um, and all the other ones, and even including Opus Dei, which is called s- you know, Christian social masonry within the church that was created in the '30s.
Gary WayneGUEST
It's all set up on that Essene order because they were polytheists.
Josh MundayHOST
Yeah.
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