Word: dei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work takes its form from the Catholic Mass, the Kyrie eleison, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei. As more or less ironic counterpoint, a populist band of sinners and dancers variously sing, intone or howl doubts and questions in a mélange of musical styles and pop-lyric words by Bernstein and Stephen Schwartz, the 23-year-old creator of Godspell, the musical version of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. The dramatic climax of the work is the disruption of the Mass. It also involves the spiritual shattering of a young man who begins...
...misses the point, therefore, and is indeed false to say that "The organization is powerful in Spain because many of its members hold influential positions in the economy," etc. Power has nothing to do with the revolution Opus Dei is interested in. Just try making a man believe-with a belief that is free and responsible, with a belief that really counts-by using money or industrial power of governmental power...
...case, this is not Opus Dei's revolution. Opus Dei claims no monopoly on spiritual power, which always is based in the free conscience. On the one hand its message is to all men of good will; and on the other, it is based on nothing more than the Church has always taught and offered to put into men's hands-the doctrine and the way of Christ as something living, a doctrine the Church constantly interprets as relevant to the ills of this world. The only thing that Opus Dei insists on is that it be put into...
...convey the idea that Opus Dei is not aware of the social or political dimensions of the Catholic faith, then, is obviously to get the matter backwards. The fact that Opus Dei is made up of laymen in all walks of life dedicated to living the implications of their faith to the fullest says differently. Opus Dei rightly does not dictate how its members should best think or act in such matters, nor does it attempt to organize them. This is for laymen to do, not organizations of the Church. It is the laymen who have to be responsible...
...Elmbrook is indeed a center of Opus Dei where some students and professional people live. But it is not a little group of holy boys residing tastefully north of the Common cultivating some nice religious practices. It is a center that serves hundreds of Harvard students as well as professional and working people of the Boston area, challenging them and helping them to find that their faith-and indeed their very lives-just might mean something after...