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According to Reverend Robert P. Bucciarelli ’56, an Opus Dei priest, however, no student associated with Opus Dei ever threatened the “tent” Brennan visualizes; he calls his fellow priest’s story a lie. “It didn’t happen. It’s a lie—L-I-E,” he says...
This is part of the faith of Opus Dei, a Catholic lay group founded in 1928 by Josemaría Escriva, now a canonized saint. Escriva’s purpose was to promote what Opus Dei terms a “universal call to holiness” that would allow for the “sanctification of work” in everyday life—essentially, to make saintliness more accessible to ordinary people...
...just as much as he emphasizes this idea of everyday spirituality, Escriva in his writings preaches the trickle-down theories Bucciarelli, an Opus Dei priest, espouses as his own. In Escriva’s most widely read collection, The Way—an assortment of strikingly powerful points of prose which Opus Dei members reflect on during prayer—the trickle-down idea is clear...
Bucciarelli explains the philosophy in his own terms, mixing metaphors with Escriva to explain the great purpose his group can serve in Cambridge. “Even if [Harvard] were not Godless, there would be a need for Opus Dei at Harvard,” he says. “The intellectuals, you know, they have great influence. Like the snow-capped mountains, they’re going to irrigate the valleys...
Opus Dei’s answer has been what it calls the “personal” or “private” apostolate. The mission of Opus Dei is spread through word of mouth—through friendship...