Word: elmbrook
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...Elmbrook Center, where Bucciarelli took refuge, is also home to Keefe, two other male undergraduates, one Boston University student, a Harvard Law School student, a Kennedy School of Government visiting fellow, and an MIT administrator. A group of about ten undergraduate men attends events at Elmbrook on a weekly basis. Bucciarelli says that between 15 and 20 students are in regular spiritual contact with...
Some College women attend meetings similar to the weekly Elmbrook get-togethers at the Bayridge residence in Boston’s Back Bay. The center provides spiritual guidance and up-scale living for 60 college-aged women, not all of them connected to Opus...
Keefe’s love affair was in a way consummated on October 6 of last year, when the man who made his life’s work possible was declared a saint by Pope John Paul II. Keefe traveled with friends from Elmbrook to Rome to witness the canonization...
While Keefe grew up with Opus Dei, his Elmbrook housemate, Daniel R. Tapia ’05 says he met the Work at a business program he attended at UCLA while still a junior in high school. His family, he writes in an e-mail, “doesn’t understand religion and God,” but supports him in his decision to become closer to God and Opus Dei through residence at Elmbrook...
...Elmbrook Center sits at the edge of the Mass. Ave. side of Cambridge Commons, twenty or so yards down narrow Follen Street. This humble white colonial, though called a “center,” is more like a home. Inside visitors find an old-fashioned parlor to their right. On the left is the dining room, closed from view by white double-doors that are only opened during meal time. In the parlor, a worn carpet and aged armchairs make Elmbrook feel, in Keefe’s words, like “a time warp...