Opus Dei question

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I’m in agreement with this post. I think all that stuff is good. I just want to do it privately though and not be judged by a human group.
 
In OD, the only person who knows your particular practices of aesthetical struggle is your spiritual direction.

And this makes sense to avoid over doing things, or to do things out of pride or vanity vs. out of love for God.
 
Thanks for the additional info. I also struggle /ponder over whether I personally would benefit from spiritual direction, so this kinda fits in with that.
 
OP I hope you don’t mind if I ask a question. If you do, tell me and I’ll take it off.

Did José María Escrivá lead this Opus Dei lifestyle of daily mortification, cold showers, huge work ethic, waking up the second the alarm rings in the morning… did he do all that?
 
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I didn’t make myself clear. The opus dei woman (supernumerary??? if forget) questioned the way I prayed and worshipped as if she knew me.
 
Fwiw…I was given this point on SD.

We need an air traffic controller. We’re flying in clouds sometimes unable to connect the dots and we have a great difficulting understanding/appreciating our trajectory, circumstances, collision points.

A spiritual director can help us see these things ahead of time (assuming they’re not a clown, that is they have sound criteria, good judgment, and courage to tell us what we need to know/hear).

In the end…though…the requirement for personal growth dictates that “we own the problem”…we have to make the call…just like a pilot. The pilot owns the plane and the safety of the passengers…he/she can’t pass off responsibility to the Air traffic controller.

This responsibility and “ownership” in fact FORCES the person to grow, develop skills, develop virtues of prudence, decisiveness, etc.

We have to be sincere with our director too…no lying…no hiding, no covering over of problems or motives.

Just as a pilot can’t lie about how many engines are still running, how much fuel the aircraft has, etc.
 
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Well I am not the OP.

But the founder did live a very strenuous and happy life of prayer, use of the Sacraments, mortification, and work.

He famously said that we should live and die like a lemon, all squeezed out, having given God our all.

He was a very energetic fellow, intense, quite cheerful and fatherly.

Here’s a beautiful video of him talking with a young Jewish woman about her desire to convert. Beautiful…listen to the last words and think about how he helps her.

Subtitled.

 
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