During Holy Week 1949, Josemaría Escrivá preached a retreat to a group of professionals in the Molinoviejo Conference Center. Several of the first supernumeraries of Opus Dei came from this retreat. ...The article describes the progress of the preaching of St. Josemaría to this group. The details are partly reconstructed from the notes of some of the participants as well as the personal history of several of these pioneers.
The incorporation of associate members into Opus
Dei began in 1950, following the approval of Opus Dei as a secular institute.
This study focuses on the formation of the women who had applied for ...admission as associates in the first half of the 1950s in Spain. These were women
with a celibate commitment, who had a professional career and who did not
live in Opus Dei centers. Firstly, the methods and content of this personal and
collective formation are discussed, and secondly, the response of some of these
women is examined.
La incorporación de fieles del Opus Dei como agregados comenzó
en 1950, a partir de su aprobación como instituto secular. Este estudio se
centra en la formación de las mujeres que habían solicitado la admisión como
agregadas en la primera mitad de la década de 1950 en España. Mujeres con
compromiso de celibato, que ejercían una tarea profesional y que no vivían en
los centros del Opus Dei. Por una parte se abordan los modos y el contenido
de esa formación personal y colectiva y, por otra, la respuesta de algunas de
esas mujeres.
The first expansion of Opus Dei in Italy, in 1949, is described: this consists of an overview together with the criteria given by St. Josemaría for undertaking the trips to make Opus Dei known. With ...the help of the notes of Luigi Tirelli, one of the people involved in the trips, we focus on the activities carried out in Sicily (Palermo and Catania) up until the opening of the first center of the Work in Palermo (1949). To conclude, an outline of the trips to Italian cities is presented.
During his lifetime, the founder of Opus Dei made two changes to his names: he united the first two into one —Josemaría— and added the toponymic “de Balaguer” to his first surname. This study ...analyzes the reasons for these changes and the ways in which the founder himself expressed his name.
In these pages, the early years of Opus Dei in Argentina are examined, with a particular focus on the development of female apostolic work. The selected time frame encompasses the years 1952-1962 ...when apostolic efforts commenced in the city of Rosario, the first vocations emerged, and the institution initiated its expansion into other cities. The objective of this work is to establish a timeline for Opus Dei’s beginnings in Rosario and examine the role of women in Argentine society.
El presente artículo consiste en un análisis empírico del habitus y modos de justificación de la élite vinculada al Opus Dei, grupo que tiene un ascendiente importante sobre las élites en Chile y que ...ha sido poco estudiado. Se utiliza el aparato conceptual de Pierre Bourdieu, debido a que su propuesta de clasificación social incorpora las propiedades simbólicas como modos de distinción social, a través de las cuales los agentes aprehenden e interpretan el mundo y su posición en la estructura social. El Opus Dei será considerado como un sujeto colectivo que da forma a un habitus compartido entre quienes forman parte de él, donde la “santificación del trabajo” aparece como un elemento central en la distinción social del grupo. La metodología es de carácter cualitativo y se realizó un total de 16 entrevistas en profundidad a miembros de la Obra e informantes claves sobre el tema, para posteriormente analizar el material mediante la técnica de análisis de discurso.
In the light of the most recent research into the unpublished writings of St. Josemaría Escrivá, hypotheses are presented regarding the chronology, working method and literary style of his Letters.
El fundador del Opus Dei estableció las semanas de trabajo como
instrumento de gobierno y de escucha de las diversas regiones de la Obra. De
las seis semanas que organizó durante su vida, destaca la ...última por la amplia
consulta que se hizo a personas del Opus Dei.
The founder of Opus Dei
stablished the Work Weeks as an instrument of governance and hearing of
the different regions of the Work. Among the six weeks he organized in his
life, the last one is remarkable for the broad consultation made to people of
Opus Dei
In the light of the most recent research into the unpublished
writings of St. Josemaría Escrivá, hypotheses are presented regarding the chronology, working method and literary style of his Letters.
A ...la luz de las últimas investigaciones sobre los escritos inéditos de
san Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, se ofrecen hipótesis sobre la cronología,
método de trabajo y género literario de sus Cartas.
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