Jack, care to comment about the abuse suffered by the female assistant numeraries (numerarias auxiliares) that were recruited being minors (14 year of age) all over the world, worked without receiving salary nor pension, social insurance, etc, and when they left opus dei were not given anything? I personally know many of them. One of those ladies, who is Irish, did wash your own underwear. You can continue to fill with empty euphemisms all the channels as much as you want. The stark reality that remains is that the persistence in denying justice to those most vulnerable affected by you, removes any credibility from opus dei. And that inability to accept and recognize those abuses ( as any Christian should) is mostly hampered by the economic burden that you would have to shoulder. Now, who knows what the real finances of Torreciudad are, when in my own experience opus dei's affiliated organizations, foundations, etc. are layers of stealth built to remove opus dei from legal responsibility. Not surprisingly it may be scary for you that the Bishop will be getting hold of the real numbers, and the manouvres done to manufacture that "deficit". Plenty of information can be found in OpusLibros, if anyone cares to read.
Dear Jack Righteous indignation noted. 😐 So I know this has nothing to do with your post but.... I wonder, when you became aware of the violation of labour laws by Opus Dei in many countries(including your own) did you experience the same righteous indignation? Did you feel compelled to come out in defence of the many ex nax, particularly the Argentinian 43, who are seeking justice and compensation for the many years of labour with no payment? For work they carried out in OD centres day after day with no proper breaks or actual holidays. Not just across Argentina, but also in the UK, Ireland, Spain, USA, Australia, the Philippians, Nigeria and every country where assistant numaries 'serve' OD. I wonder if you gave a second thought for the domestic staff of the centre where you live, staff that were recruited, mostly as minors to carry out the jobs that you as a numerary man, felt were beneath you, but perfectly acceptable for us to do? Nothing wrong with properly renumerated domestic work, I have no argument with that. However Jack, I am sorry to say but I do have indignation. After spending years washing/ironing/folding your clothing, cooking your meals, serving you these meals and cleaning your house...for nothing! Yes, I have indignation. How does this sit with you? 🤔
Thank you Jack, for the detailed and profound explanations and also the relativizations and corrections. This helps members of the Work to maintain inner peace and also outsiders to better understand Opus Dei.
they did not disperse the protesters outside the school where the teacher went into hiding,funny double standard as usual ,,police pick on the meek and vulnerable but dont arrest nonses incase they offend,,,
The congregation missed a golden opportunity to hound those morons out of there, and see them go with their tails between their legs, just like that pastor in the US recently did. One man sent a group of cops scurrying from his church when they tried to pull the exact same shit. When you stand up to fascists, they back down. As all bullies do.
The police have abused their power going into a church and threatening the congregation with fines or arrest. What is going on with the British police they are acting like Nazis. Good Friday is one of the most important days in the christian faith. This must stop . But l think it's going to get worse if the police bill goes through , God help the British people against the police brutality.
Imagine a society and Government where you need permission to participate in lawful acts like going to Church or to the Pub, disgraceful erosion of rights and freedoms under the guise of "keeping you safe".
This is how devol jump to church and remove Christianity. Shame government and your ridiculous health service. Scammers are now everywhere in uk. And freedom has been lose in this country.
The police were "overstepping the mark?" Umm...literally! There are spots in the Church where laity do not go out of reverence- right around the altar- behind the Communion rail. They basically trampled in Sacred areas and even went to the pulpit where the Gospel is read and the Word of God proclaimed to announce that people were to leave. They showed immense insensitivity not only to the day, Good Friday, but also to God's House. This is getting to the level of Soviet persecution, folks, the desecration of Churches and the Poles WILL be remembering this from their not so recent past. And in Calgary, Canada, a Polish pastor also kicked out police, rather vehemently. I strongly suspect he was aware of what happened in England. How could he not?
This is utter bullshit!! How about the tens of thousands of people crammed into their seats on commercial airlines all across the globe! The madness needs to stop! All this fear mongering by mainstream media too!!
Ignorant bullies. Correction - highly and cringeworthily ignorant police, let alone the desecration of a holy place of worship. They didn't barge their way in without 'approval' from higher up. Disgusting.
And just what did they think they were doing getting between the wordsahippers, the priests and the altar? A scene that must have cropped up in 1930s Germany many times!
I know , I thought I'd seen it all , but this is the absolute lowest of the low . However , all these evil things that are happening are foretold in Revelation , which confirms the truth of this most important book of the Bible.
The sheer careless selfish arrogance of these people, claiming that they are “offended” at being stopped from potentially spreading Corona virus and killing people Those interviewed didn’t seem stupid or uneducated, so there can be no excuse for not knowing the rules and the potential carnage their callous actions might cause to the U.K. and its citizens
Curiously, the lockdown and mask zealots are invariably the professionally and financially secure. They welcome the myriad opportunities to signal their virtue. As you obviously do.
In a Church the worshippers are under God's Law, Covid rules are the work of Satan. Jesus hugged the Lepor, told us not to pay heed to the words of men and to fear Nothing. This isn't a war against a virus but of Good Vs Evil.
Why even try to stop the service? People will gather no matter what is going on even if they're lives and others lives are in danger. Seems like a waste of time. I don't think this is some type of "It's happening as it has been written, sign of end times" scenario because it's an isolated event and there is no indication that this mentality is going to spread worldwide. The world has been going to deal for a while now and these "end times" events have been happening for the past 3,000+ years without all life ending. It's just humans messing everything up as usual.
