Dear Friends of Opus Dei WATCH –
It is good to be in contact with all of you again. I’m working on a major expose of Opus, but in the meantime I’m sending you some current articles that are appearing on Opuslibros: Opus Dei: The Trap of Vocation (opuslibros.org) (http://opuslibros.org/trampa.htm). This one is one of the best. It’s a classic.
Randy Engel
for OPUS DEI WATCH.
The link above is Spanish. Here is the English translation.
THE TRAP OF VOCATION
"The Opus," says Pániker (Raimundo Pánikerentered the Obra in 1939 and left in 1966. He was ordained a priest in the second class)," he wants to save the world from himself in the name of God, but on his own terms. The conditions of Opus, of course, are identical to those of its founder. All grace that leads to salvation comes to the members of Opus Dei through its founder. Through the grace of the founder you are what you are. Hence the traumas suffered by those who leave. Too often they believe, and the members of Opus think so, that by separating themselves from this source of grace they put themselves out of this divinely and unalterably perfect institution of inspiration, and are destined to be eternally damned. "The devil acts quickly," Janet Gould told her mother when she explained why she could not leave the Opus residence for a short period to go home to visit, "and he will do so if I leave here. (Quoted in the "Catholic Pictorial," September 13, 1981. Miss Gould has already left Opus.) The impact on Opus members is predictable. They are early separated from their natural family. They are taught to believe that salvation is impossible, now that they are members of Opus Dei, but only through the organization into which they have entered. It supplies their family life, their environment, at least in everything that is not professional activity and, in many cases, especially for women, also this one. When they are disillusioned, therefore, the emotional impact is overwhelming. Those who want to leave have no one to turn to, no one, outside of Opus, with whom to establish a relationship close enough that they can trust them. And they have also been brought up in the belief that by breaking their ties they are committing the most infamous sin. Salvation is transmitted through Opus. Without the Opus, the former numerary is doomed." (Collected by Michael Walsh, The Secret World of Opus Dei (http://opuslibros.org/libros/Mundo_secreto/capitulo_1.htm))..
Life, outside the Work, has its troubles and its joys, it is life itself, that of any person in the middle of this world, without privileges, without glass screens, but without any other submission than what you want to do, be, think, and above all live and breathe! In the Work they dwarf God and make him an accomplice of an incredible spider's web to keep us well clinging with phrases as deceptive as "infidelity [to Opus Dei], breaking the union with God, that is the serious thing" (Escrivá). There's the catch! Look at it as follows:
For Escrivá, leaving his work is the same as... break the union with God! (How much pride does it take to make such a claim?) To leave the Work is not to abandon the Church or turn our backs on God, because the Work is not the Church and the true Work of God is Jesus Christ.
In the first place, your vocation was invented, "they saw it", but you were captured by a process of "falling in love" or attraction or coercion (remember how you entered the Work). Even so, if you had had a vocation - could you choose to have a vocation of "supernumerary at 14, 15, 16, 17 or 18 years old?, Right!- you had a vocation as a numerary because he / she - together with the priest of the work with whom you confessed - "had seen him in prayer" or as an aggregate if your social level or your education, your peculiarities and even your physique was not the desired one, or of auxiliary numerary, if you were taken out of a town, without studies, of humble class, from where "some young ladies" took you to the capital to "study", to "form" (with the tranquility that was left to your parents because you were going to carve out a better future).They invented your vocation and involved God.
making you believe that He was the one asking you for "that." And you ended up accepting it "Domine, ut videam!", "You will not want to be like the rich young man of the Gospel to whom Jesus said'follow me' and by not doing so he was sad"... and so many similar phrases.
In any case, not continuing in an organization is not being unfaithful, it is a choice and life is full of them. Imagine that you have signed a contract to work in a company and when you have been there for a while, you see that it has nothing to do with what you were told it was. You do not like their working methods, nor are you convinced by their goals, nor do you feel at ease. If you decide to terminate the contract and look for a better place where the air runs, no statute or any branch of any law, nor common sense would typify your case as "that of the unfaithful employee who wants to break his relationship with God". Imagine that you are married to a person who mistreats you and you have been enduring the situation for years.
. If you dared to stand up to him, to denounce him and to leave his side, could anyone accuse you that if you abandon him, you are being unfaithful? And if, therefore, someone told you that in addition to being unfaithful, the serious thing is that you have broken your relationship with God, would it be in their right mind who tried to convince you to continue to endure? Do you think God would want you to continue to endure abuse and not defend yourself?
Think for a moment about people who associate with or enter some religious institution. If at one point in their lives they believe and have the certainty that what they chose is no longer what they want, or it is no longer worth it, or they believe that their spiritual evolution has led them in other directions, with the same freedom they entered (freedom that you did not have), they leave. The Church, in her Code of Canon Law, protects them. And nothing happens, they are not unfaithful to God because God can be served in many ways (more than serving, God prefers that you love him) and God is still God and you are still you and nothing is broken, there is no infidelity. Remember the Father's phrase so that we do not forget how incongruous and wheezy it is: "infidelity [to Opus Dei], breaking the union with God, that is the serious thing."
For the founder, "infidelity" is leaving the Work; it does not matter under what conditions or for what reasons. It does not respect your freedom, it does not admit that you think for free, it does not accept that you are a person or that you are yourself. And he dares, moreover, to use God for his own convenience. That is why he equates "infidelity" to "breaking the union with God" and makes you believe that if you leave the Work "you betray him like another Judas." How can anyone think in his right mind that not admitting, not understanding, not being able to combine theory with the practice of the spirit of Opus Dei, after having tried many times, is "breaking the union with God"? If it's just a matter of mental health! The idea of God has so little to do with desolation, with bitterness, with sadness, with unreason, with lack of charity, that if God could speak by his own mouth he would tell you that He has nothing to do with Opus Dei, that they are not his methods, that he loves you the same inside as outside and, above all, that it is not sectarian and that organizations are not invented in which the one inside ends up looking for reasons to die and not reasons to live.
Leaving the Work is not "breaking the union with God" What will one thing have to do with another? What a crude manipulation and how easy to disassemble! But, it is true and we give you all the reason, you only realize that they have manipulated you or that they are doing it, when you are out or you are almost about to leave because your psychic and physical health can no longer.
Curling the curl, if you are served by a situation that is not yours but that could have influenced you so much that you felt like a bad person for having left or wanting to leave Opus Dei, remember this passage from the Gospel: "Woman, has anyone condemned you? Me neither. Go in peace!" tags.
And from the juridical point of view, the departure of the Work is perfectly legitimized in the Statutes of the Prelature (http://opuslibros.org/nuevaweb/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12), approved by the Church. Leaving is legitimate, you don't break any laws.
We advise you to read chapter III of Maria del Carmen Tapia's book: "Vocational Crisis (http://opuslibros.org/libros/Tras_umbral/capitulo_3.htm)". It will give you "lights" to remind you or to let you know how the theme of vocation is used in Opus Dei. With a theological and philosophical explanation, Antonio RuízRetegui, theologian and numerary priest of Opus Dei, will also clarify it in his chapter The sense of perseverance (http://opuslibros.org/libros/Teologal/capitulo_11.htm) of his intimate reflections "The theological and the institutional (http://opuslibros.org/libros/Teologal/indice.htm)". A former numerary priest will also help you with his testimony Difficult decision (http://opuslibros.org/escritos/decision_dificil.htm), as can the writing The vocation to Opus Dei does not exist and on baptism (http://opuslibros.org/escritos/vocacion_opusdei_fede.htm). Read also the reflections, in the light of the Gospel, of the story of the rich young man (http://opuslibros.org/escritos/interpretacion.htm), Letter to a recent 'whistle' with doubts (http://opuslibros.org/escritos/carta_pitada_chamo.htm), The sectarian technique of proselytism of Opus Dei (http://opuslibros.org/nuevaweb/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8016).
And to see the coercion in the arguments used to assign you a vocation, read – and make it read to your parents – the talk about the vocation of the circle (http://www.opuslibros.org/html/charla_vocacion.htm). If you are going in circles, sooner or later they will tell you that, so that you "whistle". And to verify the falsity of their actions and the coldness of their sectarian methods, read the 27 steps to "pite" a numerary per month (http://opuslibros.org/nuevaweb/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9518), an internal docuмent of Opus Dei where the guidelines of the process of recruitment and "infatuation" to which you will be subjected if you are under their influence are marked. Don't fall into the trap.
As Antonio Pérez Tenessa* declared: "Once freed from the trauma left by the Work, I repeat literally with you: I, for my part, can continue to assure you that I have not come to miss any of your care, your talks, your advice, your dialogues, your apostolates, nothing. Because that was precisely what cost and repelled me as contradictory." (Collected by María Angustias Moreno in her book, El Opus Dei, annex to a story (http://opuslibros.org/nuevaweb/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=32)). *Antonio Pérez Tenessa asked for admission to Opus Dei in 1939, was ordained a priest in 1948. From 1950 he held the position of Secretary General of Opus Dei and in 1956 he was appointed Regional Councillor of Spain (a position equivalent to the current Regional Vicar). In 1965 he left the institution. In 1992 he published an article in the Spanish newspaper "El País" entitled: "I will not speak badly of the Work (http://www.opuslibros.org/prensa/nohablare_antonioperez.htm)".
Another testimony that will make you think and make you think and reconsider the reclautadores of vocations: "The "pitajes" in bulk and the vocation to Opus Dei (http://opuslibros.org/nuevaweb/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10685)". And another: "The seduction of affection: origins of a vocation (http://opuslibros.org/nuevaweb/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10922)". And another: "How we made numeraries in Mexico (http://www.opuslibros.org/nuevaweb/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14889)."
It's so much like Scientology- it's scary
It's so much like… Kabbalah…
Opus Judei Founder, Escriba Preached Kabbalistic Doctrine, Tikkun Olam
https://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2007/07/opus-judei-founder-escriba-preached.html (https://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2007/07/opus-judei-founder-escriba-preached.html)
тαℓмυd in the Tabernacle
“A cross without a corpus, a fabulously wealthy charity that apparently donates not one thin dime to anyone, shattered adherents tossed into the street, and Our Father doesn’t mean the first person of the Blessed Trinity. Welcome to the wacky and corrupt bizarro Catholicism of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei.…
“Opus Dei subtly betrays the silhouette of a secret society. Governing by-laws, constitutions, publications, even the details of the Founder’s canonization are kept secret from both the public and the sect’s members. Similar to the cult tactics mentioned above, members are often encouraged to divulge their inmost thoughts to ‘spiritual directors’ which is then leveraged as a means to psychologically control behavior. As Randy Engel related earlier this year, the secretive personal prelature seems to operate at the elite levels of society, controlling vast amounts of wealth, the details of which remain undisclosed due to the organizational structure’s private holding companies.… Reading up on the Opus Dei Awareness Network you’ll discover refugees from the Opus Dei Octagon who talk about a founding Saint who cussed a blue streak, called his assistant a sow and publicly demanded that a female cult member drop her drawers for a bare-nekked spanking. -There goes that posterior orientation again. Can we get detailed insight from James Martin, SJ on this topic? But Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer is definitely a saint, because he had an apparition of the Blessed Virgin that was never authenticated by the Church, occurred in front of exactly zero witnesses, and for which there is the same amount of evidence, none. Forgive the flippant tone so far, as the victims of Opus Dei are kept in my prayers, but the conciliar religion is such a joke. Check out Opus Dei awareness network (https://odan.org/) for further description of the suffering that these evil people create. Now let’s look deeper.…
“Spanish Jєω Reveals Secret History of Opus Judei
The following explanation is sent by a collaborator of Hebrew origin and Kabbalistic practice who for years was shown as Catholic, but who finally decided to make use of her secret identity to particularize and clarify some of the practices of kabbalists who infiltrated in the Catholic Church for centuries, and now in the Neo Conciliar Church.
On this occasion he reveals to us something of what had spread about the Marrano José María Escriv(b)a [note: parenthetical spelling might refer to Escriva’s name change from the judaic Escriba] to Balaguer y Albás, founder of Opus Dei, and he does it from the Hebrew point of view:
When you talk about the Opus Dei as Kabbalists, you have to specify something. They are not just a group of people who practice the Hebrew kabbalah disguised as devout Catholics, but something else.…
From the history of Opus Dei there is much to explain, and much that is hidden. José María was a man very aware of his origin and blood. And he wanted to do something for the Spanish crypto-Jєωs, scattered and unrelated to each other. He wanted them to be together and united. It was not difficult to know who they were, you just had to look into the families of political and economic power in Spain. That is why opus are not, as it is erroneously called, a “Catholic movement for the rich”. It is a movement to unite crypto-Hebrew families and prevent them from assimilating by mixing with rich non-Hebrew families. Initially for Spain, but in a short time, Escrivá made an international expansion.
“There is so much here that a summary is in good order. Centuries-old Christian-kabbalism (a very real condition!) should have our attention, as it predates the Enlightenment by centuries and causally explains much more about our present catastrophe. The writer then gives an important reminder of the crypto-judaic agenda, which we saw in previous posts with the life of the heretic Arius (https://cognitivegateway.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/arian-fifth-column/), the overthrow of the Visigoths, and anti-Pope Anacletus II (https://cognitivegateway.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/bernard-norbert-take-out-the-anti-pope/). Crypto-judaism moves by stealth and strategically acquires positions of power and influence within its targeted host. Principles of concealment and misdirection are used to both hide the real agenda and mislead those non-judaics who become suspicious. Judaic supremacists rigorously pursue the retention of their pure тαℓмυdic identity, even in spite of intermarriages. Secrecy supports this agenda. Finally; dichotomies such as left/right, liberal/conservative, traditional/novus ordo mean absolutely nothing to the crypto-judaic, other than a means to confuse the targeted population or actively employ the divide-and-conquer strategem. There is one loyalty alone, whether it be to the тαℓмυd, the race, or the national project. Regardless of all dissimulation to the contrary, this collective loyalty is never divided against other Judaics in favor of gentiles.
“Opus Judei
“In 1994, Colombian publisher Orion printed the book Opus Judei written in Spanish pseudonymously by Josemaria Escriba, the spelling representing the Opus Dei founder’s Judaic surname previous to the conspicuously altered Escriva de Balaguer.
“Running a modest 246 pages, the table of contents for Chapter III and its subheadings takes up that peculiar topic which mysteriously transforms the Anglophone lions of Catholic trad-servatism into harmless little ѕуηαgσgυє Church mice. Section three is most pertinent to this post.
Chapter III: The Hidden Judaism of Opus Dei
- The Problem of Underground Judaism in Spain
- Secular Infiltration of Underground Judaism in the Clergy
- Jєωιѕн Roots of Escrivá de Balaguer
- Kabbalistic Symbolism of Opus Dei
- Jєωιѕн Ghettos As Model for Opus Dei
- Opus Dei & the Jєωιѕн Question
- Finances of Opus Dei & International Judaism
- Identity Between the Spirit of Opus Dei & the Jєωιѕн Soul
- Jesuit Influences in Opus Dei
- World Government, nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr & Opus Dei [http://www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/currenterrors/jopus.htm (http://www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/currenterrors/jopus.htm)]
“Fittingly per the above, the only online English translation of the book was its table of contents. The rest remains in its Spanish original, available via download at this site’s Gateway Reader Page (https://cognitivegateway.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/opus-judei-single-pagination-btr.pdf). Non-Spanish speakers attempting to translate with Google beware: the docuмent is an imaged .pdf, meaning that there is no copy/paste function available. The only conceivable solution was to manually enter the Spanish text, copy into the translation page and then tease out the English meaning through the sometimes awkward English rendering of Spanish idiom. Motivation was found in the certainty that I had a source that neither the conciliar Christian-kabbalists nor their Judaic slave masters could keep from me a moment longer.…
One can be conscious that to speak of the Jєωιѕн subject, and especially if one alludes to it without praise is a taboo subject. You have to start calling things by their names, say that in the mind of Escriva de Balaguer there was Jєωιѕн thought, that Escribá – which was his real first name – was a crypto-Jєω and that it is not possible to understand his work or interpret it if it is not related to the essential phenomenon of its interior and exterior Judaism.
In the biographies of Escriva de Balaguer we miss three essential elements of his nefarious personality; three basic facts are disguised to understand the man and his Work: Escriva was Jєωιѕн, that he was a ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ and that he created Opus Dei to serve the ends of the hidden and sinister Jєωιѕн power, never for the greater Glory of God and of his Church. Escriva uses the Church and not vice versa. [Escriba, Josemaria; Opus ʝʊdɛօ; Impreso Orion en Editores; 1994; p 175-176.]
“Acknowledging the Crypto-Judaic Fifth Column: Tremendous Explanatory Power
Most ambitious of all [Opus Dei] is attempting to secure key positions in the government of the Church… The personal prelature will allow Opus Dei to spread everywhere ignoring the local bishops. It denies this but its record in telling the truth is poor. Its members will now be even less protected by the Church than they have been, and Opus Dei is one step closer to becoming a sect. Should it gain control over key organs of government of the Church, the spirit of the Vatican Council will be gravely threatened, as also will be the unity and moral integrity of the Church.[Opus Dei Awareness Network; http://www.odan.org/tw_inner_world_of_opus_dei.htm (http://www.odan.org/tw_inner_world_of_opus_dei.htm); URL accessed 30 December 2017.]
“Opus Dei exemplifies a dynamic of our ongoing catastrophe that no Catholic opinion shapers are willing to realize. Like on a merry-go-round, we revolve over and over again to the same points in the circle. Point one: prelate in Rome or major Catholic See scandalizes with his words or deeds. Point two: hue and cry is raised by those few Catholic pundits who still care about the Faith. Point three: same online tribunes, correctly and insofar as they understand the problem, demand action. Point four: conservative, controlled opposition engages in empty posturing. This whole dynamic ought to make obvious to us that there is something we’re missing here; and that whatever we’re not getting is fundamental to the true nature of the problem; and that no one in the clergy, or online punditry can explain it. The failure to see the underlying cause leads to the failure to explain. Frustration turns to exasperation as the cycle repeats.
“When conditions in the world devolve into ever-deepening depravity, bad Catholics are at the root of the matter. Few would deny this. What is denied is the reality that bad Catholics have non-Catholic helpers in being led further astray, and at the dawning of 2018 A.D. this anti-Catholic help comes from within the Church. We are afraid to acknowledge the sinister presence of crypto-Jєωry inside the Church, and this fear keeps us locked in a cycle of permanent nescience. Should the reality of crypto-Jєωry ever be broached in conversation, just watch as the counterpart takes on the countenance of one who has been lobotomized. Not only won’t they speak out on the topic, many are afraid to listen. Still more have been programmed, and stupidly relish their regular grog rations of propaganda from their favorite Hollywood, media, alt-right, or conservative opinion dispenser. Almost all thinking on the topic is captive to the public square’s invisible ѕуηαgσgυє, and many act as if they fear expulsion therefrom. Simply put, as long as Catholics keep avoiding the question of crypto-Jєωry’s vast, patiently developed and fully structured infiltration into the Church, then the crazy train will continue on its circular track, while friends leap in desperation from its windows into sedevacantism. While it is apparent that Our Lord’s permissive will has given the devil much power and time to exercise his claim that he can destroy the Church, we might at least find current events less vexing if we properly understood cause and effect. So if we don’t want Sunday sermons explicitly sourced to the kabbalah (yes, it’s already happening), we might want to get eyes on this problem. Opus Dei is far worse than a Trojan Horse within the gates. Although well inside the walls of Ecclesia Militans, it’s more like a huge, crypto-judaic siege-engine built to pulverize every Catholic structure still defended by rag-tag royalists.”
https://cognitivegateway.wordpress.com/2017/12/31/тαℓмυd-in-the-tabernacle/ (https://cognitivegateway.wordpress.com/2017/12/31/тαℓмυd-in-the-tabernacle/)
(http://judaism.is/images/escriva-trash-can.jpg?crc=94074454)
OpusDei has as its core doctrines themes taken almost verbatim from the Baal Shem Tov (aka Israel ben Eliezer; Besht).https://twitter.com/HereIsJorge/status/982575615869153280 (https://twitter.com/HereIsJorge/status/982575615869153280)
See:
Jєωs, Church & Civilization, Volume IV, pp. 139-141.
http://bit.ly/2uRLtPz (http://bit.ly/2uRLtPz)
https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn7s2bqwM7QC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22opus+dei%22+%22chabad%22&source=bl&ots=mHGlntmslR&sig=zKTGNN4UbaC79WVPqe6PUWdAtSY&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22opus%20dei%22%20%22chabad%22&f=false (https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn7s2bqwM7QC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=)
Rabbi Angel Kreiman Links Escriva's Teaching on Work to the тαℓмυdic Tradition
”Rabbi Angel Kreiman recently contended that Josemaria Escriva's teachings are strongly rooted in тαℓмυdic traditions about work. Kreiman, who is the international vice president of the World Council of ѕуηαgσgυєs, made his remarks in an address to a congress in Rome on Opus Dei's founder.…The Rabbi, who is a Cooperator of Opus Dei, said he wanted to demonstrate his special affection for the organization founded by Josemaria Escriva. ‘Opus Dei members helped me, right from the beginning of my seminary studies, to persevere in my vocation,’ he said, ‘and I have also seen them do it with other rabbis, for which I am deeply grateful.’”
https://web.archive.org/web/20020213091115/www.opusdei.org/art.php?p=3007
(https://web.archive.org/web/20020213091115/www.opusdei.org/art.php?p=3007)etc., etc. etc.
(https://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2007/07/opus-judei-founder-escriba-preached.html)