What is..... or.... who is........... 'OPUS DEI' ?

Question

............Good informations.

But I have heared that OPUS DEI is a cult of Christians who believe in giving too much pain to their bodies by beating and torturing self.

Their main beleif is that the pain is beautiful and pain gives pleasure and that without torturing yourself you can not reach God. Therefore the followers of this cult chain themselves with barbs, beat themselves, and torture themselves in all possible manners.

How many such cults are there in Christianity ?


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Answer 1

The name means "work of god".
It is an organisation within the Catholic church, founded by a Spanish priest in the early days of the Franco regime.
It has a hierarchical structure, there are priest and lay members, and it is devoted to further the faith, among other things by getting its members into key positions in gouvernment and industry. Its methods are often said to be unscrupulous, in the Machiavellian tradition that "the end justifies the means", and the members are meant to follow practices of "mortifying the flesh" that have elsewhere gone out of fashion with the inquisition. There are many Catholics who disapprove of Opus Dei and distance themselves from it, among them members of the hierarchy, but the last pope made the founder a candidate for sainthood and it seems the current administration also approves of their activities. (surprise, surprise)

Answer 2

Opus Dei, formally known as The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, is a personal prelature of the Catholic Church that teaches the Catholic belief that everyone is called to holiness and that ordinary life is a path to sanctity.

Answer 3

Read the Davinci Code. The story is fictional, but many of the references he used were real, Opus Dei is one of them. Or look it up on Wikipedia.

Answer 4

Well I know that "Agnus Dei" means Lamb of God so.....

Opus Dei obviously has something to do with God

Answer 5

Opus Dei literally means` God`s work` and it is a apostalate of clerics and lay people in the Catholic church.
Here is a linkfor more info;
http://www.odan.org/what_is_opus_dei.htm

Answer 6

Opus Dei is a Catholic institution founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá. Its mission is to help people turn their work and daily activities into occasions for growing closer to God, for serving others, and for improving society.

Answer 7

My latin is rusty - I'm guessing DEI is a plural form of God, but opus either means EYE or WORK, so

Either God's/Gods' eye, or God's/Gods' work... take your pic.

Answer 8

It is a group of individuals that live close tho the vatican that live as a secret society, at leas tmost of them are not known to be outright members even though we know they exist. Theirs is a life of physical atonement of sin and religious fervence unlike anything ever known in the common times. You can google them and find a great deal of info on the practices and such. Scary if you ask me.

Answer 9

It's a Catholic lay organization that promotes traditional values.

Answer 10

A prelature in the Catholic Church, or a fictional group of people in the movie "DaVinci Code."