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| I think he has a new book out of a journalist exnumeraria is not what it's called, but the book is "Being a woman in Opus Dei, someone can tell me anything about her and the book? It has been published in Spain. |
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Sí Crisol, indeed has left a wonderful book called BEING A WOMAN IN THE OPUS DEI Tienpo to remember.
It is written by ELIZABETH ARMS and through the publisher: FOCA.
I bought this morning and I'm coming through the page 59. I highly recommend it.
Although you see on the cover to Saint Josemaría, do not think that is a book of "them".
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| I'm not in Spain, you have something in the book |
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The text that appears on the back cover of the book that I have recommended:
Being a woman in Opus Dei is the faithful and rigorous evidence of a personal experience of a young woman of the sixties who went into the work thinking that it could meet its vocation of Christian detachment and refused to be trapped by powerful springs of personal control and psychological functioning in the secretive institution created by Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer. Isabel de Armas sees how Opus Dei is the inside: how blind discipline encourages its partners, how to invade every corner of your privacy, how they are deprived of the possibility of establishing relationships in a equal footing ... and how this affects double standard about women, at which pushes a life of mediocrity and subservience. The setting of the hierarchy of Opus Dei by money and power, the eccentricities of Monsignor Escrivá, his machismo foolproof, the angry and cruel persecution of dissidents ... This book is no reckoning: only an honest inventory of events experienced in first person by a young man capable of thinking for themselves. Of facts that speak for themselves and forces us to ask what is meant by holiness Karol Wojtyla.
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Thanks Amapola for your information, see if you are up and publish your experience as an assistant in a book numneraria is a shame that all tests are published for older people, and there is nothing for anyone who has recently emerged, serious very interesting indeed, as some of the views that have been pouring in this forum, Chao everyone. |
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Hello crucible, were any of my stories made you think that I have recently come out?, Then no, many years ago, thanks to ..., maybe a depression, I'm out.
But do not kid yourself, do not think the couple now believe (I'm not much) that: "Well, those were different days.
I was there from 15 to 19 years and was so sensitive, so young and person of flesh and blood as any girl can be today. And that experience really hurt and still hurts.
They took my adolescence, I stole the folly of youth, I was tortured with the worst torture that can exist: to make you torturing yourself, and I was put in a "jail" that though he had never had the doors open had escaped without their consent.
You see I could not, as you ask, write a book about recent experiences. I really do not know if you know write a book, but thanks for intending.
Un abrazo
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Speaking of books, I'm rereading the nephew who wrote a Escriva de Balaguer, Carlos Albas, is called. The book "Opus Dei or fudge the Devil", ed. Planeta, 1992.
NA is my opinion that there is much, much goes through the hills of Ubeda, I liked more than others, but certainly says something interesting. Convey what is said of him in the back of the book, in case anyone cares: A nephew of E. of lagu, after counting and inner struggles of the two branches of the family of the founder of OD, and their painful personal situation (married and separated from a supernumerary 1988) provides an overview of the biography of his uncle, commenting on its main features ... to finish making a harsh critique of the beatification process in which his testimony was not accepted. Finally, is the persecuación which he said would suffer some members of the Work, as it attaches itself aut the support given to Ruiz-Mateos. A single witness who first comes from the very bosom of the Monsignor famiulia. |
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Hello everyone, I've just finished reading the book by Isabel on women in the OD and as someone asked I make some comments:
1. She studied journalism in Madrid and was part of the Work from 1965 to 1974, 9 years. Always working as a reporter and had no internal positions.
2. It has, as they say, a head very well furnished. A woman of great culture, moves beautifully between quotations from philosophers, historians and writers of the twentieth century. His style is very feminine, not feminist, like to describe not only the facts but sociological and historical circumstances surrounding them.
3. You can not say it's an autobiography, but a study on the reality of the female section of the OD in those years. For Spanish readers that we live that time (end of the Franco regime, the French May '68 and its impact in Spain, after the Council and the upheavals that occurred, etc.) is delightful to read as he describes it, with domestic concerns, and as this will influence the practice of the work, charging it of notes, instructions, orders, etc. that were associated with a choking at more individualistic and reflective spirit (also occurred in the same section of men, that what I say).
4. The literary style you have chosen is the letters. Write letters to a hypothetical young friend who is interested in knowing the OD to see if you enter. She will respond by letter at asking questions you will.
5. The various chapters of times called, are not exactly chronological. Time of seduction. Time of indoctrination. Time of exaltation. Time of lucidity. Time disappointment. Time of rupture. Time of revival. Time for reflection.
In all of them from some fact or specific events develops all its reflections.
It is a book that can be difficult to understand in places, if you do not have knowledge of philosophy and psychology. For those interested in the topic is a book well-written and produced, for which the topic would take a little glimpse can be somewhat cumbersome and boring.
There are amusing anecdotes and most abundant of suffering and misunderstanding. It is seen that, although nothing was said during those years there was a major defection of partners with many years of work, which explains all the famous letters (!! The bell!), Arriving from Rome at that time. In short, a readable book, written with honesty and without rancor, fair and instructive to the reader. It does not explain why it took so long to write and publish.
Espero que os sirva. Greetings to all |
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| ... have some anecdote, sorry I'm not in Spain to buy the book.. |
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Dear Friends:
So at least I feel them in the distance.
Wonder that women can share our experiences in thoughtful opus.
The books of Charles Albas and journalist, can you tell me that publishers are well published and when I bring the library by a friend?
I'm from Argentina and number for 8 years. Many, stories, enecdotas, joys and torments that we can share in this forum. Because this forum is so hidden in FoloSoft? Not even mentioned in the list of Forums ...
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Dear Lucy, welcome to the Forum, I hope you do not mind knowing that is mixed and you can share your interests with friends and friends.
The book "Being a woman in Opus Dei" is Isabel de Armas and Serra, publisher Foca (2002) and costs EUR 19.8.
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10 November de 2002 at 17:54:03
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Isabel's book is wonderfully crafted, well written and interesting anecdotes. the author has taken so long to write I guess time heals the wounds left by the opus dei. maybe that's why this letter as you say Volo "without rancor".
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Thanks!! Comprare this book and soon go to my friends / as.
Dear Volo, I referred to la Mujeres Amigas! of this forum because I liked your comments about the books and also because as poke my face in this forum, I threw up 10 "friends" very upset by reading my anecdotes and delightful experiences of life in the opus.
I clarified that I do not care if men and women share these views. And if there are any gay I will not be involved to censure him.  |
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