Opus

"Sister, would you like for us to get you anything?"
The couple had a bucket of popcorn between them.

"Oh no, no... thank you! That is very thoughtful of you. I am fine," I murmured as the lights were dimmed in the theater. Good friends had bought us tickets for "There Be Dragons" last Friday evening.

Dragons.
One wonders how well the dragons were tamed in the show.
And so, one does what Josemaria Escriva would've done.
“My role is to hide and disappear, so that only Jesus shines forth.”

Half of the movie was suppose to be about Josemaria.
He got 25% the most.
And he's the one that actually existed, from 1902 to 1976.

Manolo, his antithesis in the movie, got 60% share of the movie.
And is fake, a made-up character.
And his dragons roam further than the movie screen. Anger, jealousy, obsession.

“My role is to hide and disappear, so that only Jesus shines forth.”
It seems as if Josemaria Escriva did disappear from the story line.
Yet, he tamed his dragons. His group, Opus Dei, has more than 90,000 member worldwide.

Opus Dei.
The last time Hollywood mentioned Opus Dei, it was for Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, a blatantly inaccurate historical novel and movie. It is even misunderstood by its Catholic peers.

Perhaps because its founder, Josemaria Escriva, always understood that every good work will encounter difficulties. Especially the Work of God (English translation of the Latin word, "Opus Dei").

Since even Jesus himself was misunderstood.
"These works that I perform testify on my behalf." (John 5:36)


More about Saint Josemaria Escriva and Opus Dei: http://www.josemariaescriva.info/section/biographical-profile

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