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| | The Christian Materialism of Blessed Josemaría Escrivá |
 | | Blessed Josemaria said these zealous defenders of the spirit "have tried to present the Christian way of life as something exclusively spiritual, proper to pure, extraordinary people, who remain aloof from the contemptible things of this world, or at most tolerate them as something necessarily attached to the spirit, while we live on this earth. |
 | | According to Escriva, "the secret" of Opus Dei is not work, but prayer: "If you are not a man of prayer, I don't believe in the sincerity of your intentions when you say that you work for Christ" (The Way, no. 109). |
 | | According to Escriva work carried out with perfection, offered to God and done in God's presence is a prayer: "An hour of study, for a modern apostle, is an hour of prayer" (The Way, no. 335). |
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