August 5, 1982 was the date that John Paul II approved Opus Dei as a Personal Prelature and ordered it established and published on August 23, 1982, the anniversary of the locution received by8/23/71 by St. Josemaria Escriva: “Adeamus cum fiducia ad thronum gloriae ut misericordiam consequamur.
Explanation of St. Josemaria afterwards: "Voy a
deciros algo que Dios Nuestro Senor quiere que sepais. Los hijos de Dios en el
Opus DeiAdeamus cum fiducia – hemos de ir con much fe – ad
thronum gloriae, al trono de la gloria, la Virgen Santisima, Madre de
Dios y Madre Nuestra, a la que tantas veces invocamos como Sedes Sapientiae, ut
misericordiam conse- quamur, para alcanzar misericordia (…).
"Que lo tengais muy en cuenta en estos momentos y tambien despues. You diria que es un querer de Dios: que metamos Nuestra vida interior personal dentro de esas palabras que os acabo de decir. A veces las escuchareis sin ruido ninguno, en la intimdad de vuestra alma, cuando menos lo espereis. Adeamus cum fiducia: id – repito –en confianza al Corazon Dulcisimo de Maria, que es Madre nuestra y Madre de Jesus. Y con Ella, que es Medianera de todas las gracias, al Corazon Sacratisimo y Misericordioso de Jesucristo.”
Footnote 55 on p. 426 of V. de P Vol III: “Archbishop Julian Herranz tells us something interesting. He heard about this supernatural incident from the founder himself, shortly after the return from Caglio. At this time the work on Cavabianca… had already begun, and the Father asked that they put there a stone bas-relief which would show our Lady seated on a throne and being crowned by the Blessed Trinity. At its base would be engraved the words of the locution. The Father suggested that while they awaited the juridical solution to the institutional problem of the Work, those words should be prayed as an aspiration, to obtain from our Lady the desired solution. That was a suggestion that his children acted on for years. ‘And so,’ concludes Archbishop Herranz, ‘very great were our joy and our gratitude to the Blessed Virgin when the Pope (who knew nothing about this) made public his decision to establish Opus Dei as a personal prelature on August 23, 1982 – the anniversary of the special divine light received by the founder eleven years earlier.”
"Que lo tengais muy en cuenta en estos momentos y tambien despues. You diria que es un querer de Dios: que metamos Nuestra vida interior personal dentro de esas palabras que os acabo de decir. A veces las escuchareis sin ruido ninguno, en la intimdad de vuestra alma, cuando menos lo espereis. Adeamus cum fiducia: id – repito –en confianza al Corazon Dulcisimo de Maria, que es Madre nuestra y Madre de Jesus. Y con Ella, que es Medianera de todas las gracias, al Corazon Sacratisimo y Misericordioso de Jesucristo.”
Footnote 55 on p. 426 of V. de P Vol III: “Archbishop Julian Herranz tells us something interesting. He heard about this supernatural incident from the founder himself, shortly after the return from Caglio. At this time the work on Cavabianca… had already begun, and the Father asked that they put there a stone bas-relief which would show our Lady seated on a throne and being crowned by the Blessed Trinity. At its base would be engraved the words of the locution. The Father suggested that while they awaited the juridical solution to the institutional problem of the Work, those words should be prayed as an aspiration, to obtain from our Lady the desired solution. That was a suggestion that his children acted on for years. ‘And so,’ concludes Archbishop Herranz, ‘very great were our joy and our gratitude to the Blessed Virgin when the Pope (who knew nothing about this) made public his decision to establish Opus Dei as a personal prelature on August 23, 1982 – the anniversary of the special divine light received by the founder eleven years earlier.”
Opus Dei was not publically
proclaimed a Personal Prelature until November 28, 1982, the first Sunday of
Advent. The reason it was not proclaimed
on August 23 to coincide with the above locution (as the pope wanted)was a
mistaken leak of those constitutional documents to the media which jeopardized
the privileged silence of office needed for the private and free consultation
with the respective bishops throughout the world for their free acceptance of
Opus in their dioceses as a Personal Prelature. John Paul II, being informed of
this state of affairs, for the sake of prudence, decided to delay the public notification from the Vatican
until November 28 when everyone and everything would be in place and duly
notified and consulted with no surprises.
cf. Vazquez de Prada Vol. III
425-430.
After
the locutions of 1970 and 1971, consider
the following flurry of apostolic activity: Summer of 1972: Two months of Catechesis is thought up and begun
– interspersed with the Escriva’s three “Last Madnesses.” The building of Cavabianca,
the building of Torreciudad and Morir
a Tiempo [to die on time].
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