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I don't know much about Opus Dei, but the "weird" practices that the author discribes were traditionally common among the church's saints. For instance, Thomas More wore a hairshirt, slept on a wooden matress without a pillow, got up in the middle of the night for prayer, and went to prayer several other times during the day, went to daily mass, etc.

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For instance, Thomas More wore a hairshirt, slept on a wooden matress without a pillow, got up in the middle of the night for prayer, and went to prayer several other times during the day, went to daily mass, etc.

And as Chancellor of England, husband, father of 4 who wrote each of his children a letter in Latin every day to help them with their homework when he was on a royal trip, and without the advantages of modern technology, I think he was busier than modern American Senators.

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I don't know much about Opus Dei, but the "weird" practices that the author discribes were traditionally common among the church's saints.

You're right, it's not weird at all. My sister was an active member for a long time, until moving to a place where there was no local house. Ultimately, she decided that, in any case, it was a little too rule-oriented for her. Plus it was very Novus Ordo oriented, and she likes the Tridentine Rite.

So it's hardly "weird," and not even particularly conservative, in many ways.