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Music and Saint Josemaría. scabious2 on Mar 27, 2011 With St Josemaria's help, it became less of a drug and I learned I could set my own priorities and live for God. John, premier violoncelle de …More
Music and Saint Josemaría.
scabious2 on Mar 27, 2011 With St Josemaria's help, it became less of a drug and I learned I could set my own priorities and live for God.
John, premier violoncelle de l'Orchestre symphonique de Kitchener.
John, learned from St Josemaria that making a place for God in his life meant he could find the right place for his family and friends too, without abandoning his music.
"My name is John and I play the cello. I have been playing the cello since I was 11 years old. I am the principal cellist of the Kitchener-Waterloo symphony orchestra. I first heard about Opus Dei from a friend of mine who was a musician. I wasn't a Catholic at that point. I was involved in other things. I was really impressed by this friend of mine in the orchestra. There was a point where I caught him playing the violin for God. So to speak. Music became a little bit less of a drug for me.
Books, paintings, music, these are beautiful things. But you can kind of turn them into an end in …More
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With St Josemaria's help, (Music), it became less of a drug and I learned I could set my own priorities and live for God.
John, premier violoncelle de l'Orchestre symphonique de Kitchener.
John, learned from St Josemaria that making a place for God in his life meant he could find the right place for his family and friends too, without abandoning his music.
"My name is John and I play the cello. I …More
With St Josemaria's help, (Music), it became less of a drug and I learned I could set my own priorities and live for God.
John, premier violoncelle de l'Orchestre symphonique de Kitchener.
John, learned from St Josemaria that making a place for God in his life meant he could find the right place for his family and friends too, without abandoning his music.

"My name is John and I play the cello. I have been playing the cello since I was 11 years old. I am the principal cellist of the Kitchener-Waterloo symphony orchestra. I first heard about Opus Dei from a friend of mine who was a musician. I wasn't a Catholic at that point. I was involved in other things. I was really impressed by this friend of mine in the orchestra. There was a point where I caught him playing the violin for God. So to speak. Music became a little bit less of a drug for me.

Books, paintings, music, these are beautiful things. But you can kind of turn them into an end in themselves. To live for them totally. Didn't work out that way for me after I started to try and offer it up to God.

Well eventually I got married and had a family. I do these things for them too. Set the priorities right. So that's one thing that changed I think. Because I could have just gone crazy there. Totally immersed in it. You can't take it with you, you know? It's really a means.

Musicians are famous for being eccentric. Especially composers. You have Beethoven who struggled so much to compose his music. Just tearing his hair out. Just suffered so much, really struggled hard. Then you had Mozart who... it seemed to just flow effortlessly out of his body, music. And he just put it down. Beautiful. And then you look at their lives and they were a mess. Mozart gambled a lot or whatever. All kinds of things. How could this person... What is with the sublime music and everything? Well they were just talented.

They were great. They could do it. They had this fantastic gift and they certainly focused on that. And did that, you know. But I've always felt this is not the way it has to be. It doesn't have to conflict.

So if I have a regular plan of where I try to live my faith out during the day. This really does help me to put the music in its place. It's a wonderful thing. But it's not everything."
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Women are called to bring to the family, to society and to the Church, characteristics which are their own and which they alone can give: their gentle warmth and untiring generosity, their love for detail, their quick-wittedness and intuition, their simple and deep piety, their constancy... A woman's femininity is genuine only if she is aware of the beauty of this contribution for which there is no substitute and if she incorporates it into her own life.

To fulfil this mission, a woman has to develop her own personality and not let herself be carried away by a naive desire to imitate, which, as a rule, would tend to put her in an inferior position and leave her unique qualities unfulfilled. If she is a mature person, with a character and mind of her own, she will indeed accomplish the mission to which she feels called, whatever it may be. Her life and work will be really constructive, fruitful and full of meaning, whether she spends the day dedicated to her husband and children or whether, having given up the idea of marriage for a noble reason, she has given herself fully to other tasks.
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