Design List archive contains an earlier reference to the OPUS DEI organization in relationship to its new architecture in NYC. However, this reference is meant to make clear by contrast the DYA aspect of the organization.
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http://www.strathmore.edu/opusdei/hist_overview.html
1933. The first centre of Opus Dei was opened in Madrid: the DYA Academy, mainly for students, where classes in law and architecture were given.
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http://www.josemariaescriva.info/index.php?id_cat=219&id_scat=35
In 1930, Isidoro Zorzano, a young engineer, a former schoolmate of Father Josemaría's in Logroño, asked to be admitted to Opus Dei. Others followed suit. The founder felt the urgent need for a place for formation to provide unity and visibility. The apostolic instrument he had in mind would be a civil entity permeated with a Christian spirit. And so the DYA Academy was begun in 1933. Here supplementary classes in law and architecture were given in an apartment with a plaque on the door with these three letters on it, DYA, the Spanish initials for Derecho y Arquitectura (Law and Architecture). But for Father Josemaría and the students, the acronym also held a deeper significance: Dios y audacia ("God and daring"). And the daring was not lacking, since it ran on a shoe-string budget.
In reality it was more than an educational initiative. It was a place for the Christian formation of college students, who could also receive spiritual direction, a formation entirely aimed at personal identification with Christ. In the reception room, a black wooden cross (without our Lord) hung on the wall. If someone wondered what it meant, his explanation was "It is waiting for the crucified figure that it lacks, and that . . . has to be you."
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In 1933, in spite of the great economic difficulties, the first apostolic company of the Opus Dei. began was called Academy DYA and was located in a building that raised in the corner of the streets of Luchana and Juan of Austria. The name had a double meaning, because the letters as much made reference to the lessons that distributed (Straight and Architecture) like a the spirit who animated the company (God and Audacia). The Academy, next to those professional lessons, also offered cultural and religious formation with them, spiritual meditations and retirements.
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The first center of the work, the DYA academy, began in Madrid in 1933. The initials of the DYA academy correspond to the studies of Law and of Architecture (Derecho y Arquitectura). In reality, to the founder this acronym stood for: "God and Audacity" (Dios y Audacia). A tireless worker, Don Josemaría would soon become a Doctor in Canon Law, Civil Law and Theology. In 1934, he published a book which, after revision and expansion, would appear in 1939 under the title of "The Way" and which, in 1993, would reach the following publication levels: 3,818,228 copies, 272 editions in 39 languages. The work contains 999 thoughts-three numbers which are multiples of three, in honor of the Holy Trinity.
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.H.
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http://www.strathmore.edu/opusdei/hist_overview.html
1933. The first centre of Opus Dei was opened in Madrid: the DYA Academy, mainly for students, where classes in law and architecture were given.
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http://www.josemariaescriva.info/index.php?id_cat=219&id_scat=35
In 1930, Isidoro Zorzano, a young engineer, a former schoolmate of Father Josemaría's in Logroño, asked to be admitted to Opus Dei. Others followed suit. The founder felt the urgent need for a place for formation to provide unity and visibility. The apostolic instrument he had in mind would be a civil entity permeated with a Christian spirit. And so the DYA Academy was begun in 1933. Here supplementary classes in law and architecture were given in an apartment with a plaque on the door with these three letters on it, DYA, the Spanish initials for Derecho y Arquitectura (Law and Architecture). But for Father Josemaría and the students, the acronym also held a deeper significance: Dios y audacia ("God and daring"). And the daring was not lacking, since it ran on a shoe-string budget.
In reality it was more than an educational initiative. It was a place for the Christian formation of college students, who could also receive spiritual direction, a formation entirely aimed at personal identification with Christ. In the reception room, a black wooden cross (without our Lord) hung on the wall. If someone wondered what it meant, his explanation was "It is waiting for the crucified figure that it lacks, and that . . . has to be you."
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In 1933, in spite of the great economic difficulties, the first apostolic company of the Opus Dei. began was called Academy DYA and was located in a building that raised in the corner of the streets of Luchana and Juan of Austria. The name had a double meaning, because the letters as much made reference to the lessons that distributed (Straight and Architecture) like a the spirit who animated the company (God and Audacia). The Academy, next to those professional lessons, also offered cultural and religious formation with them, spiritual meditations and retirements.
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http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~vlaisney/lettres/en/99/zc130599200199.htm
The first center of the work, the DYA academy, began in Madrid in 1933. The initials of the DYA academy correspond to the studies of Law and of Architecture (Derecho y Arquitectura). In reality, to the founder this acronym stood for: "God and Audacity" (Dios y Audacia). A tireless worker, Don Josemaría would soon become a Doctor in Canon Law, Civil Law and Theology. In 1934, he published a book which, after revision and expansion, would appear in 1939 under the title of "The Way" and which, in 1993, would reach the following publication levels: 3,818,228 copies, 272 editions in 39 languages. The work contains 999 thoughts-three numbers which are multiples of three, in honor of the Holy Trinity.
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