Opus Dei means "work of God" in Latin. At the Montrose School in Medfield, it means educating girls to be leaders with "faith, character, and vision," said the independent Catholic institution's head, Karen E. Bohlin.
For Mary Brennan, a Franklin mother of six, it is a search for divinity in everyday life as she cares for her children and works part time. "It's faith in practice," said Brennan, who prays several times a day, using a rosary, Latin readings, and the New Testament. "As Catholics, it's making a connection between work and faith."
Eighty years after being founded in Spain by St. Josemaria Escriva, Opus Dei remains an under-the-radar extension of Catholicism that is often misunderstood, adherents say. Yet it maintains a thriving presence in Greater Boston, with about 300 members, centers in Chestnut Hill, Boston's Back Bay, Cambridge, and Pembroke, and the affiliated school in Medfield for girls in grades 6 through 12.
- Erica Noonan
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