Vocation, with no change of state

Anyone can be a member of the Work, if God calls them; their vocation entails no change of state, and consequently, no exterior change. Each person remains in their own place in the world with their own work, their own mentality, the duties of their own state in life, their professional commitments, their duties toward society, and their social relations; because all these relationships are means for their apostolic work as Christians.

Specific formation

The Work of God will give each person its particular supernatural spirit – its specific asceticism – and the necessary doctrinal formation, so that they can sanctify themselves and do Opus Dei precisely in and through those same human realities.

Freedom and personal responsibility

But, within this necessary unity of spirit and formation, each member of the Work acts in the world – in their temporal, professional, cultural, political, social and other activities – with full freedom and, therefore, with personal responsibility: a complete and exclusive responsibility, which they each assume as a natural consequence of their absolute freedom of opinion and action, within the limits of the faith and morals of Jesus Christ.