Strictly Kosher members Opus Dei

CONGRATULATIONS to John Brannigan KCSG, former Deputy Leader of the Greater London Council, on his reaching his 50th year as a member of the Third Order of St Francis. I met John, an old friend since "Catholic Worker" days, at a lunch-time mass in the Actors Church in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, more properly known as Corpus Christi Church, much loved by Francis Thompson, the poet, when he was an outcast drug addict dossing down on the Embankment.
John, in his usual very gentle and Christian manner took me to task for our three recent articles on "Opus Dei". The members he knows, he says, are "strictly Kosher" Catholics. I explained that in reply, we were publishing an article by Ives Mascarhenas, the "Opus Dei" trouble shooter, telling us how "ordinary" Catholics are members. I am still looking for an "Opus Dei" taxidriver or farmhand.
Incidentally, the prayers of thanksgiving, in English, said by the celebrant after Communion, in the Corpus Christi Church, are a refreshing innovation.
Sad to relate the Catholic Herald is not on sale in this church where Cardinal Manning preached at the opening pontifical High Mass on October 20, 1874, the first church in England to be dedicated to Corpus Christi since the Reformation.