El minuto heroico: Yo también dejé el Opus Dei

The only people hating on this film are in or involved with Opus Dei. They have their bias. Meanwhile, people who escaped Opus Dei know all too well how true these stories are. Let the public beware: Opus Dei is a dangerous high demand religion that has destroyed the lives of thousands of ex members with little to no oversight by the Catholic Church. They want your children to make a vocational commitment as early as 14.5 years old and they LIE when they try to tell you people cannot join until they are adults. They are using half truths and your ignorance of their statutes and canon law to make you try to believe them. If you value your life and the lives of your loved ones you will Stay Away from Opus Dei.

The testimonies portrayed in The Heroic Minute are 100% accurate. As a survivor of Opus Dei abuses myself and knowing some of the other survivors featured in the series, I can personally testify to the truth of their experiences. The series courageously shines a light on the hidden abuses and coercive control within Opus Dei, a truth that has remained buried for far too long.

It's disheartening, though predictable, to see the Opus Dei marketing machine mobilizing early with negative reviews. It is highly likely that many of these reviewers haven't even seen the program but are simply following orders from Opus Dei directors to undermine the series and its brave producers.

The truth must come out. Church authorities must act now to prevent Opus Dei from targeting minors for exploitation and spiritual abuse. This kind of harm cannot be allowed to continue in silence.

Well done to all involved in The Heroic Minute for their immense bravery in sharing their stories and standing up to such a powerful institution. Your courage will inspire countless others.

My daughter was a numerary member of Opus Dei for many years. During those years, we lost her as a family. It was like having a ghost. She stopped being cheerful, going to the countryside, riding horses, or participating in family gatherings. She didn't even want to attend her high school graduation party. Now I realize that she had been "abducted," and it wasn't so easy for her to see that she was being slowly manipulated within a strange, Spanish, shadowy group. Later, I tried to understand her, but it always felt like dealing with someone who was no longer my daughter: she was a stranger, who only occasionally shared new and strange things that had nothing to do with our family or traditions. I remember clearly telling her that one of the most notable aspects of Opus Dei was its opposition to "upward social mobility," because of its obsession with keeping maids as maids for life.

I was moved and frightened by the first two episodes of the series. The photography, framing, and camera work are excellent. The pacing and introduction of the people are also well done. I'm a visual artist, and I appreciate these details.

Also, what they show is too real. What the victims talk about (it's hard for me to call my daughter a victim too) is clearly a pattern that repeated itself in my daughter and in all the others who lived with her. Thank you for productions like this. I remember my daughter taking me to an Opus Dei center where she lived to watch a documentary about Opus Dei that reminded me of the propaganda productions of the Third Reich. The things one does for their children! But today, the documentary genre redeems itself with this production.

I also left Opus Dei in the second decade of this century.

The docuseries says exactly what I lived through, what we all lived through, in its first few episodes. It's 100% real. So real that it hurts. So real that it makes you want to stop the playback, open the window, and scream: Why do they do things so wrong in that institution???

J. K. Rowling's latest book, The Running Grave, addresses precisely the actions and consequences of religious cult groups. Setting aside the plot elements related to a detective novel, the methods of recruitment, the processes of persuasion, indoctrination, guilt-tripping, idealization of the leader, member categories, exhausting pace of life, money management, etc., couldn't help but remind me over and over again of what I experienced inside Opus Dei. Terrible.

This series is not a Rowling novel (written under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith), but a documentary about my life and the lives of thousands and thousands of us who also left Opus Dei under threats of eternal damnation. Moreover, in my case, when I said I was leaving for good, they tried to convince me that I was mentally unstable (something my psychologist and psychiatrist firmly denied) and that I needed to take pills. Thank God I had the sense to say, "The problem is yours, not mine."

Additionally, the docuseries is very well made, with a great pace. Thank you for remembering the thousands of victims of this institution that does not deserve to take God's name in vain.

I haven't watched the series yet, so I won't give any stars, but for what I've read and seen in interviews about the experiences of these women absolutely breaks my heart.. I'm a current numerary member of Opus Dei, and I'm totally not falling for the "I love Opus Dei and want to defend it so I'll do a technical critique of it as a documentary" reviews, they don't convince even me. What breaks my heart is that members of my own family, which is Opus Dei, have hurt these women so badly. Clearly someone did something very wrong to them. I can imagine how I could end up giving the same kind of testimony if I would have been introduced to the Work through a manipulative bunch of people, which I know exist in it, as anywhere else. But mine has been an experience of genuine love and care, no matter if I stay or leave. And I want to stay, despite having been hurt quite badly at times by other members. I have been hurt in my childhood family as well, and I don't want to leave them either. My heart and prayers are with these women, I pray that they might find further peace and healing in their personal path. I also intensely hope that the people who treated them badly, intentionally or unintentionally, have seriously repented, and legally sued if necessary. We need to learn.