Fr. Rodrigo Fugiyama Nunes, EP

“If I had met St. Louis Grignion de Montfort five minutes before his death,” Dr. Plinio once said, “I would have knelt down, kissed his feet, and urged him: ‘Be even more devoted to Our Lady!’”1 The boldness of this exhortation, given to the greatest of Mariologists, presupposes a life …

By revelation from Our Lord and solemn definition from the Church, we know that there is an eternal destiny after our death: Heaven or hell, depending on how we have lived. No one escapes this, as we are taught in this Sunday’s Gospel, in which a rich man is condemned …

“What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand” (Jn 13:7). This phrase addressed by Our Lord to St. Peter, during the washing of the feet, easily springs to the mind of anyone looking to discuss the mystical life of Msgr. João. The impressions are …

How interesting it would be if there were a book entitled The Theology of Weeping, in which we could study in depth what really lies behind man’s tears, the physical expression of the sentiments of his soul. In fact, there are as many types of tears as there are different …

The idea that God saves us in the storms of life is very beautiful, quite common, and entirely real. But it is much less common to consider divine goodness taking us out of the calm and casting us into the midst of storms, with the risk of sinking… Right after …