Sr. Maria Cecília Veas

It is proper to a foundation to support the building without being considered or even seen; although indispensable, it remains hidden. The foundations of the Church are the twelve Apostles (cf. Rv 21:14), whose exceptional virtue has moved the devotion of Catholics of all times. However, if the magnitude of …

Like a fortress, the palm tree stands tall, defying the skies, winds and storms. Nothing seems capable of holding it back in its ascension, and no natural factor can easily bring it down to the ground. A symbol of triumph, of bounteousness, of the upright, constant, humble, strong and vigilant …

Judas Iscariot, seeing that Jesus had been condemned to death, went to the Temple to dispose of the unlawful money for which he had sold his Master. Arriving there, shrouded in darkness and filled with despair, he said to the chief priests: “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.” And …

Is there a voice on earth more booming than the bass, deeper than the abysses, more solemn than the requiems sung by the Holy Church? Yes, it is a voice that has resounded since the days of creation, whose language suffered nothing from the confusion of tongues at the Tower …

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is as old as the Church. It was at the Last Supper, the moment when the Eucharist was instituted as a memorial of the Passion that the Beloved Disciple listened to the unfathomable beating of the Divine Heart… And it was at Calvary’s …

“Ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you” (Jb 12:7). If a bird could speak, would we not like to ask it: “Tell us what you see in the vast expanses of the sky? What is it like to face …

It was the 13th century and the noble Lady was ill; pestilential worms were proliferating inside her and threatening to take over her entire body. But she could not die. Who would come to her rescue? Like a remedy drawn from the poison itself, God would bring forth from the …

One of nature’s most beautiful kinds of movement is the play of water throughout the universe. The clouds pour themselves out onto the ground below, watering and preparing the soil for the germination of plants, which embellish the earth and provide food, while other waters are solidified into immense glaciers. …