Vinícius Lima

Another day was drawing to a close in one of the countless Roman cities of the early fourth century. While the increasingly decadent pagans were indulging their unbridled thirst for pleasure, the Christians were preparing to head out stealthily into the deserted alleys to collect the relics of the heroes …

Little John Marie Vianney, just four years old, was still playing when, on the other side of the world, a prophecy was published about… St. John Marie Vianney. In that year of 1790, Fr. Manuel Sousa Pereira, OFM, published in the city of Quito, Ecuador, a revelation that the Mother …

In a beautiful play on words, replicated by countless Saints in subsequent centuries, St. Bernard of Clairvaux teaches us that “the measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.”1 Love! This is the only response that man, created by an act of supreme divine gratuitousness, can offer his …

M any spoke out in that parliament; some shouted, others uttered empty words – everyone at the same time, without order or respect. In a corner, one man was analysing the scene: while the majority vied to have their say, he kept silent, attentive to the attitude of those around …