Reconciling the Smallest with the Supreme
Imagine a beautiful, quiet chapel. The soft light passing through the multicoloured stained-glass window, warm and welcoming, seems to be enriched by the sublime Gregorian melody being sung, the hymn Alleluia Virga Iesse. It is only natural that two wonders that spring from the same source should harmonize so perfectly: …
Santiago Vieto Rodríguez
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30, November 2024
On the Rock I Will Build My Challenge
The mineral universe has always exerted a mysterious and paradoxical fascination on humanity. Man is incomparably nobler than stone, which is lifeless and has no movement; however, the same attributes that make it inferior to us confer upon it a form of superiority: because they are immobile, they become in …
Raúl Rios
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07, November 2024
“Pay Attention!”
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 …
Sr. Maria Cecília Veas
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31, October 2024
An Open-Arms Invitation
Anyone who studies history, and specifically the history of the Church, learns about the countless struggles for the Faith that have been waged over the centuries. What efforts expended in favour of the Mystical Bride of Christ in these struggles! How many lives cut down, that their true fruits might …
Sr. Clara Paloma Iavorka
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30, September 2024
Illuminated Cross, Crucified Light
Tradition has coined the saying “Per crucem ad lucem – Through the cross to the light,” to denote that through our daily labours and struggles we rise to the divine light. But can we say that the opposite expression, “Per lucem ad crucem – By the light to the cross,” …
Fr. Felipe de Azevedo Ramos, EP
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31, August 2024
The Watchtower
In a sky that seems forever blue, the sun shines down with all its brilliance upon the placid waves of the sea, which sparkle like crystal as they collide with one another. Birds glide gracefully over the turquoise waters, composing melodies in harmony with the light breeze that gently sways …
Lorena Mello
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31, July 2024
Patroness of the Armada
“Flos Carmeli, vitis florigera, splendor cæli, Virgo puerpera, singularis. Mater mitis, sed viri nescia, carmelitis da privilegia, stella maris – Flower of Carmel, blossoming vine, splendour of Heaven, Mother divine, none like Thee. Mother Mild, whom no man didst know, upon thy Carmelites favour bestow, O Star of the Sea.” …
Sr. María José Tefel
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30, June 2024
Plinio and the Heart of Jesus
Located in the city of São Paulo, in the neighbourhood of Campos Elíseos, the Sacred Heart of Jesus Shrine is worthy of special mention among Brazilian Catholic churches. The building’s origin dates back to 1881, when under the care of the Vincentians, the foundation stone of a chapel was laid. …
Javier Antonio Vásquez
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31, May 2024
My Mother, Help Me to Fly!
“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 …
Sr. Maria Cecília Veas
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30, April 2024
The “Quadrinho” of Dona Lucilia - Ineffable Presence
There are certain places on earth which, by a mysterious design of Providence, have been indelibly marked by people. Visitors who pass by them feel, in the warmth of the stones, the swaying of the trees and even in the shadows cast upon the ground, something of the divine blessings …
Caroline Fugiyama Nunes
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31, March 2024