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Help of Christians

The symbolism of this statue is very beautiful. Our Lady has the Child Jesus in one arm and in her other hand She holds a sceptre. This is to show that by the power She had over the Child Jesus, which She conserved throughout her entire life, her omnipotence extends …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 30, April 2015

The Interrelationship of the Three Archangels

We may ask ourselves what relationship exists between the respective roles of the three Archangels: St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael. They seem to constitute a kind of closed circuit, a totality, in the manner of a trinity. How is this “trinity” linked to the entire angelic world? All …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, August 2022

Between Human Vulnerability and Divine Strength

When I was still small, I perceived, perhaps through discernment of spirits, something sublime and beautiful, but did not know how to put it into words. It was not until later, when my mind had progressed, that this explanation took shape. I noticed a distinction between the Church and her …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 30, April 2025

On Pilgrimage Within a Gaze

I know no countenance equal to this one. I have it right in front of me and, moved by an inveterate habit of observing and making everything explicit for my own purposes, I gaze at it attentively. And suddenly I perceive that I am entering it. Indeed, this unique expression …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 30, April 2022

Fruitfulness in the Apostolate

St. Benedict established a network of Religious Orders that spread good morals throughout Europe. At the base of all this is St. Benedict and, by means of the contemplatives, St. Scholastica. St. Scholastica attracted nuns who did not perform social assistance, did not teach catechism; they did “nothing”. In a …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, January 2024

Binding Together the Pages of History

A person studying history in a particular book and considering antiquity – the Egyptians, the Chaldean peoples and other ancient civilizations – comes across crumbling empires and situations that are reborn. When the last page is reached, there is something that always happens at the end of the reading of …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, May 2025

On the Glorious Route of Dead Ends

There is a small statue of Our Lady Help of Christians that has been with us for a long time. It is not a work of art, but a little plaster statue, one of those mass-produced ones that are found everywhere, of a religious style called Saint-Sulpician. Why did I …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, March 2025

The Story of the Repentant Soul

The Miserere belongs to the group of seven psalms called penitential. What is a penitential psalm? Obviously, it is a hymn to God in which the author expresses his repentance. And repentance presupposes that he has sinned, repented and, once this feeling of repentance triumphed within him, he reflected on …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 28, February 2025

The Battle for Souls

As much as people may say otherwise, the phenomena of human society can only be studied in man. Society is a collection of men and therefore we must first analyse the principles that govern the behaviour of human beings and then study how these rules apply to society. The first …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, January 2025

Combative and Serene Purity

Catholic hagiography and iconography present St. Anthony of Padua to us as an exceedingly placid man, a man whose orderliness of soul is even reflected in the harmonious folds of his Franciscan habit. Indeed, the invariable composure of his vesture is a type of seismograph of the orderliness of his …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, May 2024

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