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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

The Unimaginable and the Dream Meet

When there is a society – that is, an entire social body – that lives in unison, artists appear who, imbued with the same desire, make what that society wishes. And the work of art is a consonance – of one or a few men, endowed with special talents for …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, December 2024

The Wondrous Fragrance of Christmas

Nothing could be more opportune, on the occasion of Christmas, than for us to comment on the advent of the Incarnate Word into the world, born of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. These considerations are based on the writings left by the seer Anne Catherine Emmerich,1 a 19th-century German mystic favoured …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 30, November 2024

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

“Save Me, Holy Queen!”

I had a habit of getting up late on Sundays, but that day I got up very early because I was no longer tired and could not sleep any more. So I decided to go to Mass at the Salesian church – the Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 30, April 2024

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