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The Virgin Mother’s Admiration and Affection

As we meditate on the relationship of Mary Most Holy with her Divine Son, still a child, let us consider her adoration, as a creature, towards her God and Creator and, at the same time, the affection of that heavenly Mother towards her only and incomparable Son. Being a model …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, December 2020

Have confidence in Me

My child, have confidence in Me. I want to give you that which you do not have the strength to obtain. Pray to Me; I am your Mother.
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, December 2020

Blessed the Day that Saw Her Birth!

The birth of Our Lady brought to humanity something hitherto unknown: a creature free of any stain, a lily of incomparable beauty that was to gladden the angelic choirs and the whole earth. In the midst of the exile of the corrupt human race, an immaculate being appeared, conceived without …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, August 2020

History’s Most Glorious Event, after the Ascension

The Crowning of Our Lady, by Nicolò di Pietro Montreal Museum of Fine Arts One fact in sacred history that calls our attention is that Our Lord chose to ascend to Heaven before the eyes of men, and that the same happened with the Assumption of Our Lady. Why did …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, July 2020

Soul Full of Enthusiasm and Logic

St. Ignatius of Loyola - Santa Casa, Loyola (Spain) When we analyse St. Ignatius of Loyola’s way of being and acting, we realize that his love and enthusiasm for the institutions and teachings of the Church imparted reflections of those perfections to his own soul, without, however, impinging on his …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 30, June 2020

Mother of Perpetual Help

Virgin of Perpetual Help - Church of the Blessed Trinity, Mexico City What is being specifically praised in the invocation of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is not that the Blessed Virgin Mary helps us often, liberally and tenderly, but the fact that this help is perpetual. Whatever evil we …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, May 2020

Majesty and Suffering

It is not unusual to find charming, venerable, worthy and dignified pictures depicting the Holy House of Nazareth, where the Holy Family dwelt. In general, they endeavour to show it with a diaphanous purity, inundated with the light of a beautifully luminous day. But there is more: a morning brightness …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 30, November 2018

Elevated Spirit and Broad Horizons

St. Helen found the True Cross, an event surrounded by miracles and special favours from God. It is the Holy Wood, from which relics have been distributed for veneration by the faithful throughout the world. What a glory it is for this woman to have been, at the same time, …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, July 2023

As at the Wedding of Cana

Our Lady, simply by placing her virginal hand on a soul full of defects and vices, burdened with sins, can transform it into a sanctuary. Just as through her appeal at Cana, Our Lord's command changed the water into wine, so too the Blessed Virgin can, at any moment, obtain …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 28, February 2025

A Beacon of Catholic Sense

St. Thomas Aquinas was a great beacon which God placed in His Church, enlighten, comfort and encourage souls throughout the centuries so that they might more courageously resist the onslaughts of heresy. With his brilliant intelligence and ardent piety he tackled all the problems which in his time were open …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 30, June 2023

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