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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

A Gate of Heaven Opened for the World

The apparitions of the Blessed Virgin to St. Catherine Labouré took place in 1830. The most important of them was on November 27, when Mary revealed the treasure of heavenly gifts destined for the world with the spreading of the Miraculous Medal. We must remember that, at that time, along …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, October 2020

Inexhaustible and Transforming Mercy

Our Lady is present in the uninterrupted struggle that each man wages against his defects, to acquire greater virtues. And even if we do not remember her, Mary intercedes for us from the heights of Heaven, with a mercy that no kind of sin can ever exhaust. For it is …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, December 2024

Affectionate and Confident Children

We ought to be true children towards the Most Holy Virgin, brimming with veneration, affection and confidence. When a mother plays with her toddler by taking a ball from him to have the satisfaction of seeing him retrieve it from her hands, her intention is not to deprive the child …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, October 2024

Holy Guardian Angels - Guardians and Advocates for Men

Due to an obsessive happy-ending mentality, modern optimism is very apt to see no struggle, difficulty or danger in anything. But the Church, on the contrary, teaches us that this life is a combat sown with physical and spiritual risks. For this reason, Divine Providence has appointed an Angel to …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 30, September 2020

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