Sr. Lucilia Lins Brandão Veas

“Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation” (Gn 12:1-2). Over the millennia, Abraham’s descendants have repeated this passage countless times, marking the beginning of the great patriarch’s vocation. The …

When biographical accounts of a saint are not plentiful, turning to his works and their fruits is a sure-fire way to make great discoveries about his person. In the case of St. Luke, the piety of the faithful would like to know who his parents were, how he spent his …

“I am grateful to you for the honour that Your Majesty has done me by increasing the number of your household officers in my person.”1 The above words were addressed to Louis XIV by one of his subjects. Was this the beginning of a speech by a troop commander? Or …

Like a master “who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old” (Mt 13:52), the Divine Paraclete always makes new aspects of the Holy Church’s doctrine and spirituality shine forth within her over the course of the centuries. Thus, from one of the oldest cults of …