The Apostolate of Suffering
Jacinta’s mission reveals to us the need for expiatory victims who, with their suffering and the sacrifice of their lives, collaborate so that the words of Our Lady will find fertile ground in the hearts of men. We can therefore comprehend how this apostolate of suffering is truly irreplaceable, and …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
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31, January 2025
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
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31, December 2024
Precursor in the Fight against Heresy
St. John the Evangelist was one of the first fighters against the heresy emergent in his time, regarding the relationship between the human and divine natures of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Thus, the Virgin Apostle, the Apostle of the Heart of Jesus, the Apostle who received Our Lady as his …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
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30, November 2024
You Will Be Embraced as I Was!
The day will come, and it is not far off, when Mary will embrace her faithful children, as She had the goodness to embrace me. Here is a promise that, based on what grace breathes within me, I make to those who read these lines: “If you are true children …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP
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07, November 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
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31, October 2024
Branded with the Cross
Set your eyes on the Crucified and all will seem easy. If His Majesty showed us His love with such tremendous labours and sufferings, how can you want to please Him just with words? Do you know what it means to be truly spiritual people? It means becoming the slaves …
St. Teresa of Jesus
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30, September 2024
Compassionate and Combative Soul
St. Vincent de Paul was at once the saint of combativeness and charity. Combativeness, on two fronts. First, the doctrinal front, in which he diligently fought the Jansenists in Rome, at court, among the nobility, among the clergy, among the people, in a political and strategic manner, with his immense …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
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31, August 2024
Eagle of Human Thought
The eagle is extremely beautiful at the moment when it takes flight. However, even more beautiful is human thought when expressed in a way that conveys its flight. Such is that of St. Augustine: in his impelling surges of soul, he reveals incomparable flight.
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
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31, July 2024
To Be for Her as Elisha Was for Elijah
When Mary lives in someone, it is not She who lives, but it is Jesus Christ who lives in that someone. And to set limits to Our Lord would be truly absurd. Therefore, I should want an unlimited surrender to the Blessed Virgin. This surrender presupposes, first of all, fervour, …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
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30, June 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
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31, May 2024