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Splendour, at the Crossroads of History…

Versailles was built in a context that could, from a certain point of view, be called a crossroads in history. The starting point of the Middle Ages was the invasion of the barbarians into the Roman Empire and their mixing with the decadent Europeans of that territory. Plunged into a …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, July 2024

The Origins of Ash Wednesday

To fully understand the Church’s intention in instituting the Ash Wednesday ceremony, it is necessary to consider its origins, as well as the impact it had on the historic period in which it was established. Therefore, we must turn our attention to a distant past, since this liturgical practice, like …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, January 2021

The Founder of an Era of Faith

A young man with an extraordinary vocation, from a senatorial and patrician family, decided to give himself completely to divine grace. It spoke to him in the depths of his soul: “My son, I want you, and I want you entirely. Will you give yourself completely?” And he replied: “Yes, …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 30, June 2024

Shield and Sword of the Church

Regarding St. Michael the Archangel, we have a brief note: “St. Michael, Prince of the heavenly hosts, fought the rebellious angels in the war that arose in Heaven. It is his duty to continue this fight to free us from the devil. The Guardian Angels depend on him. He is …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, August 2024

Rules for the Aesthetics of the Universe

Considering creation, we can ask ourselves why God, being infinitely perfect and having in himself all plenitude, wished to create the immense quantity of beings that make up the universe. While it is true that there was no reason why He could not give existence to the cosmos, on the …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, July 2023

Sublime Intimacy Between Child and Mother

The invocation of Our Lady of Good Counsel may appear, at first sight, not to bear much relation to the fresco. The latter portrays a Queen of a small Balkan country, which can be perceived in the figure, the ornaments, and above all in the distinctly eastern traits, with her …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, March 2021

The Sublime Conquest of the Apex of Suffering

When we analyse each step of the Passion, whether physical or spiritual, we notice that Our Lord was spared nothing. He entered the deepest abyss of pain with a hero’s stride, took on every possible suffering and presented himself resplendent with suffering before the justice of the Eternal Father. And …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 29, February 2024

Meditations of a Boy on the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Iremember with emotion that Our Lady arranged things in such a way that I resided near a church so full of blessings as the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.1 There I attended Sunday Mass with my parents from the earliest times I can remember. This shrine exercised an …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, May 2021

Maternal and Loving Acumen

Our century demands unrivalled astuteness […]. It is necessary, at all costs, to put an end to the disastrous naivety of supposing that every individual who confusedly outlines a vague and incomplete act of faith is implicitly a Roman and Apostolic Catholic worthy of the utmost trust. This mentality is …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, January 2024

We Are All Called to Heroism

My interlocutor mentioned the heroism of the crusaders, the religious, the martyrs and a series of other forms of heroism. What is common among all of them? Between the heroism of the martyrs and that of the crusaders, for example? These could almost be called opposite heroisms, for that of …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 28, February 2023

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