Service, a Joy – Folha de S. Paulo, September 13, 1980
Imagine then that to your spirit – bruised by life, calloused or even wounded, hot with fever – one of those figures appears about which your childhood innocence, dead now for many years, used to dream. A queen, all majestic and smiling, leads you by the hand into the rays of radiant, peaceful, rainbow-colored light surrounding her in an effort to help you.
Santo Agostinho de Cantuária (27/5) e a verdadeira vitória
Santo do Dia, 28 de maio de 1969 A D V E R T Ê N C I A O presente texto é adaptação de transcrição de gravação de conferência do Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira a sócios e cooperadores da TFP, mantendo portanto o estilo verbal, e não foi revisto pelo autor. Se o Prof. Plinio […]
To You, Dear Atheist – Folha de S. Paulo, August 31, 1980
In today’s scanty moments of leisure, on the contrary, it is the neurotic tumult of disappointments, worries, wild ambitions and exacerbated weariness that rise to the surface. And over this tumult hovers an overwhelming, leaden, and obscure question: “What am I living for?”
Five ‘Pills’ – Folha de S. Paulo, August 23, 1980
Is Brazil becoming a tragic Babel without a tower, summit, or even a clear center… just a whirlpool?
Back to the Tower of Babel? – Folha de S. Paulo, August 12, 1980
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Old, 1563 — Museum Kunsthistorisches, Wien Flawless concord, perfect and eternal peace among all men, all nations, and all doctrines, and complete happiness are not of this world. In this land of exile, shortages, dissensions, and catastrophes are inevitable. And because they are inevitable, a Christian vision […]
Utopia and the Message – Folha de S. Paulo, July 29, 1980
Therefore, imagining a world without struggles and setbacks is like imagining a world without Jesus Christ.
“Say Just One Word…” – Folha de S. Paulo, July 1, 1980
So far, the Universal Church has never faced a crisis as severe as the one it confronts now. In the West, this crisis affects various aspects of spirituality, even among non-believers. It is therefore far more serious than nuclear war because, as long as the world exists, disasters in the spiritual realm will surpass those in the material realm, and that is significant.
Prognosen – „Legionário“ vom 3. September 1933
Die politischen Wirren um die Leitlinien, die die Delegationen aus Minas Gerais in der künftigen Verfassungsgebenden Versammlung verabschieden werden, haben die verschiedenen Meinungsströmungen innerhalb der Versammlung in den Fokus gerückt. Mirabeau sagte, eine gesetzgebende Versammlung, die die Meinung der Wähler getreu wiedergebe, solle ein Abbild der Nation im Kleinen sein, in dem alle ihre […]
São Felipe Néri (26/5): firmeza do guerreiro católico dotado de coragem
Catolicismo, Março de 2003 (*) São Felipe Néri viveu na Itália no século XVI. Fundou não propriamente uma ordem religiosa, mas uma obra que se chamava Oratório: grupos de padres que moravam juntos. Não faziam os três votos – de pobreza, obediência e castidade — mas sujeitavam-se a um certo regulamento comum. Era grande […]
São Felipe Neri (26/5) e seus portentosos milagres
A dureza da Revolução face aos portentos divinos