To avoid sinking into despair, the human spirit needs to find repose in dignified and well-ordered things. Let us ask St. Raphael the Archangel for the desire to make earth similar to Heaven and thus prepare ourselves for the Reign of Mary and eternal beatitude. S t. Raphael, as one of the most eminent…
The devotion of the Rosary has tremendous power and substance. It does not involve merely emotions, but is serious and full of reflection. Through it, the spiritual life of the Catholic is built up as a solid and splendid edifice of certainties. To fully understand the value of devotion to the Holy Rosary, let…
To perceive the excellence of every creature and appreciate the aspect by which it reflects God is a gift that prepares us, by way of affinity, for Heaven. H uman society is made up of what the Church calls the spiritual order and the temporal order. The first directly concerns the supernatural and the…
In the hope of reviving confidence in a new flourishing on earth of the sacral atmosphere of Christmases of yesteryear, Dr. Plinio recounts some facts from his later childhood. After a year of struggles, sufferings and difficulties, we are approaching the feast of Holy Christmas, which, in my opinion, has the characteristic of making…
Dr. Plinio’s desire to serve the Church wisely and effectively turned a simple parish publication called “Legionário” into Brazil’s most combative and influential Catholic newspaper. At the age of twenty-five, I felt that I was born to serve the Catholic Church. It was she who gave meaning to my existence. And the more I…
At the end of the 60s, it was Dr. Plinio’s custom to invite some of his disciples, including some coming from other countries, to conversations on Saturday afternoons in the Giordano Pizzeria situated on Brigadeiro Luís Antônio Avenue. This simple and unpretentious location was for many years the setting for affectionate conviviality between father and…
Speaking about the important role of tendencies and of ideas in the confrontation between the Revolution and Counter-Revolution, Dr. Plinio analyses the power of Public Opinion and the influence exercised in society by those he calls key men. It is possible to establish a real doctrine regarding the power of Public Opinion. To begin with,…
In the three days during which Our Lord lay dead, all seemed irremediably lost in the eyes of those who had known Him, with the exception of Mary Most Holy. “He died!” they thought. “They have rolled a stone over the entrance to the sepulchre, and darkness envelopes His Body. All is over; nothing more…
I know no countenance equal to this one. I have it right in front of me and, moved by an inveterate habit of observing and making everything explicit for my own purposes, I gaze at it attentively. And suddenly I perceive that I am entering it. Indeed, this unique expression emanates from the face and…
One day, Plinio was in gymnastics class at St. Louis College, where he studied.1 As he would later recount, the area was framed by elegant and graceful bamboo trees, planted with well-aligned and symmetrical regularity on a ground covered with pure white sand. Contemplating that magnificent arrangement of nature, he was profoundly touched by a…
