The Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima The Third Apparition — July 13, 1917 Mr. Marto, father of Jacinta and Francisco, says that when the third apparition began, a little grayish cloud hovered over the holm oak, the sunlight diminished, and a cool breeze blew over the mountain range, even though … Read more
June 11, 2011 saw one more parade to glorify the vice of homosexuality. Dubbed, Europride or Eurogaypride, it was held in Rome, once known as the Eternal City, the center of Catholicism. The expression, “homosexual pride” summarizes the essence of the homosexual ideology. Let us see how. Pride and Revolt Against God … Read more
Three days before Jesus Christ was brutally executed, He sat on top of Mount Olivet and patiently explained the process of universal and Church history through the ages (Matt. 24), from the viewpoint of Divine Providence. Among the more striking images of His multi-faceted vision, He saw the various natural disasters that would … Read more
There is a tendency nowadays to depict saints as people who bypass the realities of life and somehow attain sanctity with little effort. Here we have two pictures of Saint Anthony of Padua. The first is a fresco in the basilica dedicated to the saint in Padua, Italy, and it is the … Read more
The Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima The Second Apparition — June 13, 1917 Preceding the second apparition, the seers once again saw a great brilliance, which they called lightning, but which was really the glare of the approaching light. Some of the approximately fifty spectators who had come to the … Read more
A famous daily newspaper has a popular Sunday supplement called, “News of the Week in Review.” Tragic natural disasters have been multiplying at such a horrible rate that the newspaper could easily publish another Sunday section called “Disasters of the Week in Review.” Violent earthquakes, deadly tornados, tsunamis and extraordinary flooding have … Read more
Contemporary man feels very much attracted to God’s mercy, more so than his forerunners in bygone eras. Man’s Smallness, God’s Infinity Is this attraction due to the countless wars that marked the last century and still mark the present? Or is it an effect of the continuing series of natural disasters that … Read more
The Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima The First Apparition — May 13, 1917 The three seers were playing at the Cova da Iria when they saw two flashes like lightning, after which they saw the Mother of God appear above the holm oak. She was, according to the description of … Read more
“The most important person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. “She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral – a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s body… “The angels have not … Read more
""""[vc_column_text] The text used in these insightful meditations on the fourteen Stations of the Cross, is taken from the book The Way of the Cross written by Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. O Sorrowful Mother, in these times wherein the immense majority of men flee from the sacrifice inherent to the … Read more