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Can I Be Forgiven?

I was preaching the novena of the Immaculate Conception. On the last day, I spoke about Confession and, without knowing why, I affirmed that...

Nothing Halfway Pleases Me: Either All or Nothing

Oh, if only mortals – especially my priests and religious souls – knew how much I am wounded and displeased by the indifference, separation,...

Only Those Who Lived at His Side

What history will never be able to tell, what it cannot possibly give to understand is his inner life, his continuous sacrifice, peaceful, gentle,...

Converted by the Blessed Virgin

“On the night of January 19, I woke up with a start and saw before me a huge black cross, of extraordinary appearance and...

The Most Superb Alliance of Heroism and Holiness

Sometimes at the vanguard of the troops, sometimes bringing up the rear, always wherever the risk was greatest, Nuno Álvares summed up within himself...

Children of a Father’s Suffering

Grace always comes alongside sacrifice. purchased his children with prayers, tears and pain. Satan made him pay dearly for them. cost him...

The Cross, Symbol of Honour and Fearlessness

The Cross of Christ and the crosses that we carry for Him are also symbols of our honour. This means receiving humiliation with our...

“Return to My Heart, Which Is All Yours”

With what affection should we embrace and endure all our afflictions, out of love for Jesus, our Saviour, since He first bore them for...

Marvellous Sanctity and Paternal Tenderness

The most painful trial was to leave the house of Rome, where they were able to see their much-beloved Father General, to admire...

To Serve God in Every Walk of Life

Know, my daughter, that on this earth you will not have more than one good day out of a hundred bad ones, because you...

Born to Found and to Govern

Mother Lestonnac amply possessed the mental and moral qualities that she deemed indispensable to carry out her difficult functions. At fifty-four years of age,...

May Whoever Looks at Me See You

A lthough she was a model in everything – writes a sister who had been a novice together with Maria Teresa González-Quevedo – I...