♦️Returning to the ways of integrity

The human soul is suited to suffering. Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira designates this as a sufferative’ aptitude which consists in a “type of capacity and need to suffer.” Just as muscles need exercise to maintain tone, so do we-after having been expelled from Paradise and having forfeited the gift of integrity-need to undergo suffering to correct our disordered nature. And when our faculty for suffering is not exhausted by effective suffering, it triggers a sensation of frustration that is greater than actual suffering. The life with the least suffering is a life of suffering.

Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias
New Insights on the Gospels V, pp. 325-326

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller visited the Heralds of the Gospel in Brazil. The Herald Magazine for June will contain an extensive report on the event and an interesting interview with the Cardinal. Here is the cover of the Portuguese edition.

​​​​⚜️The question could be raised: during this time of such great change, what role did Dona Lucilia play?

More than anything else, hers was a role of heroic fidelity to tradition and to Catholic principles.

Dona Lucilia, p. 410

♦️Our glory should also be in suffering

Let us joyfully consider that our stay on earth is passing, for, if we were to remain here forever, these torments would continue in a fluctuating and indefinite succession. Therefore, for those who bravely confront trial in imitation of Our Lord, death will signify true rest. This is why the Church chants in the Liturgy of the Dead: “requiescant in pace — may they rest in peace.”

Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias
New Insights on the Gospels V, pp. 329-331

♦️“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”

However, with rational beings, God did not place in them merely a trace, but made them in His image. An example may help us grasp this. Our society values the camera, because it allows us to keep memories of those moments in life that we would like to relive. Now, a photograph is only an inanimate reproduction of an event, and yet it still retains something of the reality. We are ‘photographs’ in which the Three Persons of the Most Blessed Trinity are pleased to recognize Their image and to love Themselves in this reflection, contemplating, in act, the plan conceived for each one of us from all eternity.

Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias
New Insights on the Gospels V, pp. 332-334

🔔 Here is this week’s study of Dona Lucilia.

She predicted that “The Europe we will have . . . will no longer be desirable to see, unless our Catholic religion is victorious in the fight against the Russian invaders.”

https://telegra.ph/How-to-remain-standing-while-those-around-you-fall-05-21

⚜️Our Lady is our help par excellence! She never tires of giving and never tires of pardoning. Her pardon is such an immensely precious gift, that even after having greatly pardoned someone, She still has a compassionate smile for the one who offended Her, when he invokes Her and asks for mercy.

Even if he does not invoke Her, She helps him. She sees the miserable condition of this or that soul and pleads to Our Lord Jesus Christ on his behalf. She is the Mother that comes to the aid of the child that does not ask and helps him, so to say, from behind.

Plinio Côrrea de Oliveira – May 24, 1995
Unofficial translation

Live broadcast from the Heralds of the Gospel school "Parent's Day" at Thabor:

https://youtu.be/dZX24oVP1Vs

A concert to honour mothers by the students of the Heralds of the Gospel school in Caieiras, SP.

https://youtu.be/IYxFNat6WO8

♦️Necessity of Jesus’ departure

And in another work, the same Bishop of Hippo states: “He well knew what was fitting for them, because the interior vision with which the Holy Spirit would console them was much better, not in a visible body before human eyes, but introducing His own self into the hearts of believers.” It is within this perspective of Jesus taking leave of His disciples that today’s Liturgy addresses the most beautiful promises made by Him.

Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias
New Insights on the Gospels V, pp. 340-341

♦️Love’s Reward: “And We will Make Our Home with Him”

“... he will keep My word ...”

Obedience is, then, one of the virtues most pleasing to God, and consequently, one of the most necessary. St. Bernard and St. Augustine say that it is indispensable even for the practice of chastity for, whoever does not submit to the orders and desires of a superior, will be unable to repress the concupiscence of the flesh. To be faithful to the Commandments of the Law of God, we need to be pliant of spirit with regard to the will of our superiors.

Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias
New Insights on the Gospels V, pp. 341-342

​​✨As the years went by, Dona Lucilia’s solitude increased. Gradually the people of her time were engulfed by the maelstrom of life. As she always remained true to self, an unavoidable gulf was established in relation to the newer generations: their eyes were turned towards modernity; hers were fixed on eternity.

Dona Lucilia, p. 418

♦️“... and My Father will love him...”

The more a soul ascends along the paths of virtue, the more it longs to do good to others.

Coming directly after Jesus, in the order of beings, and together with Him in the divine and eternal level of creation, is the Virgin Mary at the highest degree of holiness, as the object of this efficacious love of God. She was chosen as the Mother of the Incarnate Word, being penetrated with the most excellent love for God in the order of mere creatures and for being the most loved by the Holy Trinity.

Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias
New Insights on the Gospels V, pp. 342-344