The Brazilian Indians who carried Father José de Anchieta’s chests, tired of everything, sighed: “We are heartless!” I was touched by this expression when reading the [...]
My friend Pedro María Zabilde went to the barber (and I ask permission to tell in my own way what happened to him and comes in his book Happiness is not for fools). The barber, talkative as a [...]
Each person is a word from God that is never repeated. Or a melody that no one else can sing. They say that no two auroras or snowflakes are the same and that after creating a human being, God [...]
There are words you hear once, but they stay ringing in your heart for life. Sitting on a stool in the dark and poor kitchen, the old lady, with tears in her eyes, had this to say: [...]
“The difficult thing is to take off”, confessed a young man, eager to consecrate himself completely to God. He belonged to a group of young people who had gathered to give wings to their [...]
It was after the news, the prime time on TV, and a tart was throwing this enormity in her boyfriend’s face, as if it were the most natural thing in the world: “It’s none of your [...]
An elderly lady went into a self-service restaurant, ordered a bowl full of broth, paid, and sat down at one of the available tables. She then realised that she had forgotten her bread. She went [...]
A young woman in her twenties – a “girl in bloom”, as Vinicius de Morais would say – eager to take life seriously and, who knows, to consecrate herself to God, confessed [...]
I am more and more convinced that in the world and in the Church today, many people – and I speak for myself – are living in heresy. That’s right: vital heresy. And if anyone [...]
One of the evils of politics today is the search for visibility, the preoccupation with doing mediatic things, gestures and phrases that pass in the media. This is what Manuela Ferreira Leite [...]
