(Fr Mario Beccar, EP)
"Our Lady is the universe of God. She is a quintessence of the universe, a synthesis of the universe, capable of representing the entire universe in such a way that she would be the Paradise reserved for God" (Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
"She must be the pinnacle of all that has been created. Everything that exists must have a mark of Her. That is why the order of the universe is essentially Marian." (Mons. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias)
"Our Lady was the Mulier Dolorum, the woman, the lady of sorrows and She also had her entire life invaded by pain, by suffering throughout her existence. (Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
"With the piercing of the spear, He no longer suffered, but She suffered, which would be something like a kind of particular excellence, mysterious, no longer indispensable for the Church to be Church, but which gave the Church a fini, a finished, an excellent, proper to the great works of God." (Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
"I soon realized that this Kingdom was the goal toward which my soul was flying. It was very precisely and strictly my desire.... And I understood that there would be mystical aspects, which would make the Kingdom of Mary a paradise, in relation to what the Middle Ages had been. It was not, therefore, a question of returning to the past, but rather heading towards something that would be to the Middle Ages what the Lebanese cedar is to shrubs." (Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
"What is the Secret of Mary? It is that exchange of wills that certain saints had with Our Lady, and it is not the following: the person becomes a puppet without a will, it is not this.
But Our Lady, so to speak, pours Her will into our souls, as a precious liquid might enter a crystal goblet. In such a way that the liquid, as it were, animates the crystal goblet.
Thus, Our Lady gives so many graces to the man who has her mentality entirely and wants everything she wants through free acceptance, [...] like an angel in Heaven." (Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
"I have the impression that there is a very special path of Hers that we walk without realizing, and that She will open up for us. It is a certain perfection, a certain peculiar virtue of Hers, entirely characteristic, unfathomable and almost disconcerting in the love that She had for God, which She will gradually make us know. And that therein lies the clous of the Secret. It is a corollary of Her love for God." (Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
"We must go on proclaiming, exciting, and grounding, accidentally catching some and others, but it is the search for the souls who are out there, especially those who must be called to this with us and who complete the network of strong souls that are the structure of the Kingdom of Mary." It is a system of dissemination and diffusion of the Secret of Mary that we have to carry out there. It is precisely this greatness, and there is out there a kind of number of elect that must be completed. Of course! But this gives you the idea that the souls are waiting for us." (Plinio Correa de Oliveira)
"If our symbols speak so much, our souls would speak even more if they showed themselves. It is evident. Every human soul is worth much more than a material symbol, there is no comparison. And here is the idea that reality awaits us and that we must confidently ask Our Lady and say: 'My Mother, see that reality awaits us, hurry, shorten our steps, or in other words, shorten yours, towards us." (Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
"Now, what is this? It's this. Our Lady says at the end, it's part of the preparatory revelation: 'In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.' She doesn't just say she will win, but she says she will triumph. Triumphing is not just any victory. It is a victory with great glory. And we see this glory through the size of the adversary that She will have eliminated, the impiety, etc. Her crushing all of this with her feet is truly a triumph." (Plínio Corrêa de Oliveira)
"Her triumph cannot fail to be in proportion to the size of the victory, and the size of the victory also indicates the splendor of virtues that She will make known after the devil has been given the possibility of making all this horror that he is revealing transparent." (Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
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TALK 3
MARY'S SECRET
FOR A FAMILY OF SOULS
(Fr Marcos, EP)
1 - INTRODUCTION:
Out of goodness and love for men and angels, Divine Providence uses them to govern the universe, making them share in His power over creation. This divine action is always carried out in a sapiential and hierarchical manner, especially with regard to His great saving works:
Redemption: He chose a people, to whom He revealed His plan; He raised up Prophets and Judges as His instruments to lead these people to the fulfillment of their mission;
Foundation of the Church: elects 12 Apostles and constitutes them as the foundations of this Church;
Formation of the Middle Ages and Christian Civilization: the role of Saint Benedict and his Benedictine Order, particularly Cluny;
Kingdom of Mary: the role of the Apostles of the End Times, a family of souls that is essentially Marian and called to live the spirit of Sacred Slavery.
H-HISTORICAL CONTEXT: the struggle between the Revolution and the Counter-Revolution, as described by Dr. Plínio in the book "Revolution and Counter-Revolution" (R-CR): two mysteries that confront each other like two opposing cones.
A-The "mystery" of the devil:
What is Revolution? A phenomenon that arose in the Christian world with the aim of destroying the Church and Christian Civilization, and establishing the reign of the devil among men, based on the illusion that the disorder of instincts can provide a happy life on Earth;
This Revolution is universal, one, total, dominant, processive
(R-CR, Part I, Chap. III);
The Revolution aims at an exchange of "hearts" or "minds" of men with the devil, in opposition to the invitation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to an exchange of hearts, wills or minds with Him.
The mystery of Mary Most Holy and the era of mercy: the only remedy for the members of our family of souls is this mystery of Mary.
Features:
A living, continuous, constant, deep knowledge of our own misery;
Realization of a true need for Our Lady's mercy towards us: this is the gateway to our devotion to Our Lady;
OUR LADY: the highest personification, the highest representation, the highest holder, in the order of Creation, of this mercy and this goodness. (Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
III - RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DR. PLINIO AND MONS. JOÃO WITH OUR LADY: PARADIGM FOR OUR FAMILY OF SOULS.
The gaze of Our Lady Help of Christians: "What touched me most about Our Lady was not so much Her holiness, but [...] the compassion with which that holiness looked upon those who are not holy. She looked upon those who are not holy, and attended to them with pity, with a desire to help, with a mercy whose magnitude was that of Her other qualities: inexhaustible, most patient, most clement, ready to help at any moment in an unimaginable way, without ever a sigh of weariness, exhaustion, or impatience, but always willing not only to repeat Herself, but to surpass Herself. In such a way that, when such mercy is granted and is poorly reciprocated, a greater mercy comes. And, so to speak, our abysses draw the light to their depths. And the more we flee from Her, the more Her graces extend and shine upon us. [...] A LOOK THAT LEFT ME CALM FOR MY WHOLE LIFE." (Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
Our Lady's embrace of Monsignor João Clá: "Suddenly, he became completely detached from concrete reality, as if he were outside of himself and the environment that surrounded him. He then felt himself physically in the arms of Our Lady, with his forehead resting on Her shoulder and face []. as the Child Jesus appears in the images of the invocation Sedes Sapientiae.
And Mary caressed him with her virginal hands. She said nothing to him, but... to be caressed and held close by the Queen of Heaven and earth... What more could one desire?
"The experience also encompassed the sense of sight, so that the Author saw Our Lady more or less as the aforementioned image of Fatima represents Her. However, the embrace was so bodily sensitive and compelling that he was unable to fix her facial features accurately in his memory. Absorbed in that "heaven," the Author did not take any action; he simply allowed himself to be embraced by his Mother. A flood of consolation took hold of him, as never before in his life, causing him to shed abundant tears." (Mons. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias)
IV-THE SECRET OF MARY: SOME BRUSH STROKES...
"A certain union of thoughts and ways with Mary and, through Her, with Jesus, which we do not now understand how it could be. It is something sublime and mysterious."
As a result of it, "a kind of peace and tranquility would be established among men, giving rise to a new civilization." [...] "A relationship with the Hearts of Jesus and Mary would be inaugurated, marked by a note of intimacy that had not existed before." (Mons. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias)
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THE SECRET OF MARY
THE PATH OF SANCTIFICATION INAUGURATED IN COVA DA IRIA
(Fr Joshua Sequeira, EP)
We must, first of all, consider the symbolic value of the work of Our Lady, who gently transformed these children by the simple fact of appearing to them repeatedly in Fatima.
The Blessed Virgin even said she was upset with one of them. It was Francisco, who didn't see her because of this. Therefore, he can be considered a convert... All three changed extraordinarily as a result of the revelations.
We have here something akin to the Secret of Mary, that is, one of those profound actions of grace in the soul that unfold without the person realizing it. The person feels increasingly free, increasingly free to do good, and the defects that hinder and bind them to evil gradually dissolve. The person grows in love for God, in a desire to dedicate themselves, in opposition to sin, but all of this occurs wonderfully within the soul.
So the soul does not fight the great and methodical battles of the admirable ascension to Heaven, to virtue, to holiness, of those who fight according to the classical system of spiritual life; but Our Lady transforms them from one moment to the next.
If Our Lady's work in Fatima was like this, especially with these two children called to Heaven, Jacinta and Francisco, we can ask ourselves if this does not have a symbolic value and if it does not indicate what Our Lady's action will be on all humanity, when She fulfills Her will. promises made at Fatima. And if it is not lawful to predict the fulfillment of the promises of Fatima carried out in the manner of what occurred with Jacinta and Francisco, most notably.
And therefore, should we not see there a beginning of the Kingdom of Mary, as being the triumph of the Immaculate Heart over two souls who preached the great revelation of Our Lady, who, by their sacrifices and prayers on Earth, and later by their prayers in Heaven, helped and still help enormously the souls to accept the message of Fatima?
That is to say, we must see in this transformation, I believe, at least in a very likely way, a symbol of these profound transformations that will mark the Kingdom of Mary.
It's also interesting to note the effect of Mary's Secret on these children. They changed, all right. But what were the outward manifestations of this transformation? Three things are highlighted here: great seriousness, a spirit of prayer, and a spirit of sacrifice. Above all, a deep conviction in their mission and a desire to live for that mission—from which these three consequences arose.(Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
THE PEAK OF THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION
If all this is true, then the pinnacle of the Counter-Revolution would be the revelation of the Secret of Mary. (...) When the time comes for the revelation of the Secret of Mary and the Kingdom of Mary, our hopes of sanctification, etc., will multiply a millionfold! And by Her mercy we will be lifted up to where we never thought possible. This would be the Secret of Mary! (Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
PRAYER ASKING FOR GRACES FROM
THE SECRET OF MARY
O Most Holy Mary, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, obtain for me from Him the grace necessary to look my soul in the face, making a relentless and true examination of all that is within it. Obtain for me to love what is good that You have placed there and to hate what is evil. So that, with evil expelled from it, good may triumph, and the dawn of the Kingdom of Mary, for which we must live, fight, and die, may begin within me.
And if my weakness and lack of generosity are such that I cannot correspond to your graces, give me even greater graces, those that are part of your secret and of which Saint Louis Grignion says that man, as it were, cannot resist them.
(Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
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