Dear friends and benefactors, It is with great joy that we invite everyone to the cassock-taking ceremony of the first-year seminarians of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary: Mr. Álvaro Boeing Stropp, Mr. Yuri Milioli, and Mr. Mateus Vasconcellos. His Excellency Dom Tomás de Aquino will celebrate the Pontifical Mass in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary this Saturday at 9:30 am at the Monastery of the Holy Cross, during which he will perform the laying on of hands. We a

Just as God gave to Adam, in the person of Eve, a helper similar to himself, so too God gave to the new Adam (Jesus Christ), Mary, the new Eve, as a helper similar to Him. The Most Holy Virgin Mary is therefore the helper similar to Our Lord: adjutorium simile sibi  (Gen. 2:18), who shares in the work of Redemption as taught by the Magisterium of the Church.   The Church has gathered the arguments of the Fathers and Doctors, and has already spoken on this prerogative on more