Beginning a Traditional Family is Like Beginning a Religious Order But in the Temporal Sphere
Dear brothers and sisters in Mary, To form a family is to form a religious order in the temporal sphere. The patriarch, its crown, by his...
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The Fruit of the Virgin
Michael Aguilera
Oct 25, 20232 min read
Restoring Aristocracy: The Lower Classes Transfigure Society and Stimulate the Economy
Dear brothers and sisters in Mary, In times past the demand of the workplace forged refined citizens. Not a demand necessarily of...
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Michael Aguilera
Aug 9, 20232 min read
A Beautiful Harmony, the Father's Authority, and the Mother's Piety.
God created two marvelous melodies-- the father's authority and the mother's piety. And both have distinguishing notes, finely tuned by...
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Michael Aguilera
Jul 29, 20231 min read
Understanding Your Spiritual Weight and Coming to Terms with It.
When the patriarch understands that no thought, word, and deed is superfluous, he has come to terms with his own gravity. When he arrives...
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Michael Aguilera
Jul 21, 20233 min read
Faith Without Beautiful Works is Dead... A Culture of Beauty Has Great Faith
The notion of beauty in all of our works from our gaze to the building of a cathedral is not merely extrinsic to faith but intrinsic.
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Michael Aguilera
Jul 8, 20235 min read
If the Upper Classes Ensure a Virtuous Society, What is Done When They Grow Lax?
Pope Pius XII in his allocutions to the Roman Patriciate and Nobility shares a well-known fact. "Society progresses and raises itself up...
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Michael Aguilera
Jul 6, 20231 min read
"Let neither prosperity elate nor adversity perturb." ~ St. Gregory the Great
Rulers, patriarchs, prophets, and warriors ought to listen to this Mighty Doctor. "Him let neither prosperity elate nor adversity...
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Michael Aguilera
Jul 5, 20231 min read
The Evidence of Beauty in the Soul — Decorum
We say a person has a beautiful soul by their visible beauty or as medieval philosopher William of Auvergne would say "pulchritudo or...
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Michael Aguilera
Jun 29, 20234 min read
Recovering from a Society of foolishness
The Society of Foolishness When we reflect on behavior in media and society we notice they mirror in many respects. For example, we...
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Michael Aguilera
Jun 28, 20231 min read
Seeing and Becoming the Symbol
"The symbol," writes Dr. Plinio Corrêa de Oliviera, "makes visible what is invisible." Consider courage and a lion appears unveiling its...
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Michael Aguilera
May 28, 20232 min read
Virtuous Comportment, The Reflection of an Enlightened Mind
Virtuous comportment, the reflection of an enlightened mind. Those ornaments of the mind—maxims, doctrine, wise sayings, and so on— if...
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Michael Aguilera
May 3, 20231 min read
Adorn Creation with your Divine Artificer, the Holy Ghost
The Divine Artificer delights in adorning his creation. When men inquire into the nature of this adorning they realize it has been...
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Michael Aguilera
May 3, 20233 min read
How Philosophy Places Food on the Table and the Table under the Food.
Why is there an aversion to philosophical discussion? It is most practical. Well here lies the problem most don't find it to be so. But...
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