ParadoxParadoxis the reverse of what, properly perceived, would be synthesis. But the properview always eludes us. Each of us contributes by his existence to the weavingof a wonderful tapestry but it cannot yet be comprised entirely within ourrange of vision. In the field of facts as of spirit, synthesis can only besought. Quandiu vivimus, necesse habemussempre quaerere. Paradox is the search or wait for synthesis. It is theprovisional expression of a view which remains incomplete but whose orientationis ever towards fullness. Paradoxhas more charm than dialectics; It is also mare realist and mare modest, lesstense and less hurried; its function is to remind the dialectician when eachnew stage is reached in the argument, that however necessary this forwardmovement is no real progress has beenmade. As the scholars of old say, in a rather different sense, of eternal lifeitself, we are ever going from beginnings to beginnings Forparadox exists everywhere in reality, before existing in thought. It eeverywhere in permanence. It is for ever reborn. The universe itself, ouruniverse in growth, is paradoxical. The synthesis of the world has not beenmade. As each truth become better known, it opens up a fresh area for paradox.Thought which failed to leave it its place then, which in other words did notrecognize this universal place that it has, would be paradoxical in the badsense. Paradox, in the best sense, is objectivity. Thehigher life rises, the richer, the more interior it become, the mare groundparadox gains. Already sovereign in life that is human only, its realm ofelection is the life of the spirit. Mystical life its triumph. Paradox:the word specifies, above all, then, things themselves, not the way of sayingthem. If it happens as well to bear some subsidiary reflex meaning, perhapsthat is indicative of the anxiety to avoid a certain doctrinal heaviness whenserious things are being dealt with. O cristao catolico por toda parte demonstra sua devocao a Maria Santissima. Nas variadas expressoes que ela e acolhida nasce uma relacao proxima e afetiva. Nela vemos a realizacao das promessas de Deus para conosco.Santa Maria e a estrela da aurora que anuncia a chegada do astro mais luminoso: Jesus Cristo. E todas as vezes que cada fiel assume sua vocacao e missao, trazemos, geramos o Salvador no mundo, lancamos sementes de esperanca e amor.Nao somos a Imaculada Conceicao, mas temos a graca Imaculada em nos. Ao contrario de Maria, caminhamos tateando devido nossos pecados. Porem, Maria sempre Virgem, sabe das nossas limitacoes, pois tambem conheceu o sofrimento humano como tambem a alegria que podemos ter em Deus.Somos seres que caminha e a Imaculada Conceicao e nossa intercessora, nao somente no sentido la no ceu, mas, na medida em que caminhamos para Deus, a descobrimos em nosso viver e vislumbramos a Salvacao. Oppositionsin thought express the contradiction which is the very stuff of creation, whichpermits the movement of history, and which it is the end of this movement tosurmount without ever quite achieving the endeavor. O movimento era grande. Certo alvoroco. Pessoasansiosas para organizar bem a festa. A padroeira era Santa Luzia. Sempre emtais momentos ha um corre-corre.