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  • If the father of the virgin is not willing to give her, he shall pay money according to manner of a dowry, which virgins are accustomed to receive. (Exodus 22, 17)

  • And taking up his parable, he said: “Balak, king of the Moabites, has led me from Aram, from the mountains of the east. ‘Come forth,’ he said, ‘and curse Jacob. Hurry and condemn Israel.’ (Numbers 23, 7)

  • But, taking up his parable, he said: “Stand, Balak, and pay attention. Listen, you son of Zippor. (Numbers 23, 18)

  • taking up his parable, he said: “Balaam, the son of Beor, the man whose eye has been obstructed, (Numbers 24, 3)

  • Therefore, taking up his parable, he again spoke: “Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eye has been obstructed, (Numbers 24, 15)

  • And when he saw Amalek, taking up his parable, he said: “Amalek, first among the Gentiles, whose very end shall be perdition.” (Numbers 24, 20)

  • Likewise, he saw the Kainites, and taking up his parable, he said: “Robust, indeed, is your habitation. But though you will set your nest in a rock, (Numbers 24, 21)

  • And taking up his parable once more he said: “Alas! Who will be able to survive, when God will do these things? (Numbers 24, 23)

  • But the young girls, and all female virgins, reserve for yourselves. (Numbers 31, 18)

  • And this shall be what you ought to do: “Everyone of the male gender, as well as all the women who have known men, shall be put to death. But the virgins you shall reserve.” (Judges 21, 11)

  • And four hundred virgins, who had not known the bed of a man, were found from Jabesh-Gilead. And they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, in the land of Canaan. (Judges 21, 12)

  • then I will take away Israel from the face of the land, which I have given to them. And the temple, which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out from my sight. And Israel will be a proverb and a parable among all the peoples. (1 Kings 9, 7)


“Pobres e desafortunadas as almas que se envolvem no turbilhão de preocupações deste mundo. Quanto mais amam o mundo, mais suas paixões crescem, mais queimam de desejos, mais se tornam incapazes de atingir seus objetivos. E vêm, então, as inquietações, as impaciências e terríveis sofrimentos profundos, pois seus corações não palpitam com a caridade e o amor. Rezemos por essas almas desafortunadas e miseráveis, para que Jesus, em Sua infinita misericórdia, possa perdoá-las e conduzi-las a Ele.” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina