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Orações de Chico Xavier

by Carlos A. Baccelli

Brazilian medium Carlos A. Baccelli publishes a collection of thoughts by Francisco Cândido Xavier (Chico Xavier), which Baccelli himself heard the famous medium saying, in the context of personal encounters. The sayings Baccelli chose for this collection are almost exclusively doctrinal, yet each Chico's saying could be recognized by the adepts of virtually every religion on Earth. Some of them are prayers to Jesus Christ or to God; some are exhortations to the practice of the Christian virtues: charity, love, humility, patience, forgiveness. Others include meditations on life, recommendations on the necessity of hard work doing the good for everyone, etc. For every Spiritism adept, this is a necessary book. (Spiritism is a branch of Spiritualism founded by French educator Allan Kardec, in the 19th century. Brazil is the country with most of the adherents.)