Editorial team - Heralds Magazine

Editorial team - Heralds Magazine

Why One?

Simply contemplating the work of creation provides man with a prodigious kaleidoscope of divine perfections. As an example, let us consider the migratory movement of Canada geese. Who has not marvelled at the wisdom manifested in them? They cross thousands of kilometres flying always together, in an impeccable “V” formation, …

Editorial team - 01, February 2026

Hail Mary, Full of Grace

St. Thomas Aquinas’s childhood was not without a singular episode of “disobedience”… Once, as a little child, he happened to come across a small scroll. Refusing stubbornly to let go of it, he wept bitterly as attempts were made to take it from him by force. His poor nanny even …

Editorial team - 01, May 2026

Alliance Between Counsel and Mercy

St. Thomas Aquinas establishes an interesting relationship between the gift of counsel and the fifth beatitude: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy” (Mt 5:7). To better understand this connection, it is necessary, first of all, to recall the role of the fruits of the Holy Spirit and …

Editorial team - 01, April 2026

How to Honour the Holy Eucharist?

This paragraph from the Catechism urges us to prepare ourselves adequately for receiving the Holy Eucharist, highlighting three important aspects. Firstly, as Pius XII recalls in the Apostolic Constitution Christus Dominus, it was customary since the fourth century to distribute Holy Communion to the faithful while fasting. The Councils of …

Editorial team - 31, May 2026

Do We Need to Ask for Graces?

Paragraph 2010 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church highlights three relevant theological aspects regarding grace. In the first place, it emphasizes the importance of ardently seeking it because, being a gift from God, it frees us from sin and strengthens us in the practice of virtues, so that we …

Editorial team - 01, March 2026

…why the Pope chooses a new name?

A man receives a name when he is born into the world by nature, when he is born into grace through Baptism, when he dies to the world through religious vows, and when he dies to himself by virtue of a vocation that confiscates him entirely. Abram was renamed Abraham …

Editorial team - 01, February 2026

Fidelity to the Lay Vocation

The teachings in this paragraph, a true compendium of the lay vocation, correspond to number 31 of the Constitution Lumen Gentium of the Second Vatican Council. In it we read the three main theological topics that underpin this vocation. First, the text recalls that the laity are incorporated into Christ …

Editorial team - 01, April 2026

The Predestination of the Mother of God and Ours

This paragraph of the Catechism, entitled The Predestination of Mary, presents a series of biblical Marian attributes, focusing on the privilege of her Divine Motherhood. Of the four Marian dogmas – Perpetual Virginity, the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption and Divine Motherhood – the latter is the most sublime, as it …

Editorial team - 01, May 2026

Does the Efficacy of Grace Constrain Free Will?

Omnia est gratia – Everything is grace in the supernatural realm. Man, left to his own devices, is incapable of taking a single step towards effective union with God. Without divine assistance, there is no conversion, spiritual progress, or holiness, and it is impossible to merit eternal life.1 Faced with …

Editorial team - 01, March 2026

…why we call the Supreme Pontiff Pope?

Pope: this is the title Catholics use to refer to their father… Yes, father, in the strictest and most etymological sense of the term. Πάππας – papas – was one of the first words babbled by Greek-speaking children. Directed with effusive affection to the father who protected, fed, taught, corrected …

Editorial team - 01, February 2026

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