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Did You Know…

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Thanks to a long-standing tradition, ancient manuscripts and recent archaeological studies, we now have more information about the house of Nazareth – the place where the Blessed Virgin lived since …
28, February 2025

Tendencies and Mentalities


What Does Art Announce to Us?

Santiago Vieto Rodríguez
If the highest vocation of art is to unite the heavenly to the earthly, the famous altarpiece of the Annunciation by Blessed Fra Angelico, preserved in the Prado Museum in …
28, February 2025

Heralds Worldwide


Heralds Worldwide

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[gallery td_gallery_title_input="Caieiras" td_select_gallery_slide="slide" columns="2" link="file" ids="37918,37919,37920,37921,37922,37923"] Caieiras (Brazil) – On January 28, the liturgical memorial of the Angelic Doctor, Most Rev. Benedito Beni dos Santos, Emeritus Bishop of Lorena, delivered …
28, February 2025

The Sunday Liturgy


How Do We Find the Light in a World of Darkness?

Fr. Cyril Avinash, EP
The technological advances of the last few decades have revealed to man the existence of formerly unsuspected realities. Today we know about certain light wavelengths, such as ultraviolet and infrared …
28, February 2025

Catholic Spirituality


First Conquer; Then Fight!

Fr. Carlos Javier Werner Benjumea, EP
Man’s life on earth, from the moment our eyes open to this world until they close after the last combat, has always been and will always be, whether we like …
28, February 2025

The Sunday Liturgy


“Unless you repent you will likewise perish”

Fr. César Javier Díez Juárez, EP
It was a general belief among the Hebrew people that any misfortune befalling someone was due either to their own sins or those of their parents. It was for this …
28, February 2025

How to Rid Ourselves of Impenitence and Pride

Fr. Eduardo Miguel Caballero Baza, EP
The prodigal son sinned gravely against God and against his father. Not even the sincere movement of his conversion is free from self-interest: “How many of my father’s hired servants …
28, February 2025

The Power of Example


How Different God’s Judgements Are!

Editorial team
Although devotion to the Carmelite Saint of Lisieux, Therese of the Child Jesus, is widespread, few recognize and admire in her a virtue that is much forgotten in our day: …
28, February 2025

Treasures of Msgr. João


The Great Law of Mercy

Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP
When we have the opportunity to pore over the history of antiquity, before the coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ, we get the impression that a deep night then reigned …
28, February 2025

Theme of the Month


The Sacrament of Confession - Did Jesus Christ Institute Confession?

Nelson José Camilo López
In proclaiming that man’s life on earth is a struggle (cf. Jb 7:1), Job is only recalling the fierce clash that takes place within each person, in the choice between …
28, February 2025

Why and How to Confess?

Sr. Maria Cecília Veas
Judas Iscariot, seeing that Jesus had been condemned to death, went to the Temple to dispose of the unlawful money for which he had sold his Master. Arriving there, shrouded …
28, February 2025

A Prophet for Our Times


The Story of the Repentant Soul

Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
The Miserere belongs to the group of seven psalms called penitential. What is a penitential psalm? Obviously, it is a hymn to God in which the author expresses his repentance. …
28, February 2025

What Does the Catechism Say?


I only have “little sins”… do I really need to go to Confession?

Editorial team
§ 1458 Without being strictly necessary, confession of everyday faults (venial sins) is nevertheless strongly recommended by the Church. Indeed the regular confession of our venial sins helps us form …
28, February 2025

History – Life’s Teacher


The Flight of Dom John VI - An Exodus Between Life and Death

Fernando Joaquim Costa
The sun showed itself without veils that day: it seemed to want to contemplate itself in the calm waters of the river, while drying the tears of that desolate crowd. …
28, February 2025

St. Thomas Explains


What Is the Book of Life?

Editorial team
“He who conquers shall be clad thus in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the Book of Life; I will confess his name before my …
28, February 2025

Lives of the Saints


St. Stephen Harding - The Story of a Rebel Monk

Sr. Adriana María Sánchez
The story of a rebellious monk, and a saint? In fact, not just one, but three. These monks led an escape from the monastery, bringing many with them. Where did …
28, February 2025

Dona Lucilia


A Soul of Harmonious Contrasts

Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP
Due to her magnanimity of soul, Dona Lucilia easily adapted to the will of others. Nothing disturbed her well-ordered inner equanimity. It was reminiscent of certain characteristically Brazilian rivers of …
28, February 2025

Back Cover


As at the Wedding of Cana

Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Our Lady, simply by placing her virginal hand on a soul full of defects and vices, burdened with sins, can transform it into a sanctuary. Just as through her appeal …
28, February 2025

Inside Front Cover


Limitless Faith in His Love

Sr. Benigna Consolata Ferrero, VHM
Provided I find good will in a soul, I am never weary of looking upon its miseries. My love is fed by consuming miseries; the soul that brings me the …
28, February 2025

Our Readers Ask


Our Readers Ask

Fr. Ricardo José Basso, EP
Stefânia Machado – São Paulo The Church teaches us that “divine law binds all the Christian faithful to do penance each in his or her own way.” Thus, “penitential days …
28, February 2025

Editorial


Divine Pardon and the Mother of the Embrace

Editorial team
St. Thomas Aquinas (cf. Summa Theologiæ. II-II, q.30, a.4) questions whether mercy is the greatest of all virtues. In fact, by repeating Hosea’s exhortation – “I desire mercy, and not …
28, February 2025

The Voice of the Popes


The Profound Cause of All Evil

Pontifical Magisterium 
To know Jesus crucified is to know God’s horror of sin, whose guilt could only be washed away in the Precious Blood of the Only-begotten Son of God made Man. …
28, February 2025

The Sunday Liturgy


There Are No Half-Truths in the Heart of a Good Man

Fr. Dartagnan Alves de Oliveira Souza, EP
In a world full of moral and doctrinal relativism, the truth is disappearing from the human horizon, and men sometimes confuse the notion of good and evil because they have …
28, February 2025

Lent: A Time of Renewal through Struggle

Fr. Carlos Adriano Santos, EP
The Lenten season is a time when the Church, very maternally, calls all her members to spiritual renewal. And the first step that we should take is to review the …
28, February 2025
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