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Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 209, March 2025

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Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 209, March 2025

Did You Know…

Did You Know…

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 childhood and received the announcement from the Archangel St. Gabriel – which was miraculously transported by Angels during the Muslim …
Editorial team - 28, February 2025

Tendencies and Mentalities

What Does Art Announce to Us?

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 Madrid, is certainly one of the most successful endeavours to fulfil this calling. Usually seen in art history as a …
Santiago Rodríguez - 28, February 2025

Heralds Worldwide

Heralds Worldwide

[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 the inaugural lecture for the opening of the academic year of the St. Thomas Aquinas Theological Institute (ITTA) and the …
Editorial team - 28, February 2025

The Sunday Liturgy

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

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 rays, which are hidden from the human eye but can have an intense and sometimes even harmful effect on our …
Fr. Cyril Avinash, EP - 28, February 2025

Catholic Spirituality

First Conquer; Then Fight!

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 it or not, a constant struggle. And the reason for this struggle is the one hostility established by God: “I …
Fr. Carlos Javier Werner, EP - 28, February 2025

The Sunday Liturgy

“Unless you repent you will likewise perish”
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 reason that, coming upon a blind man, the disciples once asked Jesus whether this deficiency was his own fault or …
Fr. César Javier Díez Juárez, EP - 28, February 2025

How to Rid Ourselves of Impenitence and Pride
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 have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger” (Lk 15:17). Nevertheless, he accepts with simplicity the …
Fr. Eduardo Caballero, EP - 28, February 2025

The Power of Example

How Different God’s Judgements Are!
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: rectitude! Among the various supernatural qualities that adorned her soul, it can be said that rectitude served as a foundation …
Editorial team - 28, February 2025

Treasures of Msgr. João

The Great Law of Mercy
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 over the world, with a dreadful density of darkness, devoid of all goodness and harmony in relationships, and all understanding …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 28, February 2025

Theme of the Month

The Sacrament of Confession - Did Jesus Christ Institute Confession?
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 good and evil. Tainted by sin, human nature is weakened to such an extent that it cannot practise virtue steadily …
Nelson José Camilo López - 28, February 2025

Why and How to Confess?
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 in darkness and filled with despair, he said to the chief priests: “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.” And …
Sr. Maria Cecília Veas - 28, February 2025

A Prophet for Our Times

The Story of the Repentant Soul
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. And repentance presupposes that he has sinned, repented and, once this feeling of repentance triumphed within him, he reflected on …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 28, February 2025

What Does the Catechism Say?

I only have “little sins”… do I really need to go to Confession?
§ 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 our conscience, fight against evil tendencies, let ourselves be healed by Christ and progress in the life of the Spirit. …
Editorial team - 28, February 2025

History – Life’s Teacher

The Flight of Dom John VI - An Exodus Between Life and Death
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. In the current, highlighted by the reflections of the king star, dozens of boats could be seen moving away. They …
Fernando Joaquim Costa - 28, February 2025

St. Thomas Explains

What Is the Book of Life?
“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 Father and before His Angels” (Rv 3:5). Reading this passage from Apocalypse, we almost inevitably think: “Whatever that book is, …
Editorial team - 28, February 2025

Lives of the Saints

St. Stephen Harding - The Story of a Rebel Monk
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 they go? To take refuge in a swamp and start all over again… “What madness!” you might think. Yes, dear …
Sr. Adriana María Sánchez - 28, February 2025

Dona Lucilia

A Soul of Harmonious Contrasts
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 the Amazon Basin. Tranquil in their banks, they serenely surround and cover the obstacles that arise along their course. Those …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 28, February 2025

Back Cover

As at the Wedding of Cana
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 at Cana, Our Lord's command changed the water into wine, so too the Blessed Virgin can, at any moment, obtain …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 28, February 2025

Inside Front Cover

Limitless Faith in His Love
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 most, if the heart is contrite and humble, is the one that pleases Me most, because she gives Me an …
Sr. Benigna Consolata Ferrero, VHM - 28, February 2025

Our Readers Ask

Our Readers Ask
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 are prescribed on which the Christian faithful devote themselves in a special way to prayer, perform works of piety and …
Fr. Ricardo José Basso, EP - 28, February 2025

Editorial

Divine Pardon and the Mother of the Embrace
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 sacrifice” (Hos 6:6; Mt 12:7) – Jesus would seem to indicate this. However, following St. Paul (cf. Col 3:14), the …
Editorial team - 28, February 2025

The Voice of the Popes

The Profound Cause of All Evil
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. Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is the fact that people have begun to lose the notion of …
Pontifical Magisterium  - 28, February 2025

The Sunday Liturgy

There Are No Half-Truths in the Heart of a Good Man
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 adopted blind guides who generally lead them to fall into an abyss (cf. Lk 6:39). Dr. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira …
Fr. Dartagnan Alves de Oliveira Souza, EP - 28, February 2025

Lent: A Time of Renewal through Struggle
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 way we fight temptation. To wage this battle well, Our Lord offers us a perfect example in the Gospel of …
Fr. Carlos Adriano Santos, EP - 28, February 2025

Sections

Back Cover

The Saints of Each Day

St. Thomas Explains

Special

Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

Our Readers Ask

Dona Lucilia

Catholic truths

Catholic Spirituality

Heralds Worldwide

Splendours of Christian Civilization

Nova et Vetera

Mary, God’s Paradise

A Prophet for Our Times

The Voice of the Popes

Diverse

Gospel Commentary

Testimonials

Arautos no Mundo-MONT

The Sunday Liturgy

Dona Lucilia-MONT

Biblical Teachings

Tendencies and Mentalities

Church and World Events

Issues

History – Life’s Teacher

Lives of the Saints

Inside Front Cover

Editorial

Story for Children

Concluding Pages

Did You Know…

The Power of Example

Theme of the Month

Treasures of Msgr. João

What Does the Catechism Say?
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