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Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 211, May 2025

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Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 211, May 2025

Theme of the Month

The Priesthood, Before and After Christ

One of the most contrasting scenes in the Bible became the backdrop for the institution of the priesthood. Moses had spent forty days with God on Sinai and received the tablets of the Law; the Hebrew people, for their part, prevaricated by prostrating before a golden calf. Coming down from …
João Pedro Serafim Freitas Pereira - 30, April 2025

St. Thomas Explains

Does the Mass of a Bad Priest Have Any Value?

We could translate the title above into a simpler formulation: does a good cannon work in the hands of a bad soldier? Or: what good is a cannon if used by an enemy? We know that a good cannon loses nothing of its quality, no matter how inept the gunner …
Editorial team - 30, April 2025

History – Life’s Teacher

Fr. Walter Joseph Ciszek, SJ - Complete Surrender to the Divine Will

We know that the journey of human life is not made up solely or even mostly of joys and pleasures, but that it is frequently punctuated by unspeakable suffering and disastrous situations that clash with our aspirations… How to conform oneself to God’s will in circumstances like these? The story …
Guilherme Thiago Motta - 30, April 2025

What Does the Catechism Say?

Are We All Priests?

§§ 1591-1592 The whole Church is a priestly people. Through Baptism all the faithful share in the priesthood of Christ. This participation is called the “common priesthood of the faithful.” […] The ministerial priesthood differs in essence from the common priesthood of the faithful because it confers a sacred power …
Editorial team - 30, April 2025

Theme of the Month

Priesthood – St. John Marie Vianney, Model of Priests - “After God, the priest is everything!”

Little John Marie Vianney, just four years old, was still playing when, on the other side of the world, a prophecy was published about… St. John Marie Vianney. In that year of 1790, Fr. Manuel Sousa Pereira, OFM, published in the city of Quito, Ecuador, a revelation that the Mother …
Vinícius Lima - 30, April 2025

Catholic Spirituality

Like the Palm Tree, They Will Flourish!
Like a fortress, the palm tree stands tall, defying the skies, winds and storms. Nothing seems capable of holding it back in its ascension, and no natural factor can easily bring it down to the ground. A symbol of triumph, of bounteousness, of the upright, constant, humble, strong and vigilant …
Sr. Maria Cecília Veas - 30, April 2025

Did You Know…

Did You Know…
When a loved one passes away, we often hear the comment: “At least they will not suffer any more…” However, this expression denotes an incomplete view of supernatural realities. Is it not true that the deceased may be suffering incomparably greater pains in Purgatory, and in need of our help? …
Editorial team - 30, April 2025

Tendencies and Mentalities

Manipulated Morality?
In the days of yesteryear, we became accustomed to the fact that computers were gradually managing to imitate everything we possessed: they copied our logic, outdid us in memory, multiplied their processing capacity in place of our intelligence; they acquired cameras in place of eyes, microphones in place of ears, …
Fr. Louis Marie Joseph Anicet Goyard, EP - 30, April 2025

Back Cover

Efficacious Channel of the Holy Spirit
In the episode of the Visitation, we can contemplate the Blessed Virgin from an angle which, although of capital importance for understanding the mission of our Heavenly Queen, is nevertheless little known and loved: as Mystical Spouse of the Holy Spirit. Under this invocation, Our Lady will shine in future …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 30, April 2025

A Prophet for Our Times

Between Human Vulnerability and Divine Strength
When I was still small, I perceived, perhaps through discernment of spirits, something sublime and beautiful, but did not know how to put it into words. It was not until later, when my mind had progressed, that this explanation took shape. I noticed a distinction between the Church and her …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 30, April 2025

Biblical Teachings

Judas Maccabeus’ Purification of the Altar - For the Sake of the Altar
In his first epistle, St. John says that “There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood” (5:8). And each of them corresponds to one of the three ways of entering Heaven: by the Baptism of desire, the fruit of the Holy Spirit; by the Baptism of blood, …
Fr. Alex de Brito, EP - 30, April 2025

Lives of the Saints

St. John Houghton - For the Holy Church, I Am Ready to Suffer
“Look, Margaret!” From a barred window in the Tower of London, Sir Thomas More called to his daughter to witness the scene: five priests – John Haile, a secular clergyman, Richard Reynolds, a Brigittine monk and renowned theologian, and three Carthusian priors, John Houghton, Robert Lawrence and Augustine Webster, clad …
Sr. Elizabeth Veronica MacDonald - 30, April 2025

Dona Lucilia

Final Acts of Piety
To break the monotony of each day following the same routine as the last, Dr. Plinio took his mother from time to time for a walk along Alagoas Street,1 where they lived. He never took her so far as Buenos Aires Square, thinking it unwise to cross the extremely busy …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 30, April 2025

Heralds Worldwide

Heralds Worldwide
During the Carnival holiday, Cooperators of the Heralds of the Gospel and their families participated in several retreats provided by the institution in preparation for Easter. Eucharistic celebrations, lectures, periods of meditation and much pleasant fraternal conviviality marked these days. The activities took place in Tocancipá, Colombia, in Buenos Aires …
Editorial team - 30, April 2025

Our Readers Ask

Our Readers Ask
Willian Silva Torres – Coronel Fabriciano (Brazil) According to a beautiful assertion of the Pontifical Magisterium, the Church values the Latin language, “in which wisdom itself is cloaked, as it were, in a vesture of gold”; it offers a “concise, varied and harmonious style, full of majesty and dignity” which …
Fr. Ricardo José Basso, EP - 30, April 2025

Editorial

Priest: Everything and Nothing
In recent years, there has been much talk of a “priestly crisis”. However, contrary to appearances, it did not start now; it was in fact ignited by an Apostle: Judas Iscariot. After him, a rash of traitors – Arius, Nestorius, Huss, among a numerous horde of others – tried to …
Editorial team - 30, April 2025

The Sunday Liturgy

Sheep or Dust Shaken from the Feet?
Although we are surrounded by an increasingly chaotic world, Providence never ceases to show its light to men and to nations, as is clear from this Sunday’s first reading (Acts 13:14, 43-52). St. Paul and St. Barnabas are sent to preach to distant peoples the greatest event in history: the …
Fr. Hernán Luis Cosp, EP - 30, April 2025

Emptied of Themselves, Full of God
The Church, from its inception, learned from the lips of the Divine Master to formulate the supplication contained in the Our Father: “Thy Kingdom come” (Mt 6:10). St. John, in the passage from the Book of Revelation that the Liturgy presents this Sunday, glimpses the fullness of this Kingdom when …
Fr. Marcelo Javier Pérez, EP - 30, April 2025

How to Attain Happiness?
If we had to define God in just one word, it would surely be Love. “God is love” (1 Jn 4:8), the Apostle St. John teaches us. Love is part of the divine essence, love drives the interrelationship between the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity, love led the Creator …
Fr. Leandro Cesar Ribeiro, EP - 30, April 2025

Treasures of Msgr. João

Total Self-Giving to the Holy Church
It is often said in theology that grace does not destroy nature, but perfects it.1 There is, in fact, a curious phenomenon involving the natural and supernatural fields: ordinarily, the human being is created by God with a series of aptitudes that constitute a state of previous preparation for receiving …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 30, April 2025

Inside Front Cover

Let Us Never Doubt His Love
There are two subjects of meditation which will serve us well if we do not wish to offend Our Lord: to love His goodness and to trust in His mercy. Great is the blindness of the soul that does not love so good a Lord, and great is the weakness …
St. John of Avila - 30, April 2025

The Voice of the Popes

A Mediator Between God and Man
The human race has always felt the need of a priesthood: of men, that is, who have the official charge to be mediators between God and humanity, men who should consecrate themselves entirely to this mediation, as to the very purpose of their lives […] The priest, according to the …
Pontifical Magisterium  - 30, April 2025

The Sunday Liturgy

Peter, the True Shepherd
As we meditate on the third apparition of the Resurrected One narrated in this Sunday’s Gospel (Jn 21:1-19), the figure of St. Peter stands out for his attitudes towards Our Lord. With his characteristic fiery temperament, Simon is the first to throw himself into the water to meet the Divine …
Fr. Ignacio Montojo, EP - 30, April 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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