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Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 212, June 2025

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Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 212, June 2025

Tendencies and Mentalities

Two Ways of Rising

A Latin adage says that “mater artium necessitas”, necessity is the mother of the arts. This principle, applicable to practically every field of human endeavour, is perhaps nowhere more clearly expressed than in architecture. Buildings, which arose for the practical purpose of shelter and protection, have almost always also taken …
Santiago Rodríguez - 31, May 2025

Back Cover

Motherly presence

While still in the first days of my pontificate, I felt the duty and a deep desire to come to Genazzano, to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel, who throughout my life has accompanied me with her maternal presence, with her wisdom and with the example of her …
Pope Leo XIV - 31, May 2025

The Power of Example

The Clover that Converted a Nation

The Old Testament heard the syllables of this divine secret without however hearkening to it; such is its sublimity that no prophet was worthy of pronouncing it, and only the Word of God Himself could reveal it: the Blessed Trinity. Unveiled in some of its enigmas, this divine reality has …
Editorial team - 31, May 2025

A Prophet for Our Times

Binding Together the Pages of History

A person studying history in a particular book and considering antiquity – the Egyptians, the Chaldean peoples and other ancient civilizations – comes across crumbling empires and situations that are reborn. When the last page is reached, there is something that always happens at the end of the reading of …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, May 2025

History – Life’s Teacher

1,700 Years Since the Council of Nicaea - Five Lessons for Today

If history is life’s teacher, we can judge an institution that has existed for two millennia to be privileged! Nothing, except the ever-new action of Providence, is new for the Catholic Church. In the face of the unprecedented storms of the 21st century, she can proudly say: “I have seen …
Gabriel Marques dos Santos - 31, May 2025

St. Thomas Explains

Called to Judge with Christ
“Judge not, that you be not judged” (Mt 7:1). No one denies this maxim taught by the Divine Master. However, the same Lord promised those who followed Him that they would sit on thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel (cf. Mt 19:28). Is there a contradiction in this? …
Editorial team - 31, May 2025

Treasures of Msgr. João

Guides along God’s Path
In every well-organized religious house there is a little-noticed but indispensable figure: the bursar. What does his role consist of? Supplying the community with everything it needs for its subsistence: provisions, general supplies and food. He is the “man of providence”, whose concern it is to manage the treasury in …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 31, May 2025

Theme of the Month

Providential callings – Charlemagne - Sword and Shield of Christendom
It is the year of grace 800. Before the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Basilica, the venerable and august pontiff, St. Leo III, takes a golden crown, the imperial diadem, and places it on the head of the king of the Franks, who will henceforth be emperor. At this moment, …
João Paulo Bueno - 31, May 2025

Richard the Lionheart - The Importance of a Great Heart
The days are going by slowly in the far East, while the difficulties only increase. The spirit of the combatants begins to fade… Everywhere are seen enemy warriors with their bows and scimitars. The city of Jaffa is defended by just 3,000 Christian warriors, while Saladin attacks it with all …
Nicolle Ouverney Spitz - 31, May 2025

Isabella I of Castile - A Truly Catholic Queen
The year is 1462. In little Madrigal, a village on the edge of the Kingdom of Castile, an eleven-year-old girl lives a childhood already marked by the sign of suffering. Little Isabella is fatherless and lives with her mother, a lady tormented by mental disorders. Perhaps these early sufferings are …
Íñigo María de Oyarzábal Gutiérrez-Barquín - 31, May 2025

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord - The Man With Six Heads
Whether as a hero or a villain, you could say that Talleyrand is a fairytale character… Of princely extraction, born in an “enchanted land”, which was the old France of the Ancien Régime, the kingdom of good taste, etiquette and douceur de vivre,1 Charles-Maurice finds in his story a surprising …
Raphaël Six - 31, May 2025

Lives of the Saints

St. Barnabas, Apostle - Faithful Witness of Christ Crucified
Today, the Catholic Church is in its twentieth century of history. How many generations have passed since the sublime moment when the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven were given to St. Peter; when the saving fountain of the Church blossomed from the open side of the Crucified One; and …
João Luís Ribeiro - 31, May 2025

Did You Know…

Did You Know…
In the Holy Scriptures we find many passages in which certain providential men turn to God in prayer with their arms open. During the Israelites’ battle against Amalek, for example, Moses was on the top of the mountain interceding for the people with his arms raised to Heaven. As long …
Editorial team - 31, May 2025

Dona Lucilia

A Solicitous and Generous Mother
There are trials that hit us like “a bolt of lightning out of a clear blue sky” – a well-known expression that attests to how setbacks can visit our lives without any prior warning. Furthermore, few people nowadays think about this possibility, despite its being very likely, almost inevitable… Dona …
Elizabete Fátima Astorino - 31, May 2025

Heralds Worldwide

Heralds Worldwide
T he Easter Triduum is the culmination of the entire liturgical cycle, during which beautiful ceremonies take place, bringing many graces. This year, celebrations prepared by the Heralds of the Gospel were carried out in the Brazilian cities of Caieiras and Cotia (SP), Campos dos Goytacazes (RJ), Cariacica (ES), Joinville …
Editorial team - 31, May 2025

Inside Front Cover

She Whom Jesus Loved
What is the distinguishing characteristic of a victim soul? It is that of being so disregarded in the eyes of men that she is considered to be “nothing special”. St. Martha is one of these souls. She is part of that line of victim souls who, without any merit of …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 31, May 2025

Our Readers Ask

Our Readers Ask
Marianne Farias – Recife From its earliest days, the Catholic Church adopted the custom of burying the bodies of deceased Christians. Proof of this are the catacombs – which still exist and receive many visitors – where the faithful gathered to pray and attend Holy Mass during times of persecution. …
Fr. Ricardo José Basso, EP - 31, May 2025

Editorial

Strengthen Your Brethren
Men participate in Divine Providence through their mission and their actions. And in this the Apostle Peter occupies a pre-eminent place, since he alone has been entrusted with the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven (cf. Mt 16:19). Peter has primacy among the Apostles: he is the first on the …
Editorial team - 31, May 2025

The Voice of the Popes

The Foundation of Unity
Therefore, of the one and only Church (there is) one body, one head, not two heads as a monster, namely, Christ and Peter, the Vicar of Christ and the successor of Peter, the Lord Himself saying to Peter: “Feed my sheep” (Jn 21:17). He said “my,” and generally, not individually …
Pontifical Magisterium  - 31, May 2025

The Sunday Liturgy

The Pledge of Our Victory!
The Ascension of the Lord is already our victory! Jesus ascends to the highest Heaven to reign over the Seraphim, Cherubim, Principalities and Powers. He goes before us to prepare a place for us, to then come back and take us with Him (cf. Jn 14:2-3). Now, if our Head …
Fr. Mauro Sérgio da Silva, EP - 31, May 2025

The Greatest Turnaround in History
There is great rejoicing in the Sanhedrin. The Nazarene has failed! His defeat could not have been more complete! The crowds, witnesses of His miracles, stimulated by sizable sums of money, clamoured for His destruction. The most ignominious death eliminated Him from the living. And two thieves flanked Him, forever …
Fr. Joshua Alexander Sequeira, EP - 31, May 2025

Who Is God? What Is God Like?
An innocent little boy, five or six years old, asked himself: “Who is God?” And to the answer of this question he dedicated his life. However, after writing more than eight million seven hundred thousand words, towards the end of his life St. Thomas Aquinas had a supernatural vision and …
Fr. Luiz Francisco Beccari, EP - 31, May 2025

A Banquet Offered by Mary
One of the noblest and strongest instincts with which God has endowed human beings is that of sociability. Another instinct that is less noble, but also very strong, is that of self-preservation, which leads man, among other things, to seek food. These two instincts could not fail to be intimately …
Fr. Luiz Alexandre de Souza, EP - 31, May 2025

And They Drank the Lord’s Chalice …
A peculiar procession was on its way up to Jerusalem: the Master in the lead and the disciples, fearful, behind Him (cf. Mk 10:32). Everyone felt that something very great was about to happen, but… even after three years with Jesus, the Apostles did not understand the greatness of their …
Fr. Michel Six, EP - 31, May 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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