November 2026, No. 229
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Who are the Heralds of the Gospel?
Help of Christians
Christmas Carols
July 2026, No. 225
Inside Front Cover
It is Through Obedience That One Gives All
Blessed Eugénie Joubert
I must reject any and all reasoning that oppresses me, disturbs me, prevents me from uniting with Our Lord. For several months He has been asking the same thing of …
01, July 2026
Our Readers Ask
What is the true meaning of Acts 17:24?
Fr. Ricardo José Basso, EP
The verse from the Acts of the Apostles that raises doubts about its interpretation is the following: “The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of …
01, July 2026
Editorial
Where to Find True Friendship?
Editorial team
All people, as social beings, want to have friends. There are childhood friends, work friends, those who share the same interests, but there are also occasional and false friends… The …
01, July 2026
The Voice of the Popes
He Wishes to Be Our Friend!
Editorial team
What is friendship? Idem velle, idem nolle – wanting the same things, rejecting the same things: this was how it was expressed in antiquity. Friendship is a communion of thinking …
01, July 2026
The Sunday Liturgy
The Virtue of the Great
Fr. Joshua Alexander Sequeira, EP
The first reading for this Sunday sounds familiar to every Catholic ear, for it appears on the commemoration of the Saviour’s entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday: “See, your king …
01, July 2026
The Sunday Liturgy
The Magnificent Hierarchy of Creation
Fr . Rodrigo Alonso Solera Lacayo, EP
We live in a society steeped in egalitarian principles. To a greater or lesser degree, we are influenced by a profound tendency to reject, or at least resent, the least …
01, July 2026
Divine Patience, Absolute Justice
Fr. Manuel Francisco Rodríguez Sancho, EP
How easy it is to correct with excessive rigour, especially when it comes to someone else’s fault that bothers us! In the parable of the wheat and the tares, however, …
01, July 2026
A Transformative Treasure
Fr. Timothy Joseph Ring, EP
The parables taught by Our Lord constitute an invitation to the Kingdom of Heaven – an expression used more than thirty times by St. Matthew. In today’s Gospel, this Kingdom …
01, July 2026
Treasures of Msgr. João
True Friendship
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP
When we look up at the sky and see the stars, they look like an immense collection of tiny lights, very similar to each other. However, if we observe them …
01, July 2026
Theme of the Month
Spiritual friendship – One Heart and One Soul
Fr. Aumir Antonio Scomparin, EP
Some say that friendship is as old as humanity itself… Indeed, endowed with a sociable nature, human beings have a need to form groups and to interact with one another. …
01, July 2026
Tell Me Who Your Friends Are…
Lucas Rezende de Sousa
Let us imagine that God has granted us the possibility of creating. Not just any being, but a human being; not just any human being, but a friend; not only …
01, July 2026
What Does the Catechism Say?
Adulation: Is it a Sin?
Editorial team
The excerpt from the Catechism points to three interconnected sins: flattery, adulation, and complaisance. It focuses on the second, whose meaning is “seduction through false praise.”1 Its Latin etymology, adulari, …
01, July 2026
Biblical Teachings
The Flower of Human Relationships
Mariana Xavier Rosário
In creating us with an instinct for sociability, the Divine Craftsman imprinted on the human soul the need for mutual help. In the reciprocal admiration of the gifts received by …
01, July 2026
St. Thomas Explains
Is it More Meritorious to Love an Enemy or a Friend?
Fr. Cyril Avinash, EP
The coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the revelation of the commandment of love profoundly transformed human relationships. Until then, justice was limited to the rigour of the law …
01, July 2026
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
The Joy of Doing Good
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
The topic of chivalrous treatment reminds me of a lot of things from my childhood, when the issues of relationships and life in society were beginning to emerge in my …
01, July 2026
Splendours of Christian Civilization
A Pinch of Salt in the Sweetness of Life
Fr. Felipe de Azevedo Ramos, EP
Following the bitter years of the French Revolution (1789–1799), the diplomat Talleyrand, reflecting on the collapse of the Ancien Régime, left a nostalgic account: “Those who did not live in …
01, July 2026
Lives of the Saints
July 20 – St. Elijah, Prophet – The Fiery One
Rúben Manuel Cunha Guimarães
If God called Abraham friend, Isaac my servant and Jacob my holy one, He might well call Elijah my prophet. All the more so because, at the Transfiguration, Our Lord …
01, July 2026
Dona Lucilia
An Unconditional Mother
Elizabete Fátima Talarico Astorino
“If my mother is as she is, [Our Lady], who is the Mother of mothers, the Mother of all humanity, I cannot imagine how She must be!”,1 Dr. Plinio Corrêa …
01, July 2026
Heralds Worldwide
Under the Protection of the Virgin of Fatima
Editorial team
Among the celebrations held in honour of Our Lady of Fatima, we highlight the Masses presided over by the Metropolitan Archbishop, Cardinal Adalberto Martínez Flores, at Asuncion Cathedral in Paraguay …
01, July 2026
History – Life’s Teacher
Of Wine and War
Gabriela Cristina Rodrigues da Silva
A famous French company specializing in fine carpets is working on a project with all due patriotic zeal. At Chevalier, after cleaning antique Aubussons – a kind of fine rug …
01, July 2026
Did You Know…
…how tabernacles came about?
Editorial team
Such is the Church’s love for Jesus Christ that, after the Bridegroom ascended to Heaven, she was not content to encounter Him again only during Holy Mass, but wished to …
01, July 2026
…who were the first Westerners to enter the Forbidden City?
Editorial team
China: a kingdom of dreams, surrounded by walls so imposing that they remained practically insurmountable until the end of the 16th century. However, there is no place on earth, however …
01, July 2026
Tendencies and Mentalities
Silence, an Inexhaustible Source of Harmony
Santiago Vieto Rodríguez
Silence… stillness… Let us pause for a moment and imagine ourselves in a solitary place where our senses can be better penetrated by the fullness of calm. Be it on …
01, July 2026
The Treasure of prayer
Come to Me and I will give you peace
Thomas à Kempis, OSA
My child, I am the Mother of Mercy, with a Heart always full of compassion; I am the mysterious ladder of sinners, I am the hope and pardon of the …
01, July 2026
