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THE VOICE OF THE POPES

Let Us Learn from the Teaching of St. Thomas

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 17, nº 189, July 2023
Today I would like to complete, with a third instalment, my Catecheses on St. Thomas Aquinas. Even more than 700 years after his death we can learn much from him. My Predecessor, Pope Paul VI, said […]: “all of us who are faithful sons and daughters of the Church can …
DID YOU KNOW…

Did You Know…

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 208, February 2025
…why the chalice at Mass is covered with a veil? At the beginning of the Offertory of the Mass, the acolyte hands the priest or deacon the chalice and paten covered by a small veil of the colour corresponding to the liturgical day, taking care that the sacred vessels remain …
TENDENCIES AND MENTALITIES

Two Ways of “being god”?

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 208, February 2025
Here are two artistic representations, each portraying a different god, as conceived by their respective worshippers. The first depicts the god Moloch at the apex of the ritual proper to him. The second is an image of Our Lord Jesus Christ that presides over the entrance door of Amiens Cathedral …
GOSPEL COMMENTARY

All or Nothing…

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 17, nº 189, July 2023
Gospel of the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus said to His disciples: 44 “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. 45 “Again, …
DIVERSE

Brief Biography of St. Thomas Aquinas - The Angelic Itinerary of a Man

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 17, nº 189, July 2023
Thomas was born in Aquino at the end of 1224 or the beginning of the following year into one of the most illustrious families of the Kingdom of Sicily. His relatives included the Emperor Redbeard, his uncle, and Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire, his cousin. Hoping to see …
DIVERSE

The Highest Title of Glory

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 17, nº 189, July 2023
When the young aspirant Thomas Aquinas pronounced his principium – inaugural class – in the troubled days of 1256, no one could have suspected they were standing before the one whom future centuries would call “Doctor of Doctors”, “Prince of Theologians”, “Tabernacle of the science and wisdom of God.”1 Indeed, …
DIVERSE

A theology adopted by the Catholic Church - Go to Thomas!

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 17, nº 189, July 2023
Catholics today often lack elementary notions about their religion. Some do not even know why they belong to it. They do not realize that their Church is a divine institution, founded more than two thousand years ago by the Incarnate Word, and that it is accompanied by a promise of …
DIVERSE

Thomas of Aquino, the Saint - Humility, Prudence and Piety

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 17, nº 189, July 2023
Historians lacking in religious sense often create a unilateral vision of illustrious persons whose central priority was living a life devoted to God. Such biographers fail, no doubt, by appreciating only one or another quality of the figures they portray, forgetting the basic philosophical principle that “the whole is greater …
PLINIO CORRÊA DE OLIVEIRA

A Beacon of Catholic Sense

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 17, nº 189, July 2023
St. Thomas Aquinas was a great beacon which God placed in His Church, enlighten, comfort and encourage souls throughout the centuries so that they might more courageously resist the onslaughts of heresy. With his brilliant intelligence and ardent piety he tackled all the problems which in his time were open …
DIVERSE

Contemplation according to St. Thomas Aquinas - To Contemplate is to Know and Love!

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 17, nº 189, July 2023
To consider, to appreciate, to observe attentively, to transcend from the physical to the immaterial, to rise from the natural to the supernatural… what exactly is contemplation? To answer this question, we could define contemplation as the act of reflecting on something in search of its deepest meaning. Is that …
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