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The Crown of the Noble Virgin

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 14, nº 157, November 2020
What is the meaning of the adornments that this maiden wears to please her husband and King? We do not find these details in Sacred Scripture, but in a beautiful medieval Gregorian hymn. Statue of Our Lady of Good Success - Royal Convent of the Immaculate Conception - Quito, Ecuador …

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The Founder - Following the Path of God’s Ambassadors

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, Special Edition 2024
In the prologue to his Gospel, the Virgin Apostle refers for the first time to the greatest man born of a woman in these terms: “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John” (1:6). The Evangelist uses the verb send, whose original meaning in Greek has an …

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The paternity of Msgr. João in relation to his disciples - “He is a father and a mother!”

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, Special Edition 2024
It was a Saturday morning. As he came down to breakfast Mr. João met up with a veteran member of Dr. Plinio’s work from Spain, and asked him: “Did Mr. So-and-so get in from his trip?” “No sir. We went to the airport last night to pick him up, but …

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Knight of the Holy Church - “You are of the race of heroes and saints!”

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, Special Edition 2024
Questions… Life is full of them. In the case of the Heralds, for example, some are repeated so habitually that the one being asked is able to guess them on the lips of his interlocutor even before it has been formulated. Undoubtedly, almost every member of this institution will have …

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Educator - “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ”

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, Special Edition 2024
If we could interview the Apostles and ask them what moved them to leave everything to follow Our Lord Jesus Christ, it is certain that we would hear the most diverse answers. For one, it would have been the Master’s kind and penetrating gaze; for another, the power that His …

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Faithful Son of the Church - “With the Church we will conquer”

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, Special Edition 2024
In paying homage to a father, no matter how solemn the act, it is only natural to dedicate part of it to recalling a few memories – especially when in a family setting! Therefore, I beg your indulgence as I reconstruct a particularly unforgettable scene from our youth. I say …

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Priest of Our Lord Jesus Christ - Consumed with Zeal for the Renewal of the Face of the Earth

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, Special Edition 2024
It was June 15, 2005. Dcn. João, accompanied by fourteen companions of ideal, were about to be ordained priests in the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in São Paulo, in the same place where, almost fifty years previously, he had first met Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, his spiritual …

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Mystical Life - The Mere Outline of a Mystery…

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, Special Edition 2024
“What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand” (Jn 13:7). This phrase addressed by Our Lord to St. Peter, during the washing of the feet, easily springs to the mind of anyone looking to discuss the mystical life of Msgr. João. The impressions are …

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Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament - A Eucharistic Man

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, Special Edition 2024
The great St. Ignatius of Loyola was once asked what he would do if a decree were to come from the Pope closing down the Society of Jesus. In all simplicity, he replied that he would need fifteen minutes to retire to the chapel and pray before the Blessed Sacrament. …

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Relationship with the Blessed Virgin - In the Arms of Mary

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, Special Edition 2024
In the first pages of his work dedicated to Mary Most Holy1, the last he left us before departing for eternity, Msgr. João describes the itinerary of his own Marian devotion, citing the biblical figure of Jacob’s ladder, the ends of which touched earth and Heaven. The mysterious rungs contemplated …
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