TREASURES OF MSGR. JOÃO
The Supreme Priesthood
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 218, December 2025
The modern world, so devoid of symbols, leadership and beauty, in which everything depends on machines and cybernetics, makes people much more animalistic than spiritual, prone to caring only about what affects them personally or their pockets, and to acting solely on the basis of their attachments and feelings. The …
WHAT DOES THE CATECHISM SAY?
Adulation: Is it a Sin?
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 20, nº 225, July 2026
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, goes back to the act of caressing – especially animals. At its core, the flatterer is a caresser of another’s …
THE SUNDAY LITURGY
“No night is eternal”
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 20, nº 222, April 2026
April 5 – the Resurrection of the Lord The unalterable regularity with which the celebrations of the Liturgical Year unfold, despite the fluctuations of earthly events, is a demonstration of the celestial majesty of the Church, always loftily surpassing the capricious ebb and flow of human passions. Grand, but not …
BACK COVER
Infuse Us With a Ray of Your Immaculateness
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 20, nº 220, February 2026
We are children of Mary Immaculate! And if we are fond of our natural mothers, much greater should be our love for the Mother of our supernatural life. Filled with gratitude, let us ask her that, just as She triumphed over sin, She may triumph in our souls, infusing them …
ST. THOMAS EXPLAINS
Hail Mary, Full of Grace
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 20, nº 223, May 2026
St. Thomas Aquinas’s childhood was not without a singular episode of “disobedience”… Once, as a little child, he happened to come across a small scroll. Refusing stubbornly to let go of it, he wept bitterly as attempts were made to take it from him by force. His poor nanny even …
LIVES OF THE SAINTS
St. Odile of Alsace - Blind to Herself, an Eagle for God
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 14, nº 158, December 2020
In the time of St. Odile, the splendours of Christian Civilization were just beginning to emerge, but in the soul of this abbess of Carolingian calibre, they already dwelt in their fullness. Blind from birth, she became an eagle: her soul always soared to God! The souls who beheld the …
ST. THOMAS EXPLAINS
Beware of False Prophets!
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 20, nº 226, August 2026
Fraud has been a part of human life ever since the Fall in Paradise: original sin arose precisely through a deception of the Serpent, and its ravages did not end there… After Sarah laughed at the divine promise that she would bear a son in her old age, she lied …
DIVERSE
St. Nicholas or Santa Claus?
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 14, nº 158, December 2020
Most children know the answer to where the famous Santa Claus comes from: “The North Pole!” However, few know St. Nicholas, a figure who seems to have vanished from memory... “Silent night! Holy night! All is calm, all is bright; Round yon Virgin Mother and Child! Holy Infant, so tender …
THEME OF THE MONTH
The Sacred Liturgy - Embodying the Highest Aspirations of Humanity
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 218, December 2025
“Grant, O merciful God, that, just as the Saviour of the world, born this day, is the author of divine generation for us, so He may be the giver even of immortality,”1 prays the priest at Christmas Mass. However, what is the basis of the bold affirmation in this prayer, …
TENDENCIES AND MENTALITIES
Extravagance or Boldness
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 214, August 2025
The Ancien Régime – as the political and social system in France during the period immediately preceding the Revolution of 1789 came to be known – was a complex era. In it, all the tradition forged over the centuries by Christian Civilization often coexisted with the worst foolishness stemming from …
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