THEME OF THE MONTH
Richard the Lionheart - The Importance of a Great Heart
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 212, June 2025
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 …
THEME OF THE MONTH
Isabella I of Castile - A Truly Catholic Queen
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 212, June 2025
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 …
THEME OF THE MONTH
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord - The Man With Six Heads
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 212, June 2025
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 …
LIVES OF THE SAINTS
St. Barnabas, Apostle - Faithful Witness of Christ Crucified
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 212, June 2025
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 …
DID YOU KNOW…
Did You Know…
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 212, June 2025
…why the priest says the Our Father with open arms at Holy Mass? 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 …
DONA LUCILIA
A Solicitous and Generous Mother
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 212, June 2025
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 …
HERALDS WORLDWIDE
Heralds Worldwide
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 212, June 2025
Easter Triduum With the Heralds 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 …
OUR READERS ASK
Our Readers Ask
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 211, May 2025
How important is Latin to the Church? Willian Silva Torres – Coronel Fabriciano (Brazil) According to a beautiful assertion of the Pontifical Magisterium, the Church values the Latin language, “in which wisdom itself is cloaked, as it were, in a vesture of gold”; it offers a “concise, varied and harmonious …
EDITORIAL
Priest: Everything and Nothing
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 211, May 2025
In recent years, there has been much talk of a “priestly crisis”. However, contrary to appearances, it did not start now; it was in fact ignited by an Apostle: Judas Iscariot. After him, a rash of traitors – Arius, Nestorius, Huss, among a numerous horde of others – tried to …
THE SUNDAY LITURGY
Sheep or Dust Shaken from the Feet?
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 211, May 2025
Fourth Sunday of Easter Although we are surrounded by an increasingly chaotic world, Providence never ceases to show its light to men and to nations, as is clear from this Sunday’s first reading (Acts 13:14, 43-52). St. Paul and St. Barnabas are sent to preach to distant peoples the greatest …
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