LIVES OF THE SAINTS
St. Hermann Joseph - A Second Joseph
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 210, April 2025
How would the elevated and respectful relationship between St. Joseph and Our Lady have been? How often did the Holy Patriarch see the Queen of the Universe inclining herself before him to serve him, and accept her services! As if that were not enough, his immaculate Spouse took counsel with …
DONA LUCILIA
Dona Lucilia, Help Me!
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 210, April 2025
Nothing foreshadowed the tremendous blow that Pamela Balda’s family would suffer that Thursday afternoon, on May 30, 2024. In the house where she lives with her parents and sister in Guayaquil, Ecuador, daily activities were going on as normal when, at around 1pm, her mother, Anita Mariela Desiderio Hinostroza, was …
CATHOLIC TRUTHS
A Virtue Hidden in Simple Words
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 210, April 2025
I imagine our readers have never stopped to count how many times a day they hear or say muito obrigado [thank you in Portuguese; literally, much obliged – trans.], even in a world where this expression is becoming rarer. I would also doubt being the first person to make these …
DID YOU KNOW…
Did You Know…
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 210, April 2025
…how the Alleluia acclamation arose? Among the temperate outbursts of joy that mark the ceremony of the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night, one stands out for its candid and solemn effusiveness. It is the announcement of Easter, a moment in which the deacon, addressing the celebrant, makes a proclamation …
THE SUNDAY LITURGY
How Do We Find the Light in a World of Darkness?
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 209, March 2025
2nd Sunday of Lent The technological advances of the last few decades have revealed to man the existence of formerly unsuspected realities. Today we know about certain light wavelengths, such as ultraviolet and infrared rays, which are hidden from the human eye but can have an intense and sometimes even …
THE SUNDAY LITURGY
“Unless you repent you will likewise perish”
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 209, March 2025
3rd Sunday of Lent It was a general belief among the Hebrew people that any misfortune befalling someone was due either to their own sins or those of their parents. It was for this reason that, coming upon a blind man, the disciples once asked Jesus whether this deficiency was …
THE SUNDAY LITURGY
How to Rid Ourselves of Impenitence and Pride
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 209, March 2025
4th Sunday of Lent (Lætare Sunday) The prodigal son sinned gravely against God and against his father. Not even the sincere movement of his conversion is free from self-interest: “How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger” (Lk 15:17). …
THE POWER OF EXAMPLE
How Different God’s Judgements Are!
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 209, March 2025
Although devotion to the Carmelite Saint of Lisieux, Therese of the Child Jesus, is widespread, few recognize and admire in her a virtue that is much forgotten in our day: rectitude! Among the various supernatural qualities that adorned her soul, it can be said that rectitude served as a foundation …
TREASURES OF MSGR. JOÃO
The Great Law of Mercy
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 209, March 2025
When we have the opportunity to pore over the history of antiquity, before the coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ, we get the impression that a deep night then reigned over the world, with a dreadful density of darkness, devoid of all goodness and harmony in relationships, and all understanding …
THEME OF THE MONTH
The Sacrament of Confession - Did Jesus Christ Institute Confession?
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 209, March 2025
In proclaiming that man’s life on earth is a struggle (cf. Jb 7:1), Job is only recalling the fierce clash that takes place within each person, in the choice between good and evil. Tainted by sin, human nature is weakened to such an extent that it cannot practise virtue steadily …
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