ST. THOMAS EXPLAINS
When I get distracted, does my prayer lose its value?
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 207, January 2025
According to St. Thomas Aquinas (cf. Summa Theologiæ. II-II, q.83, a.1-2), prayer consists in the elevation of our mind to God, inflamed by devotion and the fervour of charity. We do not pray to God in order to manifest something unknown to His infinite wisdom or to change the designs …
HISTORY – LIFE’S TEACHER
Anne of St. Bartholomew and the Power of Prayer - An Elite Troop for the Church
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 207, January 2025
“Tell me, who is the first captain of the age?” a noble lady asked Maurice of Nassau.1 “Spinola is the second!” he replied proudly, thereby naming himself first man-at-arms. Maurice led the Calvinist troops in Holland and had already inflicted numerous defeats on the Catholic forces, conquering almost the entire …
A PROPHET FOR OUR TIMES
The Unimaginable and the Dream Meet
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 207, January 2025
When there is a society – that is, an entire social body – that lives in unison, artists appear who, imbued with the same desire, make what that society wishes. And the work of art is a consonance – of one or a few men, endowed with special talents for …
LIVES OF THE SAINTS
St. Timothy - A Biography Written by God Himself
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 19, nº 207, January 2025
There are two kinds of biography that make history captivating: first, that of illustrious, famous figures, the heroes charging at full gallop in the splendour of the day; then there are the stories of those who made mystery their abode, whose most beautiful traits of soul escaped human admiration, allowing …
HERALDS WORLDWIDE
Heralds Worldwide
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, nº 206, December 2024
CHURCH AND WORLD EVENTS
Church and World Events
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 16, nº 178, August 2022
Caritas Spain Celebrates Seventy-Fifth Anniversary This year Caritas Spain completes seventy-five years of service. The institution came into being in the difficult post-war period both nationally and worldwide, with a view to addressing the great hardships the population was facing at that time. In 1947, the founding statutes were drawn …
DIVERSE
Our Lady of Guadalupe - Empress of the Americas
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, nº 206, December 2024
For the first twelve Franciscan apostles who, at the request of Hernán Cortés, arrived in Mexico from Spain in the 16th century, it was no small undertaking to spread the light of the Faith in the dense idolatrous darkness that prevailed there. At the top of the Aztec pyramids, the …
DIVERSE
Notre-Dame de Paris - A Cathedral of Perfect Beauty, the Joy of All the Earth
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, nº 206, December 2024
April 15, 2019. On that Monday of Holy Week, the whole world stopped, stunned, to watch the fire that devoured the famous Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Flames tore through the Gothic florets, smoke billowed from the centuries-old structure, the famous spire, masterpiece of Viollet-le-Duc, crumbled into a pile of charred …
PLINIO CORRÊA DE OLIVEIRA
The Wondrous Fragrance of Christmas
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, nº 206, December 2024
Nothing could be more opportune, on the occasion of Christmas, than for us to comment on the advent of the Incarnate Word into the world, born of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. These considerations are based on the writings left by the seer Anne Catherine Emmerich,1 a 19th-century German mystic favoured …
LIVES OF THE SAINTS
St. Nicholas of Bari - The Famous Unknown
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, nº 206, December 2024
A person whom everyone recognizes, appreciates, speaks of and yet nobody – or almost nobody – really knows who he was. St. Nicholas of Bari is the famous saint who distributes Christmas gifts and, curiously, few are aware of his story and the reasons for his fame throughout the world. …
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