Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 20, nº 227, September 2026
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 20, nº 226, August 2026
Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 20, nº 225, July 2026
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Holy Guardian Angels - Guardians and Advocates for Men
Due to an obsessive happy-ending mentality, modern optimism is very apt to see no struggle, difficulty or danger in anything. But the Church, on the contrary, teaches us that this life is a combat sown with physical and spiritual risks. For this reason, Divine Providence has appointed an Angel to …
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30, September 2020
Blessed the Day that Saw Her Birth!
The birth of Our Lady brought to humanity something hitherto unknown: a creature free of any stain, a lily of incomparable beauty that was to gladden the angelic choirs and the whole earth. In the midst of the exile of the corrupt human race, an immaculate being appeared, conceived without …
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31, August 2020
History’s Most Glorious Event, after the Ascension
The Crowning of Our Lady, by Nicolò di Pietro Montreal Museum of Fine Arts One fact in sacred history that calls our attention is that Our Lord chose to ascend to Heaven before the eyes of men, and that the same happened with the Assumption of Our Lady. Why did …
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31, July 2020
Soul Full of Enthusiasm and Logic
St. Ignatius of Loyola - Santa Casa, Loyola (Spain) When we analyse St. Ignatius of Loyola’s way of being and acting, we realize that his love and enthusiasm for the institutions and teachings of the Church imparted reflections of those perfections to his own soul, without, however, impinging on his …
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30, June 2020
Christ in Us through the Holy Eucharist
When I was a boy, children were asked, in catechism classes, if they believed that Our Lord Jesus Christ was really present in the Holy Eucharist. They were supposed to give an answer that still echoes in my memory today. It was very beautiful, like all the responses from the …
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31, May 2020
The Merciful Gaze of Mary
T rying to explain the essence of my devotion to Our Lady, I recently found an image that, although very simple, expresses my thought well. Let us imagine a well-formed polyhedron. If its faces are triangular, looking at one of them, in some sense we can see the others, for …
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30, April 2020
Sublime Lesson of Resignation to Suffering
It is a long-standing tradition among us to say a few words on the passage of the Gospel referring to the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, during these days of Holy Week. And, since today is Holy Thursday, it seems appropriate to read and comment on some passages from …
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31, March 2019
Majesty and Suffering
It is not unusual to find charming, venerable, worthy and dignified pictures depicting the Holy House of Nazareth, where the Holy Family dwelt. In general, they endeavour to show it with a diaphanous purity, inundated with the light of a beautifully luminous day. But there is more: a morning brightness …
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30, November 2018
The Axis of History
On a certain occasion, rummaging around in one of my grandmother’s1 drawers, I discovered something I had never noticed before in a bundle of old papers: a panoramic photograph depicting a papal procession. It was part of a series of postcards, forming a full-colour brochure, showing St. Peter’s Basilica from …
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01, February 2026
Children of Mary’s Merciful Initiative
The writings of Sister Maria de Ágreda,1 in which she records the supernatural revelations she received, tell of many special concepts contained in the Book of Revelation, expressed symbolically and as yet undiscovered, concerning Our Lady’s relationship with the Apostles, especially St. John the Evangelist. When the time comes for …
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01, May 2026