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St. Thomas Explains - Heralds Magazine

Why Are Liturgical Vestments Used?

On the cold night of Christmas, Our Lady wrapped the Child Jesus in swaddling clothes with maternal tenderness. Similarly, over the centuries, Holy Mother Church has strived to clothe her sons and ministers who serve at the altar of the Lord with dignity. However, could mere aesthetics be the only …
Editorial team - 30, November 2025

Does the Mass of a Bad Priest Have Any Value?

We could translate the title above into a simpler formulation: does a good cannon work in the hands of a bad soldier? Or: what good is a cannon if used by an enemy? We know that a good cannon loses nothing of its quality, no matter how inept the gunner …
Editorial team - 30, April 2025

Why Read the Bible?

What is our aim when we listen to a lecture, watch a play, read a book, or, in short, come into contact with any kind of text? In the first part of the work “This is the Book of God’s Commandments,” one of his first lectures, St. Thomas explains what …
Editorial team - 31, August 2025

Is it Lawful to Ask God to Remove Suffering from Us?

Prayer is the interpreter of our desires before God (cf. Summa Theologiæ. II-II, q.83, a.9). But is it right to yearn to be free from the sufferings of this life, which Providence has allowed for our good? Should not our prayers be raised to the throne of the Divine Majesty …
Editorial team - 31, July 2025

When I get distracted, does my prayer lose its value?

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 …
Editorial team - 31, December 2024

Do the Saints in Heaven Truly Intercede for Us?

In the selfish and self-serving world we live in, it is difficult to find a true friend who remains permanently willing to help us, without expecting anything in return. We might even be led to believe that this kind of person no longer exists… But yes, they do! And there …
Editorial team - 31, October 2025

Honouring Parents: a Sacred Duty

For many people pervaded by a relativistic spirit, the existence of the Decalogue – that is, the set of moral rules that should govern man’s conduct towards God and his fellow human beings – sounds like something arbitrary and unreasonable, an absurd imposition on the human race. As St. Thomas …
Editorial team - 30, June 2025

Called to Judge with Christ

“Judge not, that you be not judged” (Mt 7:1). No one denies this maxim taught by the Divine Master. However, the same Lord promised those who followed Him that they would sit on thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel (cf. Mt 19:28). Is there a contradiction in this? …
Editorial team - 31, May 2025

Epiphany of Omnipotence

Power… a word that has intoxicated so many throughout history, so often signifying an oppressive or so-called retributive force, opposed to benevolence or mercy, the fruit of the exacerbation of passions disordered by original sin. How different is the dominion exercised by the Most High! “For My thoughts are not …
Editorial team - 31, March 2025

What Is the Book of Life?

“He who conquers shall be clad thus in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the Book of Life; I will confess his name before my Father and before His Angels” (Rv 3:5). Reading this passage from Apocalypse, we almost inevitably think: “Whatever that book is, …
Editorial team - 28, February 2025

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