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What Does the Catechism Say? - Heralds Magazine

I Already Go to Mass… Do I Really Need to Pray?

§ 2655 The mission of Christ and of the Holy Spirit […] is continued in the heart that prays. The spiritual writers sometimes compare the heart to an altar. Prayer internalizes and assimilates the Liturgy during and after its celebration. Even when it is lived out “in secret,” (Mt 6:6), …
Editorial team - 31, December 2024

Are We All Priests?

§§ 1591-1592 The whole Church is a priestly people. Through Baptism all the faithful share in the priesthood of Christ. This participation is called the “common priesthood of the faithful.” […] The ministerial priesthood differs in essence from the common priesthood of the faithful because it confers a sacred power …
Editorial team - 30, April 2025

God’s Voice Still Makes Itself Heard!

§104 In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human word, “but as what it really is, the word of God.” “In the Sacred Books, the Father who is in Heaven comes lovingly to meet His children, and talks …
Editorial team - 31, August 2025

A Human Necessity

§1505 By His Passion and Death on the Cross, Christ has given a new meaning to suffering: it can henceforth configure us to Him and unite us with His redemptive Passion. There are people for whom the least annoyance is a disaster. Our adorable Lord Jesus, however, elevated the role …
Editorial team - 31, July 2025

Children: An Option or a Mission?

§ 1652 By its very nature the institution of marriage and married love is ordered to the procreation and education of the offspring and it is in them that it finds its crowning glory. “Look toward Heaven, and number the stars, if you are able…” Then He said to him, …
Editorial team - 30, June 2025

Jesus Christ Alive on Earth

§1120. The saving mission entrusted by the Father to His incarnate Son was committed to the Apostles and through them to their successors: they receive the Spirit of Jesus to act in His name and in His Person. The ordained minister is the sacramental bond that ties the liturgical action …
Editorial team - 30, November 2025

The Greatest Act of Mercy

§270 God is the Father Almighty, whose fatherhood and power shed light on one another: God reveals His fatherly omnipotence by the way He takes care of our needs; by the filial adoption that He gives us (“I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons …
Editorial team - 31, March 2025

I only have “little sins”… do I really need to go to Confession?

§ 1458 Without being strictly necessary, confession of everyday faults (venial sins) is nevertheless strongly recommended by the Church. Indeed the regular confession of our venial sins helps us form our conscience, fight against evil tendencies, let ourselves be healed by Christ and progress in the life of the Spirit. …
Editorial team - 28, February 2025

Do I need to convert, too?

§ 545 Jesus invites sinners to the table of the Kingdom: “I came not to call the righteous, ut sinners” (Mk 2:17). He invites them to that conversion without which one cannot enter the Kingdom, but shows them in word and deed His Father’s boundless mercy for them and the …
Editorial team - 31, January 2025

Do We Need to Ask for Graces?

Paragraph 2010 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church highlights three relevant theological aspects regarding grace. In the first place, it emphasizes the importance of ardently seeking it because, being a gift from God, it frees us from sin and strengthens us in the practice of virtues, so that we …
Editorial team - 01, March 2026

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