Totus Tuus - To Jesus through Mary.

To impel the beauty of the new evangelization – this is the charism of the Heralds of the Gospel; Its founder, Monsignor João Dias explains."The Heralds of the Gospel is a private association of faithful with a very special charism based essentially on three points: the Eucharist, Mary and the Pope."

The Heralds of the Gospel are an International Association of the Faithful of Pontifical Right, the first to be established by the Holy See in the third millennium, during a ceremony which occurred during the feast of the Chair of St. Peter (February 22) in 2001.

The Heralds of the Gospel strive to be instruments of holiness in the Church by encouraging close unity between faith and life, and working to evangelize particularly through art and culture. Their apostolate, which differs depending upon the environments in which they work, gives pride of place to parish animation, evangelizing families, providing catechetical and cultural formation to young people, and disseminating religious Iiterature.



Thursday, 23 December 2010

The Incarnation - The Hidden Word is Made Manifest




This excerpt from St. Hippolytus’ treatise against the heresy of Noetus (Cap. 9-12: PG 10, 815-819) is used in the Roman Office of Readings for December 23 during the fourth week of Advent. St. Hippolytus is one of the Early Church Fathers.

When the Word was hidden within God himself
he was invisible to the created world,
but God made him visible.

First God gave utterance to his voice,
engendering light from light,
and then he sent his own mind into the world as its Lord.
Visible before to God alone and not to the world,
God make him visible so that the world
could be saved by seeing him.

This mind that entered our world
was made known as the Son of God.
All things came into being through him;
but he alone is begotten by the Father.

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