The new information portal linked to this magazine was launched barely a month ago, on the website www.omnesmag.com, and the response received has been very favorable. The quality of the conception and design, together with the content of the news and articles, as well as the prominence of the signatures, have probably made it very popular; those who collaborate with their support, the recipients of the newsletter and the participants in the dialogues and forums also express their satisfaction. We thank everyone for their interest.
From these pages we would like to remind paper subscribers that, because they are paper subscribers, they can enjoy the digital subscription free of charge. To do so, they must enter the portal www.omnesmag.com and click on "Subscribe"; then, in the box marked "Free annual digital subscription", they must enter the requested data.
This is another expression of the complementary nature of the portal and the magazine. The reinforcement of the digital channel thus leads to mutual enrichment. The contents of the magazine are not being reduced, but expanded. For example, this issue of the magazine includes a new section on the Fathers of the Church, exclusively for subscribers. Precisely one of our objectives is to bring the reader closer to the sources, as we have been doing with the section on Sacred Scripture and the commentaries on the liturgical texts of Sundays and feast days. With the same purpose, we transmit the teaching of the Magisterium through the selection of some documents in the central pages, and we also offer a section that summarizes and comments on the words that the Holy Father pronounces each month: we are not aware of any other means of communication that does it in this way. On the strictly informative side, the efforts of our editors and bylines to get to the truth and context of the news about the Church are well known.
At this point, we would like to highlight one of the contents of the present issue. The month of March is beginning, when we celebrate the Day of the Seminary and pray to St. Joseph for vocations, precisely on the feast of the saint. It is only natural that we turn our gaze to priestly vocations, one of the "focal points" of permanent interest of the Church and of this media, and we focus on families, which often play a decisive role in the emergence of vocations. It has been a joy to collect the direct testimonies of the fathers and mothers of several priests, and their comments on the way in which their experiences in the context of the family contributed to the discovery of their call. Although this is not always or necessarily the case, because grace knows many paths, it is often the fertile ground of a family where a Christian atmosphere is breathed and where virtues are learned that vocations germinate.
