Requests from Our Lady
1 . House of Charitable Assistance
It is the place where the practice of charity and solidarity with the poor are carried out. In this place, in response to Our Lady's request in Her many messages, communal soup meals are given to the children and families most in need, with few living conditions. This request of the Virgin reminds us of what Jesus said to his disciples: "They need not go away; you give them something to eat!" (Matthew 14:16). In the course of the years, the hearts of those who have taken Her words seriously have matured and become enlightened, to the point of realizing that it is a place created not only to give soup and food but to carry out a project of catechisms, of guidance and assistance to the poor: to carry out a social action that provides means to help the poorest families in the community; a space where social works are carried out that will help the local community;
2. The Sanctuary
Place of restoration of souls and hearts. This Sanctuary shows us the action of God in the life of His people, first reminding us of his covenant of love in the course of the centuries, from the past generations to the present; a covenant that makes us better aware of the love of our God for all His sons and daughters and His ardent desire to restore souls and to help all those who turn to His divine and paternal love;
"Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is God, a faithful God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations." (Deuteronomy 7:9):
"Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord" (Jeremiah 31, 31-33);
A place of faith and spiritual renewal, where His children are welcomed by His paternal embrace and by His strong arm that defends and destroys all the evils that today threaten so many: drugs, violence, the wave of wickedness and spiritual decadence which devastate many cities today. In the sanctuary, the children of God are called to be witnesses to the light, the light that overcomes the darkness in our day and there they find faith, hope and a deep trust in the merciful action of God.
3. The Chapel
It was an insistent request of the Mother of God at the beginning of the apparitions. It has the shape of a rubber tappers' smoker and was built in the place indicated by the Virgin.
The chapel has an important and profound significance in the messages of Our Lady: She reminds us of Her rubber-tapper children who were mistreated, exploited and killed in the past, but also the sweat and blood shed by the poorest, the landless tortured to death in several rubber plantations currently by the Amazon and in exchange with the other countries. Before we enter the chapel, we must take off our shoes. This request of the Virgin reminds us that before Her and Her Son Jesus, we are all equal without distinction of color, class or social position; and when we enter it, before we make any request, we should pray for those who suffer the most in this world.
4. The Devotion to the Most Chaste Heart of St. Joseph
When we come across this request, we might think that it is just another popular devotion, which would consist only in pious prayers to St. Joseph, but that is not exactly what it is. The message of the Virgin calls attention to a greater danger that is spreading and threatening the lives of many, with the desecration of families and the spread of wrong and harmful behaviors in family life, which can cause Christian families to be affected in the its foundations and thus create a culture of sin, death and paganism, where God is no longer worshiped within a holy family environment, blessed by His divine presence, in the formation of a Christian couple, man and woman.
Devotion to the Most Chaste Heart of St. Joseph has come to be the remedy that God gives us to our times so perverted by the depraved and mundane behaviors of men and women that "they count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their dissipation, carousing with you. Their eyes are full of adultery and insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!" (2 Peter 2: 13-14) First of all, you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own passions." (2 Peter 3:3)
Therefore, Saint Joseph, the head of the Holy Family and Protector of the Holy Church of God, has shown to us as a model of fidelity to the Lord, who obeyed the orders of the Most High and faithfully fulfilled them, having a great love for Jesus and the Immaculate Virgin, consecrating his life entirely to them. We can also say that Saint Joseph is presented to us by God as a sign and example for men of our times: men who have lost their identities and personalities; men who are no longer righteous before the Lord and who do not faithfully fulfill their role as son, father and husband; men who are weak, corrupted in mind, heart and body, by impurity and worldly passions.
St. Joseph comes to show men to be true men, free from all bondage to sin, with mind, soul and heart turned to the Lord. His Most Chaste Heart is the sign of total surrender we should make to God; the heart is the essential part of the human being where the feelings and their will are represented in adhering to God's plan because "a good man takes good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and a bad man takes bad things from his own bad treasure, because the mouth speaks of what the heart is full of. Why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and not do what I tell you? (Lk 6: 45-46). " Moreover, the Lord tells us that He will give us "A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and you a heart of flesh." (Ezekiel 36:26) and "But this is the convenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." (Jer 31:33)
Saint Joseph certainly had before the Lord a new heart, a heart of flesh that he truly loved, where the law of the Lord was engraved, for he lived it faithfully and fulfilled it with all his being. This love and faithfulness God desires to grant to all men and women who honor the Chaste Heart of St. Joseph as he wishes. To be devoted to this pure and chaste Heart is to have the benevolent gaze of the Lord always upon you.
5. Processions to the Fountain of Mercy and Grace
In Itapiranga, the Blessed Virgin blessed a spring of water existing in the place of apparitions for the corporal relief and spiritual comfort of all Her sick children. There She asked that Her children come in procession all day November 9 of each year, to pray for all the sick and drink from the spring water; She also asked that this day be considered as the day of Our Lady of the Sick.
In this request, the need arises to form a pastoral care dedicated to health and care for the sick who arrive there in search of bodily and spiritual relief for their sufferings. Our Lady came to grant us Her maternal support. In fact, as she herself mentioned in Her message, this source was a grace bestowed upon her children by a request of her before the Merciful Heart of her Son Jesus.
Jesus is the fountain of mercy, the Virgin is full of grace. The fountain takes these two names because they represent them. Jesus and Our Lady are the channels of mercy and grace that the Eternal Father uses to give His children their gifts and their blessings.
It is worth mentioning that the first reading of the celebration of November 9, chosen by the Virgin Mother, confirms Her request, made to Her confidants in Itapiranga:
It is the place where the practice of charity and solidarity with the poor are carried out. In this place, in response to Our Lady's request in Her many messages, communal soup meals are given to the children and families most in need, with few living conditions. This request of the Virgin reminds us of what Jesus said to his disciples: "They need not go away; you give them something to eat!" (Matthew 14:16). In the course of the years, the hearts of those who have taken Her words seriously have matured and become enlightened, to the point of realizing that it is a place created not only to give soup and food but to carry out a project of catechisms, of guidance and assistance to the poor: to carry out a social action that provides means to help the poorest families in the community; a space where social works are carried out that will help the local community;
2. The Sanctuary
Place of restoration of souls and hearts. This Sanctuary shows us the action of God in the life of His people, first reminding us of his covenant of love in the course of the centuries, from the past generations to the present; a covenant that makes us better aware of the love of our God for all His sons and daughters and His ardent desire to restore souls and to help all those who turn to His divine and paternal love;
"Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is God, a faithful God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations." (Deuteronomy 7:9):
"Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord" (Jeremiah 31, 31-33);
A place of faith and spiritual renewal, where His children are welcomed by His paternal embrace and by His strong arm that defends and destroys all the evils that today threaten so many: drugs, violence, the wave of wickedness and spiritual decadence which devastate many cities today. In the sanctuary, the children of God are called to be witnesses to the light, the light that overcomes the darkness in our day and there they find faith, hope and a deep trust in the merciful action of God.
3. The Chapel
It was an insistent request of the Mother of God at the beginning of the apparitions. It has the shape of a rubber tappers' smoker and was built in the place indicated by the Virgin.
The chapel has an important and profound significance in the messages of Our Lady: She reminds us of Her rubber-tapper children who were mistreated, exploited and killed in the past, but also the sweat and blood shed by the poorest, the landless tortured to death in several rubber plantations currently by the Amazon and in exchange with the other countries. Before we enter the chapel, we must take off our shoes. This request of the Virgin reminds us that before Her and Her Son Jesus, we are all equal without distinction of color, class or social position; and when we enter it, before we make any request, we should pray for those who suffer the most in this world.
4. The Devotion to the Most Chaste Heart of St. Joseph
When we come across this request, we might think that it is just another popular devotion, which would consist only in pious prayers to St. Joseph, but that is not exactly what it is. The message of the Virgin calls attention to a greater danger that is spreading and threatening the lives of many, with the desecration of families and the spread of wrong and harmful behaviors in family life, which can cause Christian families to be affected in the its foundations and thus create a culture of sin, death and paganism, where God is no longer worshiped within a holy family environment, blessed by His divine presence, in the formation of a Christian couple, man and woman.
Devotion to the Most Chaste Heart of St. Joseph has come to be the remedy that God gives us to our times so perverted by the depraved and mundane behaviors of men and women that "they count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their dissipation, carousing with you. Their eyes are full of adultery and insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!" (2 Peter 2: 13-14) First of all, you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own passions." (2 Peter 3:3)
Therefore, Saint Joseph, the head of the Holy Family and Protector of the Holy Church of God, has shown to us as a model of fidelity to the Lord, who obeyed the orders of the Most High and faithfully fulfilled them, having a great love for Jesus and the Immaculate Virgin, consecrating his life entirely to them. We can also say that Saint Joseph is presented to us by God as a sign and example for men of our times: men who have lost their identities and personalities; men who are no longer righteous before the Lord and who do not faithfully fulfill their role as son, father and husband; men who are weak, corrupted in mind, heart and body, by impurity and worldly passions.
St. Joseph comes to show men to be true men, free from all bondage to sin, with mind, soul and heart turned to the Lord. His Most Chaste Heart is the sign of total surrender we should make to God; the heart is the essential part of the human being where the feelings and their will are represented in adhering to God's plan because "a good man takes good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and a bad man takes bad things from his own bad treasure, because the mouth speaks of what the heart is full of. Why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and not do what I tell you? (Lk 6: 45-46). " Moreover, the Lord tells us that He will give us "A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and you a heart of flesh." (Ezekiel 36:26) and "But this is the convenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." (Jer 31:33)
Saint Joseph certainly had before the Lord a new heart, a heart of flesh that he truly loved, where the law of the Lord was engraved, for he lived it faithfully and fulfilled it with all his being. This love and faithfulness God desires to grant to all men and women who honor the Chaste Heart of St. Joseph as he wishes. To be devoted to this pure and chaste Heart is to have the benevolent gaze of the Lord always upon you.
5. Processions to the Fountain of Mercy and Grace
In Itapiranga, the Blessed Virgin blessed a spring of water existing in the place of apparitions for the corporal relief and spiritual comfort of all Her sick children. There She asked that Her children come in procession all day November 9 of each year, to pray for all the sick and drink from the spring water; She also asked that this day be considered as the day of Our Lady of the Sick.
In this request, the need arises to form a pastoral care dedicated to health and care for the sick who arrive there in search of bodily and spiritual relief for their sufferings. Our Lady came to grant us Her maternal support. In fact, as she herself mentioned in Her message, this source was a grace bestowed upon her children by a request of her before the Merciful Heart of her Son Jesus.
Jesus is the fountain of mercy, the Virgin is full of grace. The fountain takes these two names because they represent them. Jesus and Our Lady are the channels of mercy and grace that the Eternal Father uses to give His children their gifts and their blessings.
It is worth mentioning that the first reading of the celebration of November 9, chosen by the Virgin Mother, confirms Her request, made to Her confidants in Itapiranga:
The reading practically recalls the place that the Virgin chose to bless the spring in Itapiranga.