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OUR LADY OF APARECIDA LOOKING FOR ANGELS ST. JOSEMARIA
OUR LADY OF APARECIDA LOOKING FOR ANGELS ST. JOSEMARIA
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OUR LADY OF APARECIDA
LOOKING FOR ANGELS ST. JOSEMARIA
CHAPTER ONE
POPE FRANCIS AND
Our Lady of Aparecida, Sao Paulo, Brazil
CHAPTER TWO
POPE FRANCIS
CHAPTER THREE
St Joseph’s Church
CHAPTER FOUR
Sanctifying Ordinary Work
CONCLUSION
REFLECTIONS PRAYERS
INTRODUCTION
Shrine of our Lady of Aparecida!
The history of this Shrine is a good example: three fishermen, after a day of catching no fish, found something unexpected in the waters of the Parnaíba River: an image of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.
Whoever would have thought that the site of a fruitless fishing expedition would become the place where all Brazilians can feel that they are children of one Mother? God always surprises us, like the new wine in the Gospel we have just heard.
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The story of the shrine of Aparecida
Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Aparecida do Norte is a small town built on a hill about 175 km from the city of Sao Paulo, on the road to Rio de Janeiro. Beside it runs the broad, swift-flowing River Paraiba, which at this point makes a huge bend with an inlet on the right-hand side. The story of the devotion to Our Lady of Aparecida dates back to 1717. According to chroniclers, three fishermen called Joao, Filipe and Pedro were fishing with nets in the river but met with little luck. Don Pedro Almeida, Count of Assumar, Governor of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo, was about to pass that way, and the fishermen had been ordered to bring everything that came to their nets to the banquet given in his honor, thus displaying the riches of the River Paraiba. Time was going by, and in the waters of the river the net swept to and fro, but never brought up so much as a single fish in its meshes. They came to the riverside village of Itaguassu, exhausted and ready to give up. Joao flung the net for one more time, and with enormous surprise found in it a small statue of Our Lady. The three men kissed the statue devoutly, and threw their nets confidently into the water. And this time, the chronicle relates, they made an abundant catch.
St Josemaria arriving at Aparecida by helicopter from Sao Paulo
Joao had brought the statue up from the river-bed, but it was Filipe who kept it in his house. It stayed there for fifteen years until his son built a chapel in the village of Itaguassu, because the house could no longer contain the many people who came daily to pray to Our Lady. In 1745 a new church was inaugurated on the heights of Morro do Coqueiro, a hill that overlooked the whole of the Paraiba valley. A city grew up, given the name of Aparecida (“appeared”), around the first church, which was demolished and rebuilt on a larger scale several times as the number of pilgrims continued to increase. The webpage of the shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida offers a virtual tour of the current basilica.
LOOKING FOR ANGELS ST. JOSEMARIA
CHAPTER ONE
POPE FRANCIS AND
Our Lady of Aparecida, Sao Paulo, Brazil
CHAPTER TWO
POPE FRANCIS
CHAPTER THREE
St Joseph’s Church
CHAPTER FOUR
Sanctifying Ordinary Work
CONCLUSION
REFLECTIONS PRAYERS
INTRODUCTION
Shrine of our Lady of Aparecida!
The history of this Shrine is a good example: three fishermen, after a day of catching no fish, found something unexpected in the waters of the Parnaíba River: an image of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.
Whoever would have thought that the site of a fruitless fishing expedition would become the place where all Brazilians can feel that they are children of one Mother? God always surprises us, like the new wine in the Gospel we have just heard.
PRINTED WITH PERMISSION
The story of the shrine of Aparecida
Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Aparecida do Norte is a small town built on a hill about 175 km from the city of Sao Paulo, on the road to Rio de Janeiro. Beside it runs the broad, swift-flowing River Paraiba, which at this point makes a huge bend with an inlet on the right-hand side. The story of the devotion to Our Lady of Aparecida dates back to 1717. According to chroniclers, three fishermen called Joao, Filipe and Pedro were fishing with nets in the river but met with little luck. Don Pedro Almeida, Count of Assumar, Governor of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo, was about to pass that way, and the fishermen had been ordered to bring everything that came to their nets to the banquet given in his honor, thus displaying the riches of the River Paraiba. Time was going by, and in the waters of the river the net swept to and fro, but never brought up so much as a single fish in its meshes. They came to the riverside village of Itaguassu, exhausted and ready to give up. Joao flung the net for one more time, and with enormous surprise found in it a small statue of Our Lady. The three men kissed the statue devoutly, and threw their nets confidently into the water. And this time, the chronicle relates, they made an abundant catch.
St Josemaria arriving at Aparecida by helicopter from Sao Paulo
Joao had brought the statue up from the river-bed, but it was Filipe who kept it in his house. It stayed there for fifteen years until his son built a chapel in the village of Itaguassu, because the house could no longer contain the many people who came daily to pray to Our Lady. In 1745 a new church was inaugurated on the heights of Morro do Coqueiro, a hill that overlooked the whole of the Paraiba valley. A city grew up, given the name of Aparecida (“appeared”), around the first church, which was demolished and rebuilt on a larger scale several times as the number of pilgrims continued to increase. The webpage of the shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida offers a virtual tour of the current basilica.
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