2.
“HIGH UP ON
THE SLOPE IN THE COVA DA IRIA, I WAS PLAYING WITH JACINTA AND FRANCISCO AT
BUILDING A LITTLE STONE WALL AROUND A CLUMP OF FURZE.SUDDENLY WE SAW WHAT
SEEMED TO BE A FALSH OF LIGHTING. (Sister
Lucia, description of 13th May 1917.)
BASILICA OF
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY
The 3
little shepherds, before the apparition on 13th May 1917, were on
that place building a “ small wall”.Years later this Basilica would be built
,besides the chapel built in the apparition site, responding to me one of Our
Lady of Fatima’s request: I want to tell you that a chapel is to be built here
in my honour.
I recall
before the altar, the Church, my parish community, my family and all who
somehow helped me to born by the Spirit. Next to the cross, the pilgrim image
of the Virgin who has travelled through countries and people of all over the
world, encourages me to gradually build this pilgrim –Church , acknowledging
that it is Him who really builds it.
In a
thanksgiving attitude I am willing to be part of that construction and
simultaneously to look after the inner home, of the heart- space where God
wants to live in.
Based on
some expressions of Benedict XVI, on 13th May 2010, I ask saint
Francisco and Jacinta Marto :
Francisco
and Jacinta,
Who made a
donation to God Of your life and sharing it with others,
Help me to
open my heart to love universality, thus, building a civilization of Love and
Peace.
Intercede
for me so that the Mother may transplant in my heart the Love of God that burns
in Hers and speed up the Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart.
Our Father,
Hail Mary, Glory.
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