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Dona Lucilia - Heralds Magazine

Aided by a Mother

We sometimes tend to think that, in order to be answered in prayer, we must formulate long and elaborate requests. However, the Saviour’s teaching is quite different: “And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their …
Elizabete Fátima Astorino - 31, May 2023

Excellent Educator, Loving Mother

Dona Lucilia’s words were never empty of meaning and appeal. However, even more than by her words, it was through her attitude and way of being that she instilled in others, especially in her children, the desire to do good and to follow the path of moral perfection. A living …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 31, March 2023

Boundless Maternal Solicitude

“Never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.” These words from the Memorare could also be applied to a great devotee of Our Lady like Dona Lucilia, always ready to maternally welcome those who come to take …
Elizabete Fátima Astorino - 30, June 2022

The Reward for Having Faith

“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth” (Gn 1:28), the Lord preached to our first parents, certifying that the generation of offspring is the main objective of the institution of marriage. For this reason, we can well imagine how hard it is for a God-fearing couple to be deprived …
Elizabete Fátima Astorino - 28, February 2022

A Lady from Better Times

With the end of the war in 1918, a period that would be dubbed by historians as Entre deux Guerres1 began. The harmonic chords of the waltz were replaced by the strident and cacophonous sounds of jazz. The staid and solemn horse-drawn carriage gave way, once and for all, to …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 31, January 2022

Unfailing Maternal Help

As time goes on, Dona Lucilia has been obtaining more and more surprising favours for those who, regardless of the situation in which they find themselves, turn to her with true faith and confidence in her intercession. Dona Lucilia and her great-grandson in 1956 This is what happened to Luciana …
Elizabete Fátima Astorino - 31, December 2021

Resigned to God’s Will

Once, when bedridden with pains and a high fever – perhaps an omen of his impending death – Dr. Antônio said he had seen the ghost of a friend, whose life had been far from praiseworthy, enter his room through the window. The phantom sat at the foot of the …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 30, November 2021

The Choice of a Vocation in God’s Hands

As she approached the age of thirty, during long hours of quiet contemplation mingled with vocal prayer, the desire for the religious life became increasingly defined in Lucilia’s soul. However, even beyond her virtuous aspirations to the lofty and sublime was the determination to fulfil God’s will, even if this …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 30, September 2021

The Reward of Those Who “Cry Out Even Louder”

Hearing the clamour of the crowd approaching, the blind man began to cry out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Many of the people about him were alarmed, and some rudely ordered him to remain silent. But in vain, for the wretched man cried out even louder… And …
Elizabete Fátima Astorino - 31, August 2021

A Lamp at the Feet of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

With the advancing years, Dona Lucilia was naturally obliged to curtail her domestic duties, little by little, as her strength waned. But she did not give way to inactivity; and she filled her free moments with her preferred occupation: prayer – that quiet company kept with the Sacred Heart of …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 31, July 2021

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