Dona Lucilia - Heralds Magazine

Dona Lucilia - Heralds Magazine

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

Help of the Weak and Hope of the Sick

“For some things, science has an explanation; for others, only God has the answer.” With these words, Patricia de Fátima Silva, from Rio de Janeiro State (Brazil), closes the account of how her young son underwent sixty-seven hospitalizations and seven hundred and fifty days of hospital treatment without shedding a …

Elizabete Fátima Astorino - 30, June 2021

Assistance, Protection and Security

T he words of the Psalmist could be applied to the incomparable goodness of Dona Lucilla towards those who implore her aid: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil” (Ps 23:4), for under her maternal shawl they find refuge, protection and …

Elizabete Fátima Astorino - 31, May 2021

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