By CNA staff
The recovery of the shrine at the time of Our Lady of Fatima’s apparitions to Sister Lucy in Pontevedra, Spain, is progressing, but Father Javier Siegrist noted that her condition, if she shows our love for Our Lady, “would make you break. “tears.
In a recent YouTube video posted through the Cari Filii Foundation, Siegrist, a priest from the diocese of Getafe in Spain, noted the progress of recovery paintings in the square, the new roof.
However, “it is still inadequate and much is needed,” said the priest, who visited the site and asked for continued contributions to fund the reconstruction effort.
“Our Lady asked Lucia to spread devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and all of us who love Our Lady can collaborate in this enterprise with our small contribution,” the priest said.
Siegrist insists that the Shrine of the Apparitions of Pontevedra “has a very similar effect and continues the message of Fatima” and therefore “we cannot allow it to continue in this ruinous state. “
“If it were said that religion is expressed in its manifestations, of course, if religion and our love for Our Lady are manifested, one would burst into tears,” the priest commented.
Siegrist encouraged everyone to “collaborate in this beautiful enterprise which is to spread the message of the Immaculate Heart and the desire to console the center of the Virgin so surrounded by thorns for the sins with which we, ungrateful men, pierce it. “
The sanctuary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in Pontevedra was acquired through the Spanish Episcopal Conference in 2021 in an attempt to save it from the state of oblivion in which it found itself. In the past it belonged to the World Apostolate of Fatima in Spain.
The fixed order will cost about $ 900,000, of which about $ 250,000 have been raised, enough to complete the first phase, which consisted of finishing the roof and redoing the floor of the mobile where Sister Lucia won the appearances.
Sister Lucy won the ladder of the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus in this position on December 10, 1925. According to Lucia herself, the Child said: “Have compassion on your Mother’s heart. It is surrounded by thorns that ungrateful men pierce in each and every moment, and there is no one to do acts of reparation to remove them.
Then Our Lady encouraged Sister Lucy to reveal the devotion of the first Saturdays of the month that she had already won in 1917.
Donations for the recovery of the shrine from the apparitions can be made on the www. santuariodelasapariciones. org/ website.
(Note: Ask for a receipt for tax purposes, which applies only to Spanish citizens. Click “other” for the document type and document number to enter, for example, a driver’s license number. )
This story was first published through ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language press partner. It has been translated and adapted through CNA.