THE SANCTUARY |
THE SANCTUARY REQUESTED BY THE BLESSED VIRGIN
After the Gladys' question if She wishes a chapel or a sanctuary, She says: " The Scriptures tell that ". "Fulfill my word ". Indeed, the 9th of November She
had given a message accompanied by a biblical quotation which was
Exodus 25, 8:
Our Lady requests a new Sanctuary, that remain as another sign of Her presence. In the first anniversary of the apparitions (25th of September 1984) Our Lady recommends that the construction that She so eagerly asks be started as soon as possible and this order is repeated incessantly throughout Her messages. "You must request with firmness, give importance to my request, my house must be constructed. Children of mine, give your Mother what She requests from you. Invite my children to pray in the place chosen and sanctified by me. And my children will come " (23-11-84 nº 383)" "I want to be able to receive you on a not too distant day, in the House which I have chosen " (18-12-84 nº 414) On November 24th, 1983, Our Lady indicated the place where She wanted Her House to be built ("El Campito "). And She did it as follows: "(...) (Gladys) sees It (the Sanctuary) in front of the block where her house is, where there is a field, and She says: "This is where I want to be, this is my place"  At night of the same day that in vision Gladys sees the place chosen by Maria, she goes to this place with a group of people and when she is indicating the precise site where she saw the sanctuary in a vision, a ray of light falls exactly in that place, which seems to sink into the ground. A nine years old girl who was with the group also saw the ray of light.. On January 4th, 1984, a little more than three months after the first apparition, a ray of light illuminates, for the second time, the exact point that will get to be, with time, the threshold of the Sanctuary, marked today, by a stone. On May 22nd Our Lady gives Gladys more details: "Your Mother requests Her House from
you. I do not want magnificence, but I do want an spacious
House”.
Gladys wrote: "I saw the project of the temple
yesterday. Today, when the Virgin appeared, I asked Her if
it pleased to
In September the construction had not yet begun. It was only possible to start it in October and the construction had to face the terrible winter of the economic crisis. Is it possible that this was the Winter mentioned by our Lady? THE FOUNDATION STONE
On September 25th 1986, the third anniversary of the first apparition, the bishop placed the foundation stone of the future temple. Monsignor Castagna ascribed the responsibility of the construction of the material and spiritual temple to the whole people of God. The financing of the works became very difficult because of the terrible economic crisis undergone by Argentina, with a galloping inflation and by the increasing restrictions that prevailed. The apparitions came to radiate peace, in the middle of the difficult situation. THE WORKS
A dynamic system therefore, has been designed, that contemplates the different situations that will take place in the Sanctuary, articulating spaces that enrich an aesthetic vision, centralized in the main space of this work, that emphasizes the sacrifice, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the hierarchized altar, of the celebration of the Holy Mass.
At the present moment it is in the stage of construction of the dome. Working platforms and scaffolds have risen that are essential for the construction and the security of those who will execute the dome. The dome has two covers, an interior one formed by sections (gores), constituted by sixty-four beams; each one of those gores will have eighteen panels (caissons), that vary in size, alternating two decorative designs which represent important signs of this place, the A and the M of the Ave Maria and the Cross, and one second exterior cover made of copper, ending in a lantern that culminates with an orb that holds the Cross. All this rises from the level at +31.40 mts. which is the point from where the dome rises. In each one of these symbols our prayers and efforts are represented so that this is obtained. 
HAIL, MOST
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY!!!
Contributions can
be made to:
Banco Bisel S.A.
To be credited under Nº 9745/04 in Current
Banco de Galicia: To be credited in Current Account in Pesos Nº 177/5 or Saving Account in Dollars Nº 4000116-3 Suc.117-8. Banco de la Nación
Argentina: To be credited in Current Account
Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires To be credited in Saving Account in Pesos Nº 15605/01. The small contribution of many people is the secret of this Work whose only benefactor is God's people. |
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