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New Church Project Progress – UPDATED

New Church Project Overview and Progress UPDATED  July 2026 Project Title New Church Building Project Mother House Expansion – Vigne, Italy $0 $0.5M $1.0M $1.5M $2.0M $2.5M $3.0M $3.5M US $3.96M €3.40M US $2.18M €1.87M US $1.64M €1.41M US $0 €0 ↻ Re-fill Project Launch Project Launch July 31, 2025 Total Goal Total Goal US […]

Church Project Progress Photos May through July, 2026

Thank you, generous benefactors, the New Church structure nears completion, paving the way for Phase II.  From May 2026 The structure is nearing completion:  The roof of the Church has been tiled, the bell tower has been finished (made with hand-carved stone), and workmen are erecting the walls. Deo Gratias! To July 2026 May 2026 […]

Blessing of the Cornerstone & Latest Church Project Slide & Drone show

We are pleased to announce, On Friday, May 1, Father Emanuel, surrounded by numerous priests, all the sisters from the Motherhouse and the Novitiate, and many laypeople, blessed the cornerstone of the new church, which will be dedicated to the Sacred Heart. Work is progressing rapidly, and we entrust the continuation of this project to […]

Church Project Progress Photos November, 2025, to February, 2026

Great Progress! Thanks to you, generous benefactors, the New Church project is progressing at full speed.  From November 2025 We have slide shows for each month below from preparing the slab early November, to the work in December, and then January.  By February 4th the basement has been almost completely built.  Deo Gratias! To February […]

The Raising of the Cross-Video

The New Church ProjectBlessing the Property and Raising the Cross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDtLnNSYE_8 The Consoling Sisters of the Sacred Heart are very grateful to our Lord to be able to initiate the construction of the new Church located in Vigne di Narni (Terni), Our Mother House. We ask the Lord to bless and protect this new Work. […]

New Church Rendering

The New Church Project.Father Emanuel’s Architect has produced this impressive rendering Postulant Wing and Priest House Inside the Court Yard Standing on the 2nd floor Looking across the court yard to the Priests House

 

What is a Stella Matutina Camp?

“Stella Matutina” — the Morning Star — is one of the oldest and richest Marian titles, one we use in the Litany of Loreto.

This phrase, drawn from Ecclesiasticus, is applied to Our Lady as the one who appears just before the dawn: visible while it is still dark, heralding a light greater than herself, and giving hope and direction to those still traveling in the night.

The spiritual image

  • She precedes, she does not replace. The morning star is not the sun. Mary’s whole significance, in this title, is that she points beyond herself to Christ, the “Sun of Justice” (Malachi 4:2). A camp is Marian in method, but ordered entirely to Christ as the end.

  • She shines in darkness. The morning star is seen before the light comes, when things are still obscure. Mary announced Christ’s coming before it was fully manifest — and by her ongoing role guiding souls through life to heaven above.

  • She gives hope to those still journeying. Sailors and travelers used the morning star to know dawn was near even while surrounded by night. If things may be dark now, the light is coming, and Mary, steadfast with love and hope, leads us to the light.

  • Smallness and humility. Unlike the sun, the morning star is faint — a small, quiet sign rather than an overwhelming one. Through Mary, children and youth are naturally drawn to littleness, hiddenness, and quiet fidelity to virtue in a spirit of love, grace, joy, and fraternal charity.

The camp’s spirit

  • Formation ordered to Christ through Mary — devotions, recreations, and daily life at camp through Mary point to the Sun she precedes.

  • Our Hope and joy living in the world — through our faith, hope and joy, we carry our examples into the world the way the morning star gives courage to travelers still in night.

  • Rising early — morning and night prayers, early Mass,  Angelus, rosary, a rhythm of life tuned to the natural day as a symbol of the spiritual one.

  • Quiet, humble witness — the star is small and precedes something greater, and so we teach humility and fidelity to virtue preparing the way through Our Lady to Our Lord.

  • Mary as model and guide — our model of virtue and formation of character cultivating purity; our guide to the light, to the Most Sacred Heart; to God Almighty, author of Heaven and Earth.  Deo Gratias!

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