December 12, 2025
Our Lady of Guadalupe
After such a long time, we break our silence to introduce the Consoling Sisters’ new web site. Deo Gratias!
Providence, has deigned to make this presentation on our Lady’s Feast Day, Our Lady of Guadalupe! How glorious!
We would like to ask you to please Subscribe, click the red button above right away. By doing so you will update or add your email with the language you wish to use on the web site. It will make it easier for us to send you emails. Thank you very much.
We would like to bring to your attention the sisters’ NEW CHURCH PROJECT. The sisters continue to pray and ask for donations to keep this project moving.
Will you please help with these much needed funds? Perhaps you could send friends and relatives this link or forward the email we just sent you. This may also encourage some young ladies to visit.
Lastly, we invite you to see the latest LETTER TO FRIENDS AND BENEFACTORS NO. 2. with a nice presentation of this year’s happenings.
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We would like to thank Mother General, Sr. Maria Rita and Father Emanuel for their long patience and support while we have worked so long and slow to put together this multilingual website with the help of a professional and volunteers. We thank you as well, dedicated friends, benefactors, parents, and all for your patience and prayers.
Please browse this web site for news, events, and for your edification. We are still learning how to improve this multilingual site, and how to post news and events for you promptly. You are also invited to point out little problems you may see. To do so, send an email to friends@consolingsisters.org.
There is more content waiting on us to put on the site. We remain dedicated to the sisters and you, and appreciate all of your prayers and support for the sisters. Thank you very much. Deo Gratias, God is Good!
Yours in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Friends of the Consoling Sisters
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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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Deo Gratias!
The Consoling Sister
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Sacred Heart of Jesus
