Dear friends and benefactors,
At last—after much prayer and many supplications to Saint Joseph—the work has finally begun on the construction of the church and the small adjoining convent.
To keep you updated on the progress and financing of the project, we have asked a few technically and managerially skilled faithful to form a small committee. Their role will be to keep you regularly informed about the development of the construction site and related expenses.
This initiative stems from the fact that we do not always possess these specific skills ourselves, but above all, because we do not want to take time away from prayer and apostolic work.
This small volunteer committee is made up of experts in construction, finance, IT, and photography. We thank them sincerely for dedicating part of their time to this charitable work.
To help more friends and faithful stay informed about the progress of the construction, we hope to be able to publish updates in our web-site with several languages—especially those spoken in the countries our Sisters come from: Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, Polish…
We Sisters assure you of our constant prayers for you, dear friends and benefactors, who are making it possible for us to expand our convent to foster religious life and apostolic work:
Every Wednesday: the Holy Rosary for your intentions
One Holy Mass each month for your families
One Holy Mass each month for your departed loved ones
We pray that the Sacred Hearts of Jesus, Joseph, and Mary may always protect and bless your families.
With deep gratitude and esteem,
Sr. Maria Rita
The Mother General
Project Overview
Estimated total duration: approximately 2 years and 3 months
Project phases: Phase 1, Foundation and Structural, Phase 2, Finish
Estimated total cost of the works: approximately $3,815,000 (including VAT)
Purpose: to build a chapel suitable for current needs, a sacristy, new spaces for apostolic work, housing for the priests, twelve new rooms for the Sisters—who currently often share rooms two or three to a bunk bed—a central cloister, and a parking area.
Phases 1, Structural Foundation to Roof – Progress
Phase 1 (estimated total duration: 12 to 18 months) Estimated cost: approximately $2,035,980 (including VAT)
Total amount paid to date: approximately $356,500 (around 17.5% of Phase 1 costs), $43,070 in initial administrative and consulting expenses, plus $313,430 construction company adance (including VAT) for materials and foundation installation.
20 piles are approximately 31.5 inches (80 cm) in diameter, with lengths ranging between 59 and 72 feet (18 to 22 meters) drilled, reinforced with rebar and concrete poured
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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
of the
Sacred Heart of Jesus
