Daily Life
Schedule from Monday to Friday:
06:30: Waking up
07:00: Morning Prayers
07:30: Breakfast in the houses
08:00: Service in the house
09:00: Beginning of the manual labor until 12
12:00: Community meal in one of the Fazenda houses (each welcomed in turn); the children go to school at the neighboring village
14:00: Rosary with the community, adoration in front of the Blessed Sacrament, various work, visits, apostolates
18:30: Mass with integrated evening prayers
19:30: Dinner and evening spent in the household
On Saturdays the schedule is freer, so as to allow each one to rest and to go about one's personal work . There is no community meal.
On Sundays, the day beings one hour later and Mass is celebrated at the end of the morning.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
About the Fazenda in Natal
Here is an excerpt from Heart's Home about the fazenda.
Why the fazenda?
The idea of the fazenda came up when Rev. Thierry de Roucy encountered two friends of the Heart's Home in Salvador Da Bahia. Diego was in an orphangage, 12 years old, mentally and physically disabled, and who lived without dignity, apart in a dark room. The second one was an old man, Otacilio, who after an acident, was unable to move and take care of himself. His family had decided not to have him as a charge and let him live at a side of the house. He was totally abandoned.
After these two encounters, Rev. Thierry de Roucy wished to offer them a place of dignity and love, a family who would love them and take care of them. Little by little a whole village was built and the number of welcomed people increased as well as the number of volunteers.
The Spirit
Since the beginning, Rev. Thierry de Roucy has desired that the fazenda may be a welcoming place for our friends coming from the neighborhoods where the Heart's Home centers are located. A place where each one could revive to a new life, by the prayer life, the community life, the working and apostalic life.
Each welcomed person: missionary, children, teenager facing difficulties, single mother or family, is invited to share this experience with God, begging humbly each day, the mercy to live deep-rooted in Christ, the spirit of the Beatittudes. In concrete terms, we try in each house to create a family atmosphere, anchored on daily forgiveness and fraternal charity. Thus, one or two missionaries, sometimes a couple or family, open their door to one or several welcomed persons (children, the young, people with a handicap).
The educative dimension,, prevails at the fazenda, for we permanently live with the young and children who are entrusted to us.
Why the fazenda?
The idea of the fazenda came up when Rev. Thierry de Roucy encountered two friends of the Heart's Home in Salvador Da Bahia. Diego was in an orphangage, 12 years old, mentally and physically disabled, and who lived without dignity, apart in a dark room. The second one was an old man, Otacilio, who after an acident, was unable to move and take care of himself. His family had decided not to have him as a charge and let him live at a side of the house. He was totally abandoned.
After these two encounters, Rev. Thierry de Roucy wished to offer them a place of dignity and love, a family who would love them and take care of them. Little by little a whole village was built and the number of welcomed people increased as well as the number of volunteers.
The Spirit
Since the beginning, Rev. Thierry de Roucy has desired that the fazenda may be a welcoming place for our friends coming from the neighborhoods where the Heart's Home centers are located. A place where each one could revive to a new life, by the prayer life, the community life, the working and apostalic life.
Each welcomed person: missionary, children, teenager facing difficulties, single mother or family, is invited to share this experience with God, begging humbly each day, the mercy to live deep-rooted in Christ, the spirit of the Beatittudes. In concrete terms, we try in each house to create a family atmosphere, anchored on daily forgiveness and fraternal charity. Thus, one or two missionaries, sometimes a couple or family, open their door to one or several welcomed persons (children, the young, people with a handicap).
The educative dimension,
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