The Weeping Portrait of Sacred Heart of Jesus

Naquelim – Camurlim (Salcete, GOA) Wednesday 26 February, 2003 – Hour: 23:30

Prophecy of Jeremias
(Chapter 13 Verse 17)
But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep,
and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.

Report of the weeping portrait of Sacred Heart of Jesus made the headlines in the local Goan dailies
(HERALD, NAVHIND TIMES, GOMANTAK TIMES and other dailies) on Friday February 28,
2003. The event occurred in the house of Mascarenhas family at Naquelim – Camurlim, Salcete, Goa
on Wednesday February 26, 2003 at 23:30 hours.

Thousands of devotees queued up to have a glimpse of the portrait at Our Lady of Candelaria Church
at Ambora, Camurlim; where the portrait was kept for public veneration. People irrespective of creed
stood in the long queue which stretched to a kilometer away from the Church. The faithful were seen
fervently praying the Holy Rosary as they patiently waited for their turn.

The Archdiocese of Goa sought time to study the ‘phenomenon’ and appointed a special Committee
headed by Auxiliary Bishop Filipe Neri Ferrao in May 2003 to study the case and submit a proper
objective report to the Archbishop.

The theologians, scientists, medico-legal experts and sociologists appointed by the Archdiocese of Goa
in May 2003 to study claims of the Miracle turned down the possibility of a miracle in their report
which was published in the pastoral bulletin “RENOVAÇÃO” of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman
in their January 1 -15, 2004 issue which was circulated to the public from Thursday 8 th January, 2004.
The special Committee concluded saying,’ the nature and composition of the alleged tears clearly
show that they are not tears – and not tears of blood.’ The special Committee did not mention the
composition or nature of the substance that flowed from the eyes of the portrait. The Goan dailies
based on the statement in the “RENOVAÇÃO” bulletin reported in their news on Friday January 9,
2004.
From Thursday January 8, 2004 the day “RENOVAÇÃO” bulletin was circulated with the special
Committee report on the weeping portrait of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Goa experienced an
extraordinary ‘phenomenon’ in the weather patern in North and South Goa with strong winds
accompanied by fires all over Goa from 8 to 11 January, 2004 (Thursday to Sunday) which was
reported by the Goan dailies (HERALD, NAVHIND TIMES, GOMANTAK TIMES and other dailies)
from 9 to 12 January, 2004 resulting in heavy loses to property due to the burning fires.

Was this strange weather ‘phenomenon’ at this particular time in Goa a coincidence? Has the
Prophecy of Prophet Jeremias come true in Goa!

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 A Prayer
O Lord, I know that Thy Sacred Heart is in deep anguish, seeing the majority
of mankind on the steady road to the eternal abyss. Thou didst count on Thy
faithful Catholics, also in this once glorious Catholic City of Goa, but even
they left Thee for the most part. Thou didst want to ask Thy faithful to atone
with Thee for the sins of the world in union with Thy Sacrifice in the True
Mass and with Thy Mystical Passion in the Holy Eucharist. But the words of
scripture were renewed and Thou findest no one to console Thee. Thou art
actually constantly weeping and the depth of anguish of Thy Sacred Heart
will be more shown if Thy tears would even be bleeding, just as Thy sweats
turned to blood in Gethsemane. But whether weeping or bleeding, how
insensible and obstinate we are! Supposing of a miracle we are inclined to be
caught up by sensation and rush to see in multitude the extraordinary event,
just to forget everything tomorrow! Even if it was Thy miracle, the holding
of its truth serves to nothing without our amendment of life. So we understand that finally counts what
we have derived as a lesson from this phenomenon …! Yes, Lord, I thank Thee for having given me
this opportunity to meditate on the appeal of Thy Sacred Heart to us. May I be faithful to console and
atone to Thy Sacred Heart constantly, never leaving Thee in Thy permanent Gethsemane of today!
Prophecy of Pope Pius XII
“A day will come when the civilised world will deny its God, when the Church
will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become
God… in our churches Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where
God awaits them, like Magdalene weeping before the empty tomb, they will
ask, ‘where have they taken Him’ ?”
Pope Pius XII
Prayer of Pope Pius XII to The Blessed Virgin
O Mary, Mother of Mercy and Seat of Wisdom! Enlighten the minds enfolded in the darkness of
ignorance and sin that they may clearly recognise the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church to
be the only True Church of Jesus Christ, outside which neither Sanctity nor Salvation can be found.
The Priest
Priests are, ‘Men taken from among men who are ordained for the things of God
in the service of men.’
The priest is the mediator, the one here on earth in the person of Christ who
offers on behalf of Christ (on behalf of the Church) the sacrifice of Calvary. He
is the ALTER CHRISTUS.
Prayer for the Priest
Make him, O Lord, a priest according to Thy Heart: MEEK, HUMBLE,
ZEALOUS, so that all he does will be for Thine Honour and Glory. Mould him
into a man of prayer and labour, insensible to earthly things and sensible only to
Thy Love and to the Graces of the Holy Ghost.
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"Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the Bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice
which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse
had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the Bishop of Tusculum:
'Women should not dare to serve at the Altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We
too have forbidden this practice in the same words...." (Pope Benedict XIV, Encyclical Allatae Sunt,
July 26, 1755).