On July 9, the Network-of-Light group of Joinville, with the participation of members of the Network-of-Light of the cities of São Bento do Sul, Balneário Camboriú and Florianópolis, from the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, participated in a volunteer group service for the coating of the Opy (Temple) of the Village Tekoá Tarumã, of the Indigenous people of the Guarani ethnic group, located in the town of Araquari, some 25 km from the city of Joinville.

The work began early in the morning, with a silent prayer. Then, about 40 people participated in the group service, including members and collaborators of the Network-of-Light, students, teachers and Indigenous of the village. They used clay to coat the House of Prayer.

During the group service, there was Guarani music and dance, with groups of people taking turns for rest. Around 3 p.m., the task was finalized and the group exchanged impressions and testimonies about what each one felt while working with clay.

“Through clay, we united our intentions in the building of a space that is sacred in the village. We spent moments that increased the flame of love, of simplicity, of donation and of peace that exists inside us”, said Valeria Seoane Standt, a collaborator of the Network-of-Light group.


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Indigenous villages
In the region of Araquari, there are ten Indigenous villages, where the group has been trying to help solve the main needs, with the donations they receive. Besides this Guarani village, the group has brought clothes to other three villages: Pindoty, Jabuticabeiras and Tarumã Mirim.

“Tekoá Tarumã is a strategic village in the general solution to the needs both of itself and of the other communities of this region. We worked to recover their values, traditions, religiousness and culture. We have been aiming at approaching them and expanding their relations with us”, said Luís Siqueira, the coordinator of the group.

The visits to the villages take place approximately every 15 days.
“We depend on financial resources, food, clothes and footwear, and labor force that come from the collaborators. Our position in the activity we have with the villages is one of interface between the needs of the villages and the donors, including labor force”, explained Luís.

Aboriginal Peoples
Mary, in Her Apparitions of April 12 and 13, 2016, indicated, among other guidelines, for us to act in the recovery of the European and Indigenous, so as to lead the European-descendants of the region to balance, by means of charity, of compassion and of service, the unfavorable condition imposed on the Aboriginal Peoples of the region, concerning their conditions of life, their culture, traditions and religiousness, due to the intervention of the European settlers in the geographic space that the Indigenous People used to occupy before the arrival of the white people.

“There is a general feeling of contentment of the participants in this current of goodness, at each movement we make in this direction, that the embryo of a tree is being gestated that can, perhaps, not only give many and good fruits, but also, with its trunk, branches and twigs in process of growth embrace and offer its shade to a growing number of brothers and sisters of the Aboriginal Peoples”, concluded Luís.