Inner Peace Healing Center

Candles may be lighted with the prayer-wishes offered as one moves from the well towards the Haven for Meditation and Enrichment, the Inner Peace Healing Center. At the threshold, one is greeted by hymns of celestial calmness and the surreal sense actually being in the holy presence of the crucified Christ in His majestic larger-than-life wooden figure. A gaping wound by His heart is where one’s finger can feel the beating of His love, unifying His suffering with that of the personal pains that one prays for deliverance.

On the crucified Christ’s right is the life-size statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron of our island-country, whose miraculous intercessions continue to be prayed for, even as she urges us to continue praying the rosary and the Hail Mary, especially, for the salvation of humankind and peace throughout the world.  Her folded hands are warm and almost pulsating from the thousands of palms that have enclosed them in supplication and in tears.  No prayer is ever left un-answered.

From the main altar, one moves towards the life-size of Our Lady of Manaoag and the other images of Mama Mary and her various attributes, each one reflective of the distant places where her apparitions and miracles have been recorded and continue to be experienced. And so is it here, in Tierra de Maria where Mama Mary’s universal presence enfolds all who come, whether as a simple traveler or a returning pilgrim devotee.