DEPOIMENT OF A FATHER

"Before I got married, still single and without a girlfriend, many people called me of Spirits Catholic Preacher. One Sunday, in the year of 1986, I said to a greasted brother in Christ, Mr. Sebastião Pedro Leal, in the way to the Colonia Santa Marta, that I would be a father of one mental and physical deficient child. He thought it weird and said to me: How? Haven't you had even a girlfriend? Then I met Fabia Melo, a perfect woman to this mission. We had Juliana, Paula Prado, George and Larissa.
I afirm to all that I found the happiness, earning the award of God, being the father of Paula Prado. She taught me endless things, but among them, I may emphasize: to be humble, to trust in the googdness of God and in the Spiritual team, to have faith, to believe in life after the death of the body, to practice the pure, sincere and honest charity. She also taught me to see how life is wonderful, that we have to thank God every second and complain a bit less. Paula Prado was always smiling, even with all the severe deficiencies she had. She could have a high fever, she didn't get desperate, she smiled, and this made her to get better quickly of all sickness. She was in a constant fight in the world of the body's surviving.
I always talk to myself that I don't know if I am Paula or if she is me. I love Paula endlessly more than I love myself. Paula had one magnetism and where she was, she found out a mental and physical deficient child for us to help. She is an angel who cames to the Earth to show me the correct way to the Celestial Father. This way is to love God above all things and to love the other persons as we love ourselves. I thank so much to my eternal daughter. In this short period of my life you were in, present, you were and forever will be in my heart.
I invite you that read this simple lines, to help me to build in the Earth the "Recanto de Paz Paula Prado". One secure redention to all who wants to follow the way of goodness. I need a friendly, strong and generous hand of all who wants to practice the goodness, having as an exemple Jesus, our Master and Sublime Instructor. God protects and blesses you, always.

Joaquim Alves do Prado Filho,
President of Creche e Educandário Espírita “Casa do Caminho”

"You that see,
That speak,
That hear,
That walk,
You that many times,
Look at me with compassion,
With fear,
With repulsion,
With bitterness...
What irony! We are the same!!

Yes...
How many times I have seen you blind,
When it was needed to open your eyes to see.
How many times I have seen you mute,
When it was needed to talk.
How many times I have seen you stagnant,
When it was needed to walk.
What irony!! We are the same!
The same in our weakness,
The same in our deficiencies,
The same in our imperfections,
The same in our emotions,
And...above all,
We are the same in our wish and right,
We have to live."

Reverence to an angel called "Paula Prado".
Birth: December 20th of 1990 - Death: January, 10th of 1998 – 7 years and 21 days old.