Three things are worth separating before the first day. What devotional literature attests is a practice: the chaplet prayed nine days running, by people who also received the sacraments and did works of charity, and graces reported of them. What already exists in print is a different text — a novena and litany published by Vozes in 2023, which this page neither reproduces nor replaces. What is this site's own is everything else here: the nine-day plan, the pairing of the seven sorrows with the seven groups, and the meditations. It has no ecclesiastical approval, asks for none and prescribes nothing; no judgment by Church authority on the Campinas apparitions has been located.[28] [29]
How these nine days are arranged
Each day
The whole chaplet as it stands on the other page of this site: the opening prayer, seven groups of seven, the three final beads, the final prayer, and the two closing invocations. The text never changes from one day to the next.
What changes
Only the reading before it. Days one to seven take one of the seven sorrows of Mary; day eight stays with the two figures the closing invocations name; day nine gives thanks, whatever the answer to the intention has been.
On the conditions reported
The devotional source that transmits the nine-day practice describes those who received graces as having also received the sacraments and done works of charity. That is reported of them; it is not a condition imposed by this page, which imposes none.[28]
What this rests on: The nine-day frame is this site's, built around the seven sorrows because the chaplet falls into seven groups. None of the sources cited assigns a meditation to any group. [28]
Day 1 — The prophecy of Simeon
Meditation
No Templo, o justo Simeão profetiza que uma espada de dor traspassará a alma de Maria, revelando o sofrimento redentor que acompanhará a vida de seu Divino Filho.
Working translation: In the temple, the just Simeon prophesies that a sword of sorrow will pierce Mary's soul, revealing the redemptive suffering that will accompany the life of her divine Son.
Where it is in the Gospels
In the temple, Simeon blesses the parents and tells the mother that a sword will pierce her own soul (Luke 2:34–35). The presentation and the warning arrive in the same breath: the first sorrow is something foretold, and not yet suffered.
What this rests on: Two hands here, and they are marked apart: the meditation is the project editor's own composition, printed as it stands on the chaplet page; the Gospel locator beneath it is this page's. The chaplet's own sources assign no mystery to any group.
Day 2 — The flight into Egypt
Meditation
Sob a ameaça de Herodes, Maria enfrenta o desterro e as provações do deserto para salvar e proteger a vida do Menino Jesus recém-nascido.
Working translation: Under threat from Herod, Mary faces exile and the trials of the desert to save and protect the life of the newborn child Jesus.
Where it is in the Gospels
Warned in a dream, Joseph takes the child and his mother by night and leaves the country (Matthew 2:13–15). The sorrow here is not a scene but a condition: a family on the road, out of reach of home, for as long as the danger lasts.
What this rests on: Two hands here, and they are marked apart: the meditation is the project editor's own composition, printed as it stands on the chaplet page; the Gospel locator beneath it is this page's. The chaplet's own sources assign no mystery to any group.
Day 3 — The loss of the child Jesus in the temple
Meditation
Maria e José buscam em profunda aflição pelo Menino Jesus durante três dias por Jerusalém, até encontrá-Lo no Templo entre os doutores.
Working translation: Mary and Joseph search in deep distress for the child Jesus for three days through Jerusalem, until they find him in the temple among the teachers.
Where it is in the Gospels
Three days of searching in Jerusalem end among the teachers, with an answer his mother does not understand and keeps (Luke 2:41–50). This sorrow is absence, and it ends by his being found rather than by her being told why.
What this rests on: Two hands here, and they are marked apart: the meditation is the project editor's own composition, printed as it stands on the chaplet page; the Gospel locator beneath it is this page's. The chaplet's own sources assign no mystery to any group.
Day 4 — The meeting on the road to Calvary
Meditation
Ao carregar a pesada Cruz, Jesus cruza o Seu olhar com o de Sua Mãe, unindo Seus corações no sacrifício doloroso pela salvação dos homens.
Working translation: Carrying the heavy cross, Jesus meets the gaze of his Mother, uniting their hearts in the sorrowful sacrifice for the salvation of mankind.
Where it is in the Gospels
The traditional stations place mother and son face to face on the way to the cross. The Gospels place the women of Jerusalem on that road (Luke 23:27) and Mary at its end (John 19:25); the meeting itself is carried by the devotion rather than by the text, which is worth knowing while praying it.
What this rests on: Two hands here, and they are marked apart: the meditation is the project editor's own composition, printed as it stands on the chaplet page; the Gospel locator beneath it is this page's. The chaplet's own sources assign no mystery to any group.
Day 5 — The crucifixion and death
Meditation
De pé junto à Cruz, a Virgem Maria testemunha a agonia extrema e a entrega da vida de Seu Filho amado pela remissão dos nossos pecados.
Working translation: Standing beside the cross, the Virgin Mary witnesses the extreme agony and the giving up of the life of her beloved Son for the remission of our sins.
Where it is in the Gospels
His mother stands at the cross while he dies, and is given a son in the disciple standing beside her (John 19:25–27). This is the sorrow the chaplet's opening prayer names: the sorrowful road of Calvary, followed to the end of it.
What this rests on: Two hands here, and they are marked apart: the meditation is the project editor's own composition, printed as it stands on the chaplet page; the Gospel locator beneath it is this page's. The chaplet's own sources assign no mystery to any group.
Day 6 — Receiving the body taken down from the cross
Meditation
O corpo inerte e ferido do Salvador é acolhido no colo de Maria Santíssima, que o banha em silêncio com Suas santas lágrimas.
Working translation: The lifeless and wounded body of the Saviour is received into the lap of Mary most holy, who bathes it in silence with her holy tears.
Where it is in the Gospels
The body is taken down and laid in his mother's arms before the burial (John 19:38–40). Here the tears the chaplet offers are shed with nothing left to do, which is the state most of the people who pray it are praying from.
What this rests on: Two hands here, and they are marked apart: the meditation is the project editor's own composition, printed as it stands on the chaplet page; the Gospel locator beneath it is this page's. The chaplet's own sources assign no mystery to any group.
Day 7 — The burial
Meditation
O corpo de Jesus é depositado no sepulcro, e Nossa Senhora permanece em profunda e silenciosa dor, guardando acesa a esperança da Ressurreição.
Working translation: The body of Jesus is laid in the tomb, and Our Lady remains in deep and silent sorrow, keeping alight the hope of the Resurrection.
Where it is in the Gospels
They lay him in a new tomb in a garden, because the sabbath was near (John 19:41–42). The seventh sorrow is the one that has to be lived through with no event in it at all, and the chaplet says nothing new here either: the same invocation, three times, on the last three beads.
What this rests on: Two hands here, and they are marked apart: the meditation is the project editor's own composition, printed as it stands on the chaplet page; the Gospel locator beneath it is this page's. The chaplet's own sources assign no mystery to any group.
Day 8 — The two faces of the medal
The closing invocations address Jesus Manietado — Jesus Bound — and the Virgin whose tears they say brought down the infernal empire; those are the two faces of the medal, and the two apparitions the chronology records as reported, in November 1929 and in March and April 1930. Today the reading is of those two sentences themselves, said slowly, with the chronology's caution intact: the record establishes that they were reported and by whom, and nothing beyond that.
What this rests on: This site's arrangement. What is cited is only the medal's two faces and the wording of the invocations; the reading proposed for the day is not. [26] [7]
Day 9 — Thanksgiving
The ninth day asks for nothing new. Whatever has come of the intention, the chaplet ends as it always ends — the eternal crown asked for, the tears offered — and the thanks are for the nine days, not for a result.
What this rests on: Composed for this site. The chaplet's own sources assign no mystery to any group; what this day rests on is the Gospel passage named in the meditation.
What this page is not
Not an approved devotion
The acts this project has been able to date concern the printing of the chaplet and the medal — an imprimatur of 8 March 1932 and four approvals abroad in 1935, none of them a judgment on the apparitions. The one primary Church document located, the archdiocesan decree of 16 June 2023, creates a study commission on the visionary's possible odour of sanctity and pronounces on nothing else. An arrangement composed here in 2026 carries none of that and claims none of it.
Not the published novena
A novena and litany of this devotion exists in print, published by Vozes in 2023. It was not consulted for this page and this page does not reproduce it. Anyone who wants an established text rather than an arrangement should go to that one.
References
6 sources · 6 with an Internet Archive fallback. Sources span the spectrum of perspectives by design; contested claims are attributed to their authors.
- Decreto de Criação da Comissão de Estudos Ir. Amália de Jesus Flagelado · 🗄 archived 2026-08-10 Primary diocesan document: scanned PDF of the decree signed by Archbishop João Inácio Müller and chancellor Pe. Emerson de Almeida Amaral, dated 16 June 2023 (Chancery: Livro XXXII dos Atos de Governo, Prot. 106). The one primary Church document located for this dataset; its recitals also attest her birth data, the 1928 Institute founding and the 1952 Decretum Laudis.
- Nossa Senhora das Lágrimas: Origem, história, aparições e como rezar a Coroa · 🗄 archived 2026-08-24 Devotional account by a major Brazilian Catholic media community — sympathetic perspective; cites no documents. Used for what the devotional tradition itself transmits.
- No silêncio da clausura: videntes de aparições marianas no Brasil (1928-1937) · 🗄 archived 2026-09-08 Peer-reviewed academic article by Magno Francisco de Jesus Santos (UFRN), v. 19, n. 63, p. 1397–1417, Oct–Dec 2019 — the same historian as the 2025 RBHR study, here comparing Campinas with Cimbres (1936). Evidentially the most important source located after the 2023 decree: it is the only one consulted that DATES the episcopal act on the devotion (imprimatur of 8 March 1932 for the Chaplet and Medal of Tears) and that names the foreign approvals of 1935 individually, with granting authority, see and — for Sopron — a protocol number. It works from the 1929 Campinas and São Paulo press and from the depositions taken from the visionaries in the diocesan verification of the reports. It reproduces none of those acts, and states that the messages and the devotion have still not been approved by the Holy See. Cited by its landing page at the journal rather than by its DOI (10.7213/1981-416X.19.063.DS04, recorded here so the stable identifier is not lost): a DOI is a redirect, the Internet Archive captures the redirect and not the article, and this reference sat unarchivable for that reason while being the strongest source in the dataset. The landing page carries the article and can be, and now is, snapshotted.
- Reze a Coroa das Lágrimas · 🗄 archived 2026-02-10 Devotional site promoting the chaplet — sympathetic perspective, part of the derivative devotional chain. Cited for one thing only, and the one thing it is a good witness to: the wording the devotion's own publishers print today, bead by bead. It gives no edition, no date and no imprimatur for the text it prints, so it attests current usage and not the wording of the 1932–1935 editions, of which no copy was located. Consulted 18 August 2026.
- Novena da Coroa das Lágrimas · 🗄 archived 2026-04-10 Devotional novena site — sympathetic perspective, no cited documents. Cited as an attestation that the nine-day form of this chaplet circulates and of the terms in which it circulates: it states that graces were received by those who "rezaram durante nove dias seguidos o terço de Nossa Senhora das Lágrimas, receberam os Sacramentos e fizeram obras de caridade", and attributes to Christ a promise about the conversion of sinners. It assigns no meditations to the seven groups. Consulted 18 August 2026.
- Nossa Senhora das Lágrimas: novena e ladainha · 🗄 archived 2026-09-07 A printed novena and litany of this devotion by Elam de Almeida Pimentel (Vozes, 2023, 32 pp., ISBN 9786557139509), from a mainstream Catholic publisher. Cited for its existence and its bibliographic details, which is all that was established: the booklet itself was not consulted, and the record consulted is a bookseller's catalogue entry rather than the publisher's own page. It matters here because it means a novena of this devotion already has a published text, which the arrangement on this site is not and does not replace.