The moral act of the xix century and the innovation proposed by Father Ibiapina

Abstract

José Antônio de Maria Ibiapina assumed a mystical life in the face of the poverty of the country people, with human buildings, “Houses of Charity”, being able to transmit moral rules in the cultural context in the corners of the Northeast. Practically abandoned places, at the mercy of their own fate, where priests usually appeared to just carry out the release. Ibiapina's mission, on the contrary, brought together the poor in joint efforts and with Sisters and Brothers of charity carried out numerous constructions. The study in question aims to analyze the Moral Act of the 19th century and the innovative proposal of Father Ibiapina. The method is deductive and uses the logic of existence as an ontology of Missionary freedom. The methodology is qualitative bibliographic, exploratory with content analysis, it is not exhaustive, nor does it respond to a rigorous chronology. This research considers The Spiritual Instructions of Father Ibiapina as the main text to be worked on, which is placed in comparison with other writings from the Church's Tradition, considering that the miter of Olinda disallowed the missions and preferred pastoral visits of sacramentization. In the midst of so much adversity, Ibiapina, in the middle of the 19th century, revived with the country people the morality centered on Jesus Christ, through the Virgin Mary, the way in which the missionary personified the moral conduct of the northeastern people to this day.