Maná do Céu: a daily devotional project
Originally published on jonatascastro.com. English edition translated and revised 01 Oct 2026. Historical examples are identified in the text.
Maná do Céu began as a simple idea: give daily devotional messages a home online, where more people could find and read them.
My father, Pastor Eli Vilela, had been sharing short messages for years through text messages and social networks. I wanted to turn that personal habit into a website that made the messages easier to discover and share.
My aunt, his sister, was already receiving the messages each day. She called them Maná—manna, the provision that sustained the people of Israel in the wilderness. That became the project's name.
A website and a podcast
When I wrote this post in 2016, the project published a new devotional on its website every day. We also created a podcast so people could listen on their phones.
The original project links were:
These are historical links from the launch; the archive does not establish whether the website or feed is still maintained.
The purpose was straightforward: make a short moment of reflection accessible wherever people were, through the channels they already used.
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” — Matthew 4:4