“Holy and Immaculate Virgin, to you, the
honor of our people and caring guardian of our city, we turn with confidence
and love. Awaken in us all a renewed desire for holiness: in our word shine
forth the splendor of truth, in our works resound the hymn of charity, in our
body and in our hearts dwell purity and chastity, in our life may the beauty of
the Gospel always be present.” - Pope Francis, 12/09/13, Basilica of Mary Major, Roma
Feast
of Our Lady of
Guadalupe
Patroness of the Americas
December
12
“Am I not here, I, who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow
and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are
you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need anything more? Let nothing else worry you,
disturb you.”
These were the words of Our Lady of
Guadalupe to St Juan Diego when she appeared to him in 1531. They are still
relevant today as Archbishop (now Cardinal) Burke reminds us in a homily
he gave at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe that he helped establish in La
Crosse Wisconsin
“…our late and most beloved Pope (Saint) John Paul II placed the mission of the Church in America, at the
beginning of the Third Christian Millennium, under
the protection of the Virgin of Guadalupe and
commended her to us as the Star to lead us to Christ and, in Christ, to the
conversion of our personal lives and the transformation of our
world.” ...
(Cardinal) Burke calls this apparition “the mystery
of the Visitation as it was experienced on our continent in 1531. The woman
clothed with the sun, bearing the Infant Savior, the Anointed, in her womb,
appeared to Saint Juan Diego, from December 9 to 12, 1531, in order that a
chapel be built in which she might manifest the all-generous and never-failing
merciful love of God for us, incarnate in her womb and alive for us in the
Church, above all, in the Sacrament of the
Real Presence, the Holy Eucharist.”
...
“…she has desired to remain
with us always, in order that the mystery of the Visitation might be
always new for us. She has miraculously left her living image on the tilma or
mantle of St Juan Diego. In the magnificent basilica built to her honor, in
which the tilma of St Juan Diego is enthroned, the Mother of God continues to
visit pilgrims and to announce to them the great mystery of God’s all-loving and
never-failing mercy.” ...
“… in 1531, she inspired her sons and daughters to
abandon the horror of human sacrifice and to respect the inviolable dignity of
every man, both the Native American and the European, so
now she inspires us to be tireless disciples of the Gospel of Life,
working to end the horror of procured abortion and so-called “mercy-killing,”
and to promote the respect for the dignity of every human life from the moment
of inception to the moment of natural death.”
Our Lady
of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas,
Star of the new evangelization
and Tireless Champion for life,
pray for
us!
MUST READ: Our Lady of Guadalupe
and the Conquest of Darkness Warren H Carroll
featuring
our Lady of Guadalupe as patroness of the Americas
and
asking for her intercession for the cause of religious
liberty.
"O Mary, bright dawn of the new world, Mother
of the living, to you do we entrust the cause of life: Look down, O Mother, upon
the vast numbers of babies not allowed to be born, of the poor whose lives are
made difficult, of men and women who are victims of brutal violence, of the
elderly and the sick killed by indifference or out of misguided mercy. Grant
that all who believe in your Son may proclaim the Gospel of life with honesty
and love to the people of our
time." -St John Paul
II
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