“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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