In 1531, when the Indigenous peoples of Mexico were suffering under the weight of violence, cultural erasure, and spiritual confusion – an apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin with a message of hope to the Mexica people.
Our Lady reveled herself to Juan Diego, resembling his dark skin and indigenous… Read more
Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe!
O God, Father of mercies, who placed your people under the singular protection of your Son’s most holy Mother, grant that all who invoke the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe, may seek with ever more lively faith the progress of peoples in the ways of justice and of peace.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us!SAINT OF THE DAY: Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us!
St. Juan Diego, a humble Aztec peasant, saw the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Hill of Tepeyac near present-day Mexico City on December 9, 1531, the feast of the Immaculate Conception at the time. After a request by the bishop to prove her identity, Our Lady asked Juan Diego to gather the… Read more
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