The Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Mother of the True God for whom one lives, appeared on the hill of Tepeyac on four occasions, between December 9 and 12, 1531, to San Juan Diego. The Image, which was miraculously engraved on the ayate, is the bearer of a great heavenly message that inculturates the Gospel in the native peoples of the American continent.
Contemplating and studying the Sacred Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and each of the symbolic elements that compose it, make it an inexhaustible source of theological content that agrees wonderfully with biblical revelation.
The Codex of Guadalupe has remained as clear evidence that supports the missionary activity of the first Christian evangelizers and, in turn, explains the conversion to Christianity of many inhabitants of these lands. First of all, it allows us to discover the presence of the Mother of Christ among us and her tenderness that has accompanied us throughout our history as a Marian people.
May this feast day help us to strengthen our Guadalupan identity by thanking God and imitating the evangelical virtues of Mary of Nazareth. May we also, like St. Juan Diego, be ambassadors of the Lady of Heaven and her beautiful message among the new generations... between our children and grandchildren.
Fr. Claudio
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