Posts Tagged ‘Our Lady of Guadalupe’

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Br. Jamie Nelson

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Luke 1:39-47

Today we celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary’s appearance near Mexico City in the year 1531 as Our Lady of Guadalupe.

As the story goes, an Indigenous Nahua farmer named Juan Diego was walking alone at dawn on his way to mass at the nearest church. As he passed a hill, he heard music and birdsong coming from the summit. When he went to the top of the hill to find out what was going on, he saw a beautiful lady surrounded by light.

The lady spoke to him in Nahuatl, his native language, and identified herself as the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the True God. She told Juan Diego to go to the bishop in Mexico City to ask for a church to be built on top of the hill.

So Juan Diego humbly and faithfully presented himself at the bishop’s office, but the bishop didn’t believe him. Juan Diego returned to the hill and reported his mission’s failure. Undaunted, the Lady told him to go back to the bishop the next day and to ask again. Read More