REFLECTION:
How wonderful that on the day after we recognize the role of Mary
in the Divine Drama of salvation we honor a simple saint, St. Juan Diego!
We know him as the one to whom our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in 1531 to reveal
her desire for a chapel on the hill of Tepeyak in her honor.
St. Juan Diego asked the Lady to tell who she was and she responded
“I am the one who crushes the head of the serpent!”
When the Lady of Guadalupe appeared to
St. Juan Diego there was at that time great bloodshed in the land
as the Aztecs were offe­ring infants in sacrifice to the their pagan gods,
to the devil! The Virgin Mother, appeared as a “pregnant madonna”
to reveal the sacredness of the life in the womb of mothers.
She came to reveal her love for infants in the wombs of mothers!
The native Aztecs were also victims of much injustice at that time.
So our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to reveal to them that she was also their Mother.
She was inviting them as she invites us now in our own time of great needs as she says,
with her Son ­Jesus, “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.”

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