The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been on a nationwide tour, being venerated in 16 of our 22 Dioceses. The close of the nine week "Novena" was led by Archbishop Nichols at Westminster Cathedral. His Grace prayed the prayer of Pope John Paul II to the Virgin of Guadalupe which he offered at her basilica in Mexico on his first foreign trip as Pope:
O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church!, who from this place reveal your clemency and your pity to all those who ask for your protection, hear the prayer that we address to you with filial trust, and present it to your Son Jesus, our sole Redeemer.In our own culture, the request that Our Lady should protect our families and bless the upbringing of our children is particularly important.
Mother of Mercy, Teacher of hidden and silent sacrifice, to you, who come to meet us sinners, we dedicate on this day all our being and all our love. We also dedicate to you our life, our work, our joys, our infirmities and our sorrows. Grant peace, justice and prosperity to our peoples; for we entrust to your care all that we have and all that we are, our Lady and Mother. We wish to be entirely yours and to walk with you along the way of complete faithfulness to Jesus Christ in His Church; hold us always with your loving hand.
Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, we pray to you for all the Bishops, that they may lead the faithful along paths of intense Christian life, of love and humble service of God and souls. Contemplate this immense harvest, and intercede with the Lord that He may instill a hunger for holiness in the whole people of God, and grant abundant vocations of priests and religious, strong in the faith and zealous dispensers of God’s mysteries.
Grant to our homes the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings, with the same love with which you conceived in your womb the life of the Son of God. Blessed Virgin Mary, protect our families, so that they may always be united, and bless the upbringing of our children.
Our hope, look upon us with compassion, teach us to go continually to Jesus and, if we fall, help us to rise again, to return to Him, by means of the confession of our faults and sins in the Sacrament of Penance, which gives peace to the soul.
We beg you to grant us a great love for all the holy Sacraments, which are, as it were, the signs that your Son left us on earth.
Thus, Most Holy Mother, with the peace of God in our conscience, with our hearts free from evil and hatred, we will be able to bring to all true joy and true peace, which come to us from your son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns for ever and ever.
Amen.
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did you know that 6 million visited Teyepac and the basilica on Guadeloupe's birthday Dec 12th and the days before and after.
Did you know that the bow around her waste is a pregnancy bow of the Mexican Indians' culture.
For a real treat and to understand the hyperdulia these wonderful faithful people have for her go here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YmL146DCqY
Forget the TV stars, watch the mexicans
Under this title Our Blessed Mother is Patroness of the Philippines, though she is 'Principal Patroness' under the title of the Immaculate Conception. The Church in the Philippines was originally part of the Archdiocese of Mexico.
In Las Mañanitas a la Virgen de Guadalupe held each year in the basilica in Guadalupe on the feast, the singers and musicians along with the congregation face the image of the Vigin of Guadalupe, 'ad orientem', in a concnert/act of homage.
I meant to include a link in what I've just posted: http://bangortobobbio.blogspot.com/2010/12/celebration-in-basilica-of-virgin-of.html
Fr Sean the original Archbishop of Guadeloupe in Spain at the time of her first appearance named her The Empress of the Americas and the Philippines. I personally learnt a great deal about her as did JP2 from Fr Walter Weinrich a Maryknoll missionary who lived amongst the Native Mexicans in the Jungles and caves.
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