Our Lady of Guadalupe

On Sunday, December 14th at the 9:15 a.m. student-led Mass, the Hispanic Committee is leading a reenactment of the vision of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego. There will be a live presentation by our youth as well as music and dancing of Las Guarecitas and Danza Santa Maria.

The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is an important feast day, not only for Mexico, but for Catholics as a whole. During a time when many people were leaving the Catholic Church in Europe, Our Lady appeared to a humble boy in Mexico and started a massive conversion in the Americas.

By 1541, just ten years after her appearance to Juan Diego, a historian of the time wrote that nine million people in Mexico had converted to Catholicism! In a non-bloody way, the people of an entire country were converted. They left behind their old gods and discovered the truth of the Incarnation of Jesus through Mary. Child sacrifice was regularly practiced in the Aztec culture. Our Lady of Guadalupe freed an entire people from a culture that had relied on the sacrificing of thousands of innocents each year. That is why she is known as the Patroness of the Americas.

Please, join us on the 14th to learn more about this merciful and truly miraculous gift from God.