Mother of All the Inhabitants in the One America (2015)

Mother of All the Inhabitants in the One America

In January 1999 John Paul II promulgated the celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe as a Feast day of the Church in all America. On that occasion, the Holy Father also referred to Our Lady as the Star of the First and New Evangelization. As a Mexican present at that memorable moment, I was very happy to hear these words in the very Shrine of Guadalupe in Mexico City. But what caught my attention the most was that the Pope entrusted the whole continent to the care of the Morentia (dark-skin young woman) of Tepeyac. 

Hearing this prayer made by the Juan Pablo II himself caught me by surprise. Wasn’t it true that María de Guadalupe was the patroness of Mexico, just as each Latin American country has its own Marian devotion and its own experience with the mother of our Brother and Savior? How then can Our Lady of Guadalupe be the patroness of all the Americas and what does she say to us today? 

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