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Pope: Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!

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ANDREAS SOLARO /AFP/ East News

Kathleen N. Hattrup - published on 12/12/21

Let's start looking toward the 500th anniversary of her appearance, in 2031!

While the liturgy of the Church will celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe on Monday, given this December 12 is the 3rd Sunday of Advent, the Pope noted her feast day after he prayed the midday Angelus in St. Peter’s Square.

“Allow me to change to Spanish so I can warmly greet the communities of the entire Latin American continent and the Philippines – how many flags from Latin American countries – who have gathered here in Saint Peter’s Square to recite the Rosary in honour of the Virgin of Guadalupe and to consecrate themselves to her, congratulations!,” he said.

Noting how Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Empress of the whole American continent, the Holy Father said, “I congratulate you who, by doing this, have united yourselves to those who from Alaska to Patagonia are celebrating Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of the true God by whom we live, every 12 December.”

May the Virgin of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego teach us how to always walk together from the peripheries toward the centre in communion with the Successor of the Apostles, who are the Bishops, so as to bear good news to everyone. This experience must be repeated over and over again.

In this way, God, who is communion, will move us toward conversion and the renewal of the Church and of society, that we need so much in the Americas – the situation in many Latin American countries is very sad – as well as throughout the world.

I am happy that through acts of faith, and public witness such as what you are doing today, we begin preparations for the Jubilee of Guadalupe in 2031, and the Jubilee of the Redemption in 2033, we always have to keep looking forward, right? Everyone together – Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!

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