Our Lady first appeared to St. Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill on December 9. 1531. The Church celebrates the feasts of St. Juan Diego on December 9 and Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12. The Madonna appeared dressed in a gown fastened at the waist with a black belt, identical to that worn by the local women during pregnancy. The Church “contemplates Mary with joy in the purest image – that which she desires and hopes to be in her entirety” (SC, 103): tabernacle, womb, pyx.
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LET US PRAY:
Heavenly Father, we unite in prayer with Our Lady of Guadalupe for graces upon all priests, coordinators and parishes in the USA, Canada and beyond, that are expanding perpetual and eucharistic adoration.
Amen.
“On April 24, 2007, the same day abortion was legalized in Mexico, after a mass offered for unborn children in the Basilica in which is displayed the miraculous image, a very intense light appeared suddenly on the Tilma. At the level of the womb, the light appeared like a shiny halo, in the shape of an embryo. Experts have testified that it is not a reflection or something added, rather it comes from the Tilma and is in the exact location of a woman’s womb. Witnesses were able to take photographs and even to film the phenomenon that went on for a full hour.
“Father Luis Matos of the Beatitudes Community) writes: ‘The engineer Luis Girault who studied one of the pictures that was taken of the light, has confirmed the authenticity of the proof and was able to specify that the proof had not been modified, nor altered with the superposition of another picture for example. He has discovered that the image is not the result of a reflection, but literally comes from the inside of the image of Our Lady. The resulting light is very white, pure and intense, different from the glow coming from the flash of a camera. This light is surrounded by a halo and seems to be floating inside the abdomen of Our Lady. This halo has the shape and proportion of an embryo. If one is to examine this picture even more closely by turning it on a sagittal plane, it is then possible to distinguish inside the halo certain shadowy areas with the characteristics of a human embryo inside the maternal womb.'”
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