Our Lady of Guadalupe and Preparing the Americas for Christ

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Feb 16, 2024

Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org

Joseph Julián Gonzáles & Monique González, Guadalupe and the Flower World Prophecy: How God Prepared the Americas for Conversion Before the Lady Appeared. Sophia Institute Press, 2023. 288pp. Paper: $18.95; Ebook: $9.99.

There has been a great deal of study of the Providential preparation for the Christian message in the Holy Land and in Europe, but not so much in other regions. Obviously, of course, the entire Old Testament is a kind of historical, cultural and spiritual chronicle of God’s preparation for the coming of the Messiah to His chosen people. Despite Christ’s widespread rejection by the Jews, there has been tremendous reflection on and analysis of the long period of preparation. This sacred history and subsequent reflections upon it by Christians around the world have led to a keen awareness of a long preparation by God so that, in the fullness of time, His personal disclosure in Christ might be accepted and lived by those who hear the Gospel.

Moreover, this same sort of Providential analysis has been very carefully and consistently applied to the decisive rise of Christianity in the Mediterranean region as a whole (where it has not necessarily persisted) and especially in Europe, both Western and Eastern. ….

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