The REAL Miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe, by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Dec 12, 2023

Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org

The liturgical prayers that the Church offers for our use today, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, speak of our longing for peace and for brotherhood among peoples.

In the Liturgy of the Hours, for example:

God of power and mercy, you blessed the Americas at Tepeyac with the presence of the Virgin Mary at Guadalupe. May her prayers help all men and women to accept each other as brothers and sisters. Through your justice present in our hearts may your peace reign in the world.

Or in the Collect from today’s Mass:

O God, Father of mercies, who placed your people under the singular protection of your Son’s most holy Mother, grant that all who invoke the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe, may seek with ever more lively faith the progress of peoples in the ways of justice and of peace.

Amen. But while we wholeheartedly join in those prayers, can we go a step further, and think about what we need to bring peace and justice and brotherhood to our world? Or, to approach the same question from a different direction, can we think about what makes this feast day unique? ….

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