PRAYER

of the nine-month novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe

March 12 - Dec 12, 2024

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We are now on our twenty-ninth round of the Nine-Month-Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

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SHE IS YOUR MOTHER

EXPERIENCE HER MATERNAL LOVE

OUR HEARTS MUST BE IN UNION WITH HER IMMACULATE HEART

THE REMEDY REMAINS THE SAME

A CIVILIZATION OF LOVE.

His Eminence's Seventeenth Reflection on Nov. 12, 2024. Click on the video link here or read it here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

"At the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, we celebrate the mystery of God’s dwelling with us in His only-begotten Son, conceived in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which the Virgin proclaimed from the moment of her first apparition to Saint Juan Diego on December 9th of 1531. It is the same mystery of God’s immeasurable mercy and love toward us that Our Lady of Guadalupe announced in each of her apparitions over the three days which followed. It is the mystery which she never ceases to announce through her miraculous image which the hand of God Himself left for us on the mantle of Saint Juan Diego on December 12th, the day of her final apparition.

On December 12th, the Virgin provided to Bishop Juan de Zumárraga the sign of the truth of her apparitions, which he had requested from Saint Juan Diego: the miraculous flowering of roses in the middle of winter on a barren and stony hilltop. But, even more wonderfully, God provided the ultimate sign of that truth: He imprinted the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the mantle of Saint Juan Diego, so that, in a certain and true sense, she could continue to appear to His children who would come on pilgrimage to meet her and, in meeting her, to meet her Divine Son, above all, in the Sacraments of Penance and the Most Holy Eucharist.

Coming to the Shrine on pilgrimage, the pilgrim leaves familiar surroundings to climb the Pilgrim Way leading to the Shrine Church out of a desire for a personal encounter with Our Lady, who draws us into an even more personal encounter with her Divine Son, Jesus Christ, for the Virgin of Guadalupe brings us to meet her Divine Son in the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist. The pilgrim indeed sees Our Lord, and encounters Our Lord, while praying in the Shrine Church before the Blessed Sacrament reposed in the tabernacle, in the Sacrament of Penance and, most wonderfully of all, in the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist.

At the same time, the pilgrim should come prepared with that deep desire for that personal encounter, to know Christ more and, therefore, to desire to encounter Him worthily in the Sacraments. The more pilgrims meet Christ in the Sacraments, the more they will want to love Him and to serve Him by bringing His love to their brothers and sisters, especially those who are in most need. Coming on pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe, so that we may lead us to her Son, Our Lord, we understand that communion with Him in sacred worship finds its ultimate expression in the truth and love according to which we conduct our daily lives. True worship of God inspires and strengthens us to do the will of God in all things. Ultimately, the pilgrimage attains its end, when Christ has come to dwell in the heart of each pilgrim, in the pilgrim’s home, through the mystery of His living presence with us in the Church."

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Let us pray the nine-month novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe:

O Virgin Mother of God, we fly to your protection

and beg your intercession against the darkness and sin

which ever more envelop the world and menace the Church.

Your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ,

gave you to us

as our mother

as He died on the Cross for our salvation.

So too, in 1531, when darkness and sin beset us,

He sent you, as Our Lady of Guadalupe, on Tepeyac

to lead us to Him Who alone is our light and our salvation.

Through your apparitions on Tepeyac

and your abiding presence with us on the miraculous mantle of your messenger, Saint Juan Diego,

millions of souls converted to faith in your Divine Son.

Through this novena and our consecration to you,

we humbly implore your intercession for our daily conversion of life to Him

and the conversion of millions more who do not yet believe in Him.

In our homes and in our nation,

lead us to Him

Who alone wins the victory over sin and darkness in us and in the world.

Unite our hearts to your Immaculate Heart

so that they may find their true and lasting home in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Ever guide us along the pilgrimage of life to our eternal home with Him.

So may our hearts, one with yours,

always trust in God's promise of salvation,

in His never-failing mercy toward all

who turn to Him with a humble and contrite heart.

Through this novena and our consecration to you, O Virgin of Guadalupe,

lead all souls in America and throughout the world

to your Divine Son in Whose name we pray.

Amen.

March, 2024

+ Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke

Novena Prayer in Latin

Let us pray:

O my God,

in union with the Immaculate Heart of Mary

(if applicable, here kiss your scapular as sign of your consecration to Mary, which carries a partial indulgence),

I offer Thee the Precious Blood of Jesus from all the altars throughout the world,

joining with it the offering of my every thought, word, and action of this day.

O my Jesus,

I desire today to gain every indulgence and merit I can and I offer them, together with myself,
to Mary Immaculate, that she may best apply them in the interests of Thy Most Sacred Heart.

Precious Blood of Jesus, save us!

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!

+ Father R.Heilman, March, 2024

- Nov. 19 -

Day 253, novena nr. 29 of the nine-month-novena.

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Introduction Prayer

Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, you promised to show your compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting you, seek your help and call upon you in their necessities and afflictions. You promised to hear our supplications, to dry our tears, and to give us consolation and relief.

Memorare

Never has it been known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly to you, O Mary, ever-Virgin Mother of the true God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves before you. We fully trust that, standing beneath your shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor do we need to fear illness or misfortune, or any other sorrow.

Prayer

O Virgin of Guadalupe, you want to remain with us through your admirable Image, you who are our Mother, our health, and our life. Placing ourselves beneath your maternal gaze, and having recourse to you in all our necessities, we need do nothing more.

O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us. Amen.

Daily Prayer

Dearest Lady of Guadalupe,

fruitful Mother of holiness,

teach me your ways of gentleness and strength.

Hear my humble prayer offered with heartfelt confidence to beg this favor _______

(mention your intention here)

Concluding Prayers:

Our father x 1

Hail Mary x 1

Glory x 1

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Step-by-Step Rosary community will pray Cardinal Burkes Nine-Month-Novena and we will also pray the St. Michael chaplet, as an add-on. If you want to pray the Rosary after the novena - feel free to do so.

- Nov. 20 -

Day 254 a nine-month-novena.

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Introduction Prayer

Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, you promised to show your compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting you, seek your help and call upon you in their necessities and afflictions. You promised to hear our supplications, to dry our tears, and to give us consolation and relief.

Memorare

Never has it been known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly to you, O Mary, ever-Virgin Mother of the true God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves before you. We fully trust that, standing beneath your shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor do we need to fear illness or misfortune, or any other sorrow.

Prayer

O Virgin of Guadalupe, you want to remain with us through your admirable Image, you who are our Mother, our health, and our life. Placing ourselves beneath your maternal gaze, and having recourse to you in all our necessities, we need do nothing more.

O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us. Amen.

Daily Prayer

O Mary, conceived without sin,

I come to your throne of grace to share the fervent devotion of your faithful Mexican children who call to you under the glorious Aztec title of Guadalupe.

Obtain for me a lively faith to do your Son’s holy will always:

May His will be done on earth as it is in heaven _______

 (mention your intention here)

Concluding Prayers:

Our father x 1

Hail Mary x 1

Glory x 1

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Step-by-Step Rosary community will pray Cardinal Burkes Nine-Month-Novena and we will also pray the St. Michael chaplet, as an add-on. If you want to pray the Rosary after the novena - feel free to do so.

- Nov. 21 -

Day 255, a nine-month-novena.

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Introduction Prayer

Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, you promised to show your compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting you, seek your help and call upon you in their necessities and afflictions. You promised to hear our supplications, to dry our tears, and to give us consolation and relief.

Memorare

Never has it been known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly to you, O Mary, ever-Virgin Mother of the true God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves before you. We fully trust that, standing beneath your shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor do we need to fear illness or misfortune, or any other sorrow.

Prayer

O Virgin of Guadalupe, you want to remain with us through your admirable Image, you who are our Mother, our health, and our life. Placing ourselves beneath your maternal gaze, and having recourse to you in all our necessities, we need do nothing more.

O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us. Amen.

Daily Prayer

O Mary, whose Immaculate Heart was pierced by seven swords of grief, help me to walk valiantly amid the sharp thorns strewn across my pathway.

Obtain for me the strength to be a true imitator of you.

This I ask you, my dear Mother. __________

(mention your intention here)

Concluding Prayers:

Our father x 1

Hail Mary x 1

Glory x 1

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Step-by-Step Rosary community will pray Cardinal Burkes Nine-Month-Novena and we will also pray the St. Michael chaplet, as an add-on. If you want to pray the Rosary after the novena - feel free to do so.

- Nov. 22 -

Day 256, a nine-month-novena.

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Introduction Prayer

Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, you promised to show your compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting you, seek your help and call upon you in their necessities and afflictions. You promised to hear our supplications, to dry our tears, and to give us consolation and relief.

Memorare

Never has it been known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly to you, O Mary, ever-Virgin Mother of the true God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves before you. We fully trust that, standing beneath your shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor do we need to fear illness or misfortune, or any other sorrow.

Prayer

O Virgin of Guadalupe, you want to remain with us through your admirable Image, you who are our Mother, our health, and our life. Placing ourselves beneath your maternal gaze, and having recourse to you in all our necessities, we need do nothing more.

O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us. Amen.

Daily Prayer

Dearest Mother of Guadalupe,

I beg you for a fortified will to imitate your divine Son’s charity, to always seek the good of others in need. Grant me this, I humbly ask of you. ________

 (mention your intention here)

Concluding Prayers:

Our father x 1

Hail Mary x 1

Glory x 1

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Step-by-Step Rosary community will pray Cardinal Burkes Nine-Month-Novena and we will also pray the St. Michael chaplet, as an add-on. If you want to pray the Rosary after the novena - feel free to do so.

- Nov. 23 -

Day 257, a nine-month-novena.

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Introduction Prayer

Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, you promised to show your compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting you, seek your help and call upon you in their necessities and afflictions. You promised to hear our supplications, to dry our tears, and to give us consolation and relief.

Memorare

Never has it been known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly to you, O Mary, ever-Virgin Mother of the true God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves before you. We fully trust that, standing beneath your shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor do we need to fear illness or misfortune, or any other sorrow.

Prayer

O Virgin of Guadalupe, you want to remain with us through your admirable Image, you who are our Mother, our health, and our life. Placing ourselves beneath your maternal gaze, and having recourse to you in all our necessities, we need do nothing more.

O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us. Amen.

Daily Prayer

O most holy Mother,

I beg you to obtain for me pardon of all my sins,

abundant graces to serve your Son more faithfully from now on, and lastly, the grace to praise Him with you forever in heaven. _________

 (mention your intention here)

Concluding Prayers:

Our father x 1

Hail Mary x 1

Glory x 1

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Step-by-Step Rosary community will pray Cardinal Burkes Nine-Month-Novena and we will also pray the St. Michael chaplet, as an add-on. If you want to pray the Rosary after the novena - feel free to do so.

- Nov. 24 -

Day 258, a nine-month-novena.

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Introduction Prayer

Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, you promised to show your compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting you, seek your help and call upon you in their necessities and afflictions. You promised to hear our supplications, to dry our tears, and to give us consolation and relief.

Memorare

Never has it been known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly to you, O Mary, ever-Virgin Mother of the true God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves before you. We fully trust that, standing beneath your shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor do we need to fear illness or misfortune, or any other sorrow.

Prayer

O Virgin of Guadalupe, you want to remain with us through your admirable Image, you who are our Mother, our health, and our life. Placing ourselves beneath your maternal gaze, and having recourse to you in all our necessities, we need do nothing more.

O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us. Amen.

Daily Prayer

Mary, Mother of vocations,

multiply priestly vocations and fill the earth with religious houses which will be light and warmth for the world, safety in stormy nights.

Beg your Son to send us many priests and religious.

This we ask of you, O Mother. __________

 (mention your intention here)

Concluding Prayers:

Our father x 1

Hail Mary x 1

Glory x 1

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Step-by-Step Rosary community will pray Cardinal Burkes Nine-Month-Novena and we will also pray the St. Michael chaplet, as an add-on. If you want to pray the Rosary after the novena - feel free to do so.

- Nov. 25 -

Day 259, a nine-month-novena.

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Introduction Prayer

Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, you promised to show your compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting you, seek your help and call upon you in their necessities and afflictions. You promised to hear our supplications, to dry our tears, and to give us consolation and relief.

Memorare

Never has it been known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly to you, O Mary, ever-Virgin Mother of the true God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves before you. We fully trust that, standing beneath your shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor do we need to fear illness or misfortune, or any other sorrow.

Prayer

O Virgin of Guadalupe, you want to remain with us through your admirable Image, you who are our Mother, our health, and our life. Placing ourselves beneath your maternal gaze, and having recourse to you in all our necessities, we need do nothing more.

O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us. Amen.

Daily Prayer

O Lady of Guadalupe,

we beg you that parents live a holy life and educate their children in a Christian manner;

that children obey and follow the directions of their parents;

that all members of the family pray and worship together.

This we ask of you, O Mother. ____________

 (mention your intention here)

Concluding Prayers:

Our father x 1

Hail Mary x 1

Glory x 1

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Step-by-Step Rosary community will pray Cardinal Burkes Nine-Month-Novena and we will also pray the St. Michael chaplet, as an add-on. If you want to pray the Rosary after the novena - feel free to do so.

- Nov. 26 -

Day 260, a nine-month-novena.

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Introduction Prayer

Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, you promised to show your compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting you, seek your help and call upon you in their necessities and afflictions. You promised to hear our supplications, to dry our tears, and to give us consolation and relief.

Memorare

Never has it been known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly to you, O Mary, ever-Virgin Mother of the true God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves before you. We fully trust that, standing beneath your shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor do we need to fear illness or misfortune, or any other sorrow.

Prayer

O Virgin of Guadalupe, you want to remain with us through your admirable Image, you who are our Mother, our health, and our life. Placing ourselves beneath your maternal gaze, and having recourse to you in all our necessities, we need do nothing more.

O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us. Amen.

Daily Prayer

With my heart full of the most sincere veneration,

I prostrate myself before you, O Mother, to ask you to obtain for me the grace to fulfill the duties of my state in life with faithfulness and constancy.__________

 (mention your intention here)

Concluding Prayers:

Our father x 1

Hail Mary x 1

Glory x 1

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Step-by-Step Rosary community will pray Cardinal Burkes Nine-Month-Novena and we will also pray the St. Michael chaplet, as an add-on. If you want to pray the Rosary after the novena - feel free to do so.

- Nov. 27 -

Day 261, a nine-month-novena.

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Introduction Prayer

Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, you promised to show your compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting you, seek your help and call upon you in their necessities and afflictions. You promised to hear our supplications, to dry our tears, and to give us consolation and relief.

Memorare

Never has it been known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly to you, O Mary, ever-Virgin Mother of the true God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves before you. We fully trust that, standing beneath your shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor do we need to fear illness or misfortune, or any other sorrow.

Prayer

O Virgin of Guadalupe, you want to remain with us through your admirable Image, you who are our Mother, our health, and our life. Placing ourselves beneath your maternal gaze, and having recourse to you in all our necessities, we need do nothing more.

O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us. Amen.

Daily Prayer

O God,

You have been pleased to bestow upon us unceasing favors by having placed us under the special protection of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary.

Grant us, your humble servants,

who rejoice in honoring her today upon earth, the happiness of seeing her face to face in heaven. _________

 (mention your intention here)

Concluding Prayers:

Our father x 1

Hail Mary x 1

Glory x 1

+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Step-by-Step Rosary community will pray Cardinal Burkes Nine-Month-Novena and we will also pray the St. Michael chaplet, as an add-on. If you want to pray the Rosary after the novena - feel free to do so.

Here below are the Messages and Reflections from Cardinal Burke

Nine Month Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe

"Making the Nine-Month Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of Our Lady of Guadalupe, entrusting ourselves to her guidance and protection and confiding to her intercession our many intentions for the Church and for the world, we rejoice in the perfect union of her Immaculate Heart with the Most Sacred Heart of her Divine Son, Our Lord and Savior."

Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke sends us the encouraging April message :

"As our first month of the Nine-Month Novena concludes and our second month begins, some of us may be experiencing the worst temptations from Satan to surrender and stop praying the Novena Prayer every day.

In the battle for the truth, we must never give way to discouragement, which is always the first temptation of the devil. When we are tempted to be discouraged or to be defeated, let us recall the vision of the final victory of Christ’s Redemptive Incarnation, recounted in the Book of Revelation."

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His Eminence wrote initially the first lesson (by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

"The first lesson which Our Lady of Guadalupe teaches us to equip us for today’s grave crisis is the inseparable unity of truth and love. We cannot truly love another person while also disregarding or betraying the truth which should inform every relationship. The fundamental approach to the crisis of the family, of society, and of the Church is the knowledge of truth and the practice of it with love."

TheSecond Reflection

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

"During the first apparition to St. Juan Diego, Mary introduced herself as the Virgin Mother of God and our mother. These words are as comforting and inspiring today as they were nearly 500 years ago:

“… I am honored to be your compassionate mother, yours and that of all the people that live together in this land, and also of all the other various lineages of men; those who love me, those who cry to me, those who seek me, those who trust in me.”

As Catholics, we say that Mary is our Mother a great deal. We call her our Blessed Mother – enough, perhaps, that we might sometimes lose sight of what an extraordinary thing it is that we are saying. Mary, the ever-Virgin Mother of God, is our mother: take a moment today to reflect as deeply as you are able on the beautiful implications of this statement. Know in your heart that she is your mother. Know beyond doubt that her maternal care for you is real. "(Here is the full text)

The Third Reflection

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

"This month, let us contemplate the events of the second apparition of Our Lady to St. Juan Diego.

Though he did his best to carry out Mary’s request, Juan Diego was unable to convince Bishop Juan de Zumárraga of the authenticity of his claims. As Juan Diego returned to Tepeyac Hill, he must have been consumed by grief for this failure, and was perhaps even a little confused that Our Lady would not have intervened more directly.
Mary’s response is telling: rather than criticize Juan Diego, she encourages him to return to the Bishop. She encourages him to persevere.

Our failures do not make us useless before God, nor unlovable before our heavenly Mother. Indeed, God sanctifies us in our weakness, if only we turn to Him for the help of Divine Grace. Even our greatest weakness is the invitation to practice greater reliance on God.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, it is perseverance, not immediate perfection, that is the mark of Christian life on earth. We are born in Christ in Baptism to grow ever more fully in Him, to carry ever more faithfully and generously, with Him, the cross of pure and selfless love.

What failures are currently weighing on your soul?

Our Lady desires you to be reconciled with her Divine Son. Go to confession as soon as you are able and begin again on the pilgrim path upon which you set forth in Baptism and which will reach its destination in eternal life.

We are called to the same perseverance that St. Juan Diego displayed when he committed anew to carrying forward Our Lady’s mission. Let us ask Our Mother to intercede with God for us, that we may receive in abundance the grace of perseverance." (Here is the full text).

The Fourth Reflection dated April 23, 2024. The video link is here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

Let us continue to contemplate the importance of perseverance.

Though Saint Juan Diego failed to convince the Bishop that his claims were true, he did not let his failure
be the cause of despair. Instead, he dutifully followed the Virgin Mother of God’s instruction to return to Bishop Zumárraga.
The ability to recognize our failures with honesty and humility is, itself, a gift of grace, and indeed a sign of the healthy operation of our consciences. Indeed, the saints were keenly aware of their failures.

When we feel guilt, we should thank God that grace has spared us (at least in this moment) from the errors of a lax or dulled conscience, a condition which seems to afflict so many, in a particularly insidious way, in our times.
When we fail, do we let our pride intervene by supposing we can conquer sin?

Or do we turn to God for help? And when we ask for help, do we demand results immediately?
Or are we willing to persevere in God’s plan for our eternal salvation? Let us honestly reflect on these questions.

As St. Juan Diego learned, the fruits of Our Lady’s intercession are not always immediately apparent. But they are real, and they are powerful. Let us continue to ask Our Mother to obtain for us all the good and holy things we desire, according to God’s plan for us. (Here is the full text).

The Fifth Reflection dated May 12, 2024. The video link is here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

"As the second month of our Nine-Month Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe concludes, and as we, today, officially begin the third month, let us thank God and Our Lady for the grace of perseverance which that Our Lord, through the maternal mediation of Our Lady, has given to us so that we mightfight the good fight,finish the race, and keep the Faith (cf. 2 Tim. 4, 7).

Our Lady commissioned Saint Juan Diego to be her heroic messenger, just as she commissions us today to lead others to Christ by handing on to them the truths of the Faith and its beauty in the life of prayer and, above all, of divine worship. However, after Bishop Juan de Zumárraga’s initial skeptical reaction to Saint Juan Diego’s account of Our Lady’s desire, Saint Juan Diego considered himself to be unworthy of the mission that the Mother of God had entrusted into his hands. Saint Juan Diego was always docile and obedient, but, at the same time, he doubted that he could do all that God was asking of him.

When the work seemed particularly difficult, he thought of reasons why the mission should be entrusted to someone else, and he even suggested to Our Lady that he was not the right person for her mission. Yet as a child is comforted by a mother’s love, so too, Saint Juan Diego found comfort in Our Lady’s words:

I will reward the care, the work and the fatigue that you have put into this for me (Nican Mopohua, no. 92).

Our Lord Himself teaches us that God reveals His will to the “childlike” (Mt 11, 25), to those who, like Him, are “meek and humble of heart” (Mt 11, 29), to those who recognize that all that they are and have comes from the hand of God and who, therefore, place all their trust in Him. He assures us that, if doing His will demands much labor and is burdensome, He will “give [us] rest” (Mt 11, 28). Using an image from farming to describe our work with Him for the salvation of the world, he encourages to “take [His] yoke” (Mt 11, 29) upon our shoulders. He declares: “For my yoke is easy, and my burden light” (Mt 11, 30).

In our daily struggle to be faithful and generous co-workers with Christ in His saving work, let us call upon the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe and her heroic messenger, Saint Juan Diego, even as we seek to follow their example. Christ will never fail us. He will render efficacious for our salvation and the salvation of the world our every good thought, word, and deed. When we are tempted to give up in the battle, let us bear in mind Our Lady’s words to Saint Juan Diego for they are motherly words which will comfort and encourage us as well: “I will reward the care, the work and the fatigue that you have put into this for me.”

The Sixth Reflection dated May 28, 2024. The video link is here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

"Let us continue to reflect on the Third Apparition, and on the Bishop’s request that St.
Juan Diego present a sign.

Our Lord calls “blessed” those who have not seen and still believe. And yet, in His
mercy, Our Lord accords us an abundance of signs of His love, so that we may grow in
ever greater love for Him. The tilma upon which God miraculously imprinted the image of
Our Lady for us, her children, is one such sign, a truly remarkable sign of His love.

Let us take a moment to examine the signs God has given to each of us.

Have we allowed our souls to grow dulled and jaded by the myopia of materialism that
pervades our society? Or do we believe that God shows signs of His Love for us each
and every day?

Are we putting the Lord Our God to the test by demanding exact results according to our
own, limited understanding? Or do we work to appreciate God’s grace according to our
present station in life?

We should know and believe that, even if we are struggling to see the signs God has
shown to us, we can always turn to the wonder and love that are available to us here
and now in the miracle of the Sacraments through which God the Son Incarnate acts
directly to sanctify us, to bestow immeasurably and unceasingly upon us His grace and
life. He is offering His mercy right now in the sacramental encounter with Him in
Confession. He is offering His very life – His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity – in the Holy
Eucharist.

Our Lady leads us to love ever more and more Her Divine Son. So, I implore you: as we
continue in this novena of nine months, set aside more time to spend in adoration before
the Most Blessed Sacrament, reposed in the tabernacle or exposed for us in the
monstrance. The Sacred Host is the greatest sign of God’s love, which we have; may
our love for Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament grow livelier and stronger each and
every day"

Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke sent us a new message, simple and straight to the point :

SHE IS YOUR MOTHER

This is His Eminence's Seventh Reflection dated June 12, 2024. Click on the video link here or read it here

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

"Great are the difficulties we are called to face in the Church and in the world. When such difficulties seem overwhelming, prayer might appear to be one more difficulty, but that is a snare of Satan. The truth is that prayer, which is a union of our hearts with the glorious pierced Heart of Jesus, is the balm of all our burdens. The great test of our total dedication to the mission that we have taken up is to persevere for six more months as we pray for the conversion of the world. "

"Our Lady brought great comfort to Saint Juan Diego when he faced uncertainty. We, too, receive Our Lady’s assurance in those same encouraging words: What afflicted you is nothing; do not let it disturb you; do not fear; she is here; she is your mother; she protects you; she is the source of your joy; she is holding you. Our Lady’s words of comfort to Juan Diego are words that should comfort us as well whenever we experience the temptation to doubt the importance and immediacy of carrying out all that Our Lady desires and has asked of us."

This month, let us reflect on the Fourth Apparition of Our Lady to St. Juan Diego.

In an effort to attend to his gravely ill uncle, St. Juan Diego did not meet Our Lady’s request to return to Tepeyac Hill. He must have felt great shame for this, for he took a detour to avoid Our Lady as he made his way to bring the priest to his dying uncle. Of course, there is no outwitting Our Blessed Mother, who descended from Tepeyac to meet Juan Diego as he was taking this detour.

Let us take a moment to reflect on Our Lady’s words, perhaps the most famous from these apparitions. Instead of scolding Juan Diego, she consoles him. Our Lady knows, too, all that worries us; with her words to Saint Juan Diego, she is also speaking to us, nearly 500 years later, so that we may also take comfort in them.

Listen, put it into your heart, my youngest son, that what frightened you, what afflicted you is nothing; do not let it disturb your face, your heart; do not fear this sickness or any other sickness, nor any sharp or hurtful thing. Am I not here, I who have the honor to be your mother? Are you not in my shadow and under my protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need anything more?

My brothers and sisters in Christ, there is nothing else that we need.

Let us fly to the protection of our Heavenly Mother. Let us bring to her all that causes us to fear. And let
us be one in heart with her Immaculate Heart which is ever one with the will of God and through which, in all things, she brings us ever closer to Him Who alone is our salvation."

On July 12, His Eminence wrote us a new message :

"All of us can easily give way to doubt and fear before the challenge of living in Christ in our totally secularized culture. There is the tendency to doubt God’s grace and to give way to fear in responding to its “costly” demands. There is the temptation to think that we must devise some program, “some magic formula,” to transform the world. Yet it is Christ, alive for us in the Church, Who alone shows us the way. It is our humble and confident following of Christ which will transform us and our world. To help us follow Him, as He was dying upon the cross, Our Lord gave His Mother to us as our Mother.

By the mystery of the Divine Maternity, the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, assumed into glory, never ceases to beat with love for us, the children whom her Divine Son gave to her, also as He was dying upon the Cross. When Our Lord pronounced the words, “Woman, behold thy son” (Jn 19, 26) to His Mother and “Behold thy mother” (Jn 19, 27) to Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist, standing at the foot of the cross, He expressed an essential reality of the salvation He was winning for us: the full cooperation of His Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, in His saving work.

This is His Eminence's Ninth Reflection dated July 12, 2024. Click on the video link here or read it here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

"St. Juan Diego, faithful messenger of Our Lady though he was, did not undertand the fullness of Our Lady’s desires.Even as he carried the miraculous roses to the Bishop’s palace, he could never have imagined the even greater miracle that was soon to take place. Nor could he have known the extent to which his cooperation with Our Lady’s desires would glorify God, nor the extent to which this miracle would help transform his nation and the Church on the American continent, and far beyond.

St. Juan Diego knew none of this as he hurried to the Bishop. And yet, it was through his faith in God and his cooperation with Our Lady’s desires, God’s plan, that these countless blessings came to pass.
My brothers and sisters in Christ, let us emulate this faith in our own lives. We cannot know the full extent to which grace works through us — at least not on this side of eternity. And yet, God desires to work through us in ways that we cannot possibly imagine; He desires to bestows graces that we cannot measure. We only need to give our hearts to Him in doing His will in all things.
It is not for us to count the full cost or merit of our life’s work. In any case, this is an impossible task for us. It is our job to strive for holiness and to let Divine Providence order the rest.

By Mary’s intercession, may God order our hearts, one with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so that they rest always in His Divine Heart.

On July 24, His Eminence wrote us a second July message :

"Take Saint Juan Diego as your model in your every thought, word, and action, so that you may serve God in all things, both great and small. Commit yourselves to be, with the Mother of God, a messenger of God’s merciful love in your homes, in your offices or schools, and in any place in which you find yourselves. Be humble, recognizing that all that you are and have comes from God. Be confident that, if you respect God’s plan for you and for our world, you will be blessed, and you will bring a blessing to others.

As true children of God, with humility and confidence, like Saint Juan Diego, let us be one with the Virgin Mother of God in giving our hearts completely to the Lord. Calling upon the intercession of Saint Juan Diego, we pray for the humility to be always ready to do whatever God asks of us, and we pray for the trust that He will bring to a good conclusion our humble efforts to serve Him faithfully in even the smallest matters."

This is His Eminence's Tenth Reflection dated July 24, 2024. Click on the video link here or read it here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

"When Our Lady interceded to restore the health of Juan Bernardino, she also instructed him to convey the miracle of his healing to the Bishop. It was at this moment, too, that she asked she and her image on the tilma be known by the title, “Santa Maria de Guadalupe,” “Holy Mary of Guadalupe.”
True joy demands to be shared.

When weare moved by something true or good or beautiful, we feel the need to recommend it to others.
When we hear good news, the first thing we want to do is to share it. We even enjoy explaining, in detail, to our family and close friends the intricacies of the good activities we enjoy.
When we truly love someone, we want others to share in this love with us.

So, my brothers and sisters in Christ, let us take a moment to examine how we share our love for Our Lady with those around us. Holy Mother Church has preserved so many beautiful devotions through which we can
do just that. Let us invite others to pray the Rosary with us. Let us wear the scapular or the Miraculous Medal. Let us make it a point to observe Marian feasts with fitting celebration—perhaps inviting friends and family to Holy Mass or to a meal at our home.

Whatever you find most spiritually and practically appropriate in your own lives, do not be timid in your love for Our Lady, for by growing in love for her, you will grow ever closer to her Divine Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and you will bear ever greater witness to your love for Him Who alone is our salvation, thus drawing others to know Him and the salvation He offers us in His holy Church."

On August 12, His Eminence wrote : EXPERIENCE HER MATERNAL LOVE

"I have personally experienced her maternal love while gazing upon the Tilma. Through her maternal love, Our Lady of Guadalupe brings her children to her Divine Son, the only Savior of the world, in whom we discover the wonder of our daily life in Christ, for God indeed dwells with us.

Invoking God’s blessing upon you and your home, while confiding your intentions to the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego, I remain Yours in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and in the Purest Heart of Saint Joseph,"

His Eminence's Eleventh Reflection dated Aug. 12, 2024. Click on the video link here or read it here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

In the economy of salvation, the Blessed Virgin Mary, crowned at her Assumption as Queen of Heaven and Earth, is the Mediatrix of All Grace. She, the first and best disciple of her Divine Son, cooperates fully in His Redemptive work from the moment of His conception to the moment of His death on the cross, when her Immaculate Heart was mystically pierced at the piercing of His Sacred Heart by the Roman soldier’s spear. Always one in her glorious Immaculate Heart with His Most Sacred Heart, she continues, with maternal love, to be the channel of the immeasurable and unceasing graces that pour forth from His glorious pierced Heart into the hearts of all the faithful.

Our Lady’s work as Mediatrix became manifest with the establishment of a “sacred little house,” a place of pilgrimage, in Tepeyac in 1531, whence she might show the mercy of God to all of her children of America and of the world. As the great sign of her maternal desire to make us one with her Divine Son and, therefore, recipients of the immeasurable outpouring of God’s mercy, she left her image on the Tilma or mantle of Saint Juan Diego. To this day, the image, which has no human explanation as to its origin and whose fabric, cactus cloth, should have disintegrated some thirty to forty years after her apparitions, remains intact and radiates a miraculous maternal love.

Within eight years from the date of Our Lady’s apparitions at Guadalupe, nearly nine million Native Americans converted to the Catholic faith, giving up the diabolical practice of human sacrifice and embracing the Christian way of life with remarkable fervor and fidelity. What is more, the European explorers and settlers, and the Native Americans, who were on the verge of a most bloody conflict, united to form a new culture, the mestiza culture, which yet today looks to the Virgin of Guadalupe,La Morenita, as its source and inspiration.

I have personally experienced her maternal love while gazing upon the Tilma. Through her maternal love, Our Lady of Guadalupe brings her children to her Divine Son, the only Savior of the world, in whom we discover the wonder of our daily life in Christ, for God indeed dwells with us.

In four months, on December 12, I will be making the consecration to Our Lady at the Shrine of Our Lady Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin. I hope you can come to the Shrine to join me in this momentous event.

When you come to the Shrine, Our Lady of Guadalupe, with deepest maternal affection, manifests to us the great mystery of God’s love for us, inviting us to have complete confidence in His promises. Making our consecration to her, she draws us to encounter her Divine Son, the fulfillment of all of God the Father’s promises. She draws us especially to the Sacraments of Penance and of the Most Holy Eucharist, so that we may know directly in our lives the fulfillment of God’s promise of liberation from sin and death, His promise of eternal salvation.

Making our consecration at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be our response to her pure and perfect love by totally giving our hearts to her Immaculate Heart, through whom we are more perfectly united to the glorious pierced Heart of her Divine Son, Jesus the Savior.

On August 27, His Eminence wrote

"In what context does the Virgin of Guadalupe propose to teach us the mystery of God’s ever faithful and all-merciful love? It is in the context of our entrance into the House of God to pray and to offer to Him the worship which He Himself inspires in us and strengthens us to carry out, under the maternal gaze of the Mother of God, especially looking upon us from the Tilma, for she draws us to her Divine Son alive for us in the Church, above all, in the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist. “I will show Him,” Our Lady of Guadalupe tells us by her apparitions, and “I will give Him to all people in all my personal love.”

Being Our Lady’s messengers, bringing people to her so that she can “show Him” and “give Him to all people,” also means offering ourselves as channels of her maternal love, just as she is a channel of Divine Grace. Her image, which God miraculously left for us on the mantle, the Tilma of Saint Juan Diego, makes visible the truth of the Virgin Mother’s unique cooperation in Christ’s work of Redemption.

So, too, as her servants, as her messengers, we must make visible the truth of the Virgin Mother’s work by, in a sense, wearing a spiritual Tilma for all the world to hear through our words and see in our actions."

His Eminence's Twelfth Reflection dated Aug. 27, 2024. Click on the video link here or read it here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

How does Our Lady propose that we know and serve her Divine Son Who alone is our salvation?

Having announced to Saint Juan Diego the truth about herself and her relationship with God, and the truth about her Divine Son, Savior of the World, she asks that a chapel be built in which she will draw the faithful to encounter Jesus Christ. She does not propose that he start a movement or some other initiative for the carrying out of Our Lady’s mission but rather that he ask Bishop Juan de Zumárraga to build a chapel:

“Know, know for sure my dearest and youngest son, that I am truly the ever perfect Holy Virgin Mary, who has the honor to be the Mother of the one true God for whom we all live, the Creator of people, the Lord of all around us and of what is close to us, the Lord of Heaven, the Lord of Earth.”(Nican Mopohua, no. 26)

In what context does the Virgin of Guadalupe propose to teach us the mystery of God’s ever faithful and all-merciful love? It is in the context of our entrance into the House of God to pray and to offer to Him the worship which He Himself inspires in us and strengthens us to carry out, under the maternal gaze of the Mother of God, especially looking upon us from the Tilma, for she draws us to her Divine Son alive for us in the Church, above all, in the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist.

“I will show Him,” Our Lady of Guadalupe tells us by her apparitions, and “I will give Him to all people in all my personal love.”

Being Our Lady’s messengers, bringing people to her so that she can “show Him” and “give Him to all people,” also means offering ourselves as channels of her maternal love, just as she is a channel of Divine Grace. Her image, which God miraculously left for us on the mantle, the Tilma of Saint Juan Diego, makes visible the truth of the Virgin Mother’s unique cooperation in Christ’s work of Redemption.

So, too, as her servants, as her messengers, we must make visible the truth of the Virgin Mother’s work by, in a sense, wearing a spiritual Tilma for all the world to hear through our words and see in our actions.

In this, we offer all people her invitation to make a pilgrimage to her so that she can bring them to her Divine Son, since the ultimate goal of every pilgrimage to a shrine or holy place is to unite our hearts with His Most Sacred Heart, especially through the Eucharistic Sacrifice.Our Lady makes clear that the mercy of God, incarnate in her Divine Son, is experienced by us in a pre-eminent way in the House of God, through prayer and divine worship:

“Because truly I am honored to be your compassionate mother, yours and that of all the people that live together in this land, and also of all the other various lineages of men; those who love me, those who cry to me, those who seek me, those who trust in me.

Because there [at my sacred house] truly will I hear their cry, their sadness, in order to remedy, to cure all their various troubles, their miseries, their pains.” Nican Mopohua, no. 29-32

Accordingly, I am inviting you to make a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on December 12, for the Holy Mass at 12:15 pm Central Time. At that time, under the mosaic of Our Lady of Guadalupe, created by the artists at the Vatican Mosaic Studio to be a likeness of the image of Our Lady on the Tilma, I will lead the congregation in the act of consecration to Our Lady of Guadalupe by reciting the Official Prayer of this Nine-Month Novena. Come to the Shrine to make the consecration with me.

On August 27, His Eminence wrote

"In what context does the Virgin of Guadalupe propose to teach us the mystery of God’s ever faithful and all-merciful love? It is in the context of our entrance into the House of God to pray and to offer to Him the worship which He Himself inspires in us and strengthens us to carry out, under the maternal gaze of the Mother of God, especially looking upon us from the Tilma, for she draws us to her Divine Son alive for us in the Church, above all, in the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist. “I will show Him,” Our Lady of Guadalupe tells us by her apparitions, and “I will give Him to all people in all my personal love.”

Being Our Lady’s messengers, bringing people to her so that she can “show Him” and “give Him to all people,” also means offering ourselves as channels of her maternal love, just as she is a channel of Divine Grace. Her image, which God miraculously left for us on the mantle, the Tilma of Saint Juan Diego, makes visible the truth of the Virgin Mother’s unique cooperation in Christ’s work of Redemption.

So, too, as her servants, as her messengers, we must make visible the truth of the Virgin Mother’s work by, in a sense, wearing a spiritual Tilma for all the world to hear through our words and see in our actions."

His Eminence's Twelfth Reflection dated Aug. 27, 2024. Click on the video link here or read it here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

How does Our Lady propose that we know and serve her Divine Son Who alone is our salvation?

Having announced to Saint Juan Diego the truth about herself and her relationship with God, and the truth about her Divine Son, Savior of the World, she asks that a chapel be built in which she will draw the faithful to encounter Jesus Christ. She does not propose that he start a movement or some other initiative for the carrying out of Our Lady’s mission but rather that he ask Bishop Juan de Zumárraga to build a chapel:

“Know, know for sure my dearest and youngest son, that I am truly the ever perfect Holy Virgin Mary, who has the honor to be the Mother of the one true God for whom we all live, the Creator of people, the Lord of all around us and of what is close to us, the Lord of Heaven, the Lord of Earth.”(Nican Mopohua, no. 26)

In what context does the Virgin of Guadalupe propose to teach us the mystery of God’s ever faithful and all-merciful love? It is in the context of our entrance into the House of God to pray and to offer to Him the worship which He Himself inspires in us and strengthens us to carry out, under the maternal gaze of the Mother of God, especially looking upon us from the Tilma, for she draws us to her Divine Son alive for us in the Church, above all, in the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist.

“I will show Him,” Our Lady of Guadalupe tells us by her apparitions, and “I will give Him to all people in all my personal love.”

Being Our Lady’s messengers, bringing people to her so that she can “show Him” and “give Him to all people,” also means offering ourselves as channels of her maternal love, just as she is a channel of Divine Grace. Her image, which God miraculously left for us on the mantle, the Tilma of Saint Juan Diego, makes visible the truth of the Virgin Mother’s unique cooperation in Christ’s work of Redemption.

So, too, as her servants, as her messengers, we must make visible the truth of the Virgin Mother’s work by, in a sense, wearing a spiritual Tilma for all the world to hear through our words and see in our actions.

In this, we offer all people her invitation to make a pilgrimage to her so that she can bring them to her Divine Son, since the ultimate goal of every pilgrimage to a shrine or holy place is to unite our hearts with His Most Sacred Heart, especially through the Eucharistic Sacrifice.Our Lady makes clear that the mercy of God, incarnate in her Divine Son, is experienced by us in a pre-eminent way in the House of God, through prayer and divine worship:

“Because truly I am honored to be your compassionate mother, yours and that of all the people that live together in this land, and also of all the other various lineages of men; those who love me, those who cry to me, those who seek me, those who trust in me.

Because there [at my sacred house] truly will I hear their cry, their sadness, in order to remedy, to cure all their various troubles, their miseries, their pains.” Nican Mopohua, no. 29-32

Accordingly, I am inviting you to make a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on December 12, for the Holy Mass at 12:15 pm Central Time. At that time, under the mosaic of Our Lady of Guadalupe, created by the artists at the Vatican Mosaic Studio to be a likeness of the image of Our Lady on the Tilma, I will lead the congregation in the act of consecration to Our Lady of Guadalupe by reciting the Official Prayer of this Nine-Month Novena. Come to the Shrine to make the consecration with me.

On September 12, His Eminence wrote :

OUR HEARTS MUST BE IN UNION WITH HER IMMACULATE HEART

"If we are to be messengers of Our Lady, our hearts must be in union with her Immaculate Heart. Let us, therefore, build a “sacred little house” to Our Lady of Guadalupe in our hearts, setting a spiritual Tilma in a place wherefrom, under the interior contemplation of her maternal gaze, she can prepare our hearts to make a pilgrimage to a holy place, where we can truly encounter her Divine Son, Jesus Christ, come to know Him more fully and to love Him more ardently, especially in the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist.

I invite you on such a pilgrimage. At the Church of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on December 12, during the Holy Mass at 12:15 pm Central Time, I will make the Official Act of Consecration to Our Lady of Guadalupe."

His Eminence's Thirteenth Reflection dated Sept. 12, 2024. Click on the video link here or read it here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

How does Our Lady propose that we know and serve her Divine Son Who alone is our salvation?

When Our Lady provided Saint Juan Diego with the sign which the Bishop requested, she insisted on the importance of the chapel as the locus of the manifestation of God’s all-merciful love:

“My youngest son, these different kinds of flowers are the proof, the sign that you will take to the Bishop; you will tell him from me that in them he is to see my wish and that therefore he is to carry out my wish, my will; and you, you who are my messenger, in you I place my absolute trust. And I strictly order you that only alone, in the Bishop’s presence, will you open your tilma and show him what you are carrying; and you will tell him everything exactly, you will tell him that I ordered you to climb to the top of the little hill to cut the flowers, and everything you saw and admired; so that you can convince the Governing Priest, so that he will then do what is entrusted to him, to build my little sacred house that I have asked for.”(Nican Mopohua, no. 137-142)

In fact, from the time of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the enshrinement of her miraculous image in the successions of chapels and churches built near Tepeyac Hill, the devotion to Our Lady has favored a profound and rich life of prayer and divine worship.

In the end, everything regarding the apparitions is directed to the establishment of the chapel as a place of pilgrimage, of a privileged encounter with the Lord through the mediation of His Virgin Mother.

And then he opened his white tilma, in the follow of which were the flowers. And all the different flowers, like those from Castille, fell to the floor. Then and there his tilma became the sign, there suddenly appeared the Beloved Image of the Perfect Virgin Saint Mary, Mother of God, in the form and figure in which it is now, where it is preserved her beloved little house, in her sacred little house in Tepeyac, which is called Guadalupe… And the Bishop got up, and untied Juan Diego’s garment, his tilma, from his neck where it was tied, on which appeared the venerable sign of the Heavenly Queen. And then he took it and placed it in his private chapel. And Juan Diego still stayed for the day in the Bishop’s house, who still kept him there. And on the next day he [the Bishop] said to him: “Come, let’s go so you can show me where it is that the venerable will of the Queen of Heaven wants Her chapel built.”Nican Mopohua, no. 137-142

If we are to be messengers of Our Lady, our hearts must be in union with her Immaculate Heart. Let us, therefore, build a “sacred little house” to Our Lady of Guadalupe in our hearts, setting a spiritual Tilma in a place wherefrom, under the interior contemplation of her maternal gaze, she can prepare our hearts to make a pilgrimage to a holy place, where we can truly encounter her Divine Son, Jesus Christ, come to know Him more fully and to love Him more ardently, especially in the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist.

On September 25, His Eminence wrote :

THE REMEDY REMAINS THE SAME

"Although the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe occurred nearly 500 years ago, Our Lord still desires that we continue coming to Our Lady of Guadalupe because He desires to speak to us through her as Mother of Divine Grace.

The situation today is no less urgent than it was at the time of the first apparitions. Our culture is plummeting at an alarming rate into self-annihilation. The situation in our own country is very frightening as the attacks on human life and on the family grow ever more violent and our society is unstable because we have lost our moorings. In other parts of the world, there are terrible conflicts, as there were during the time of Our Lady’s apparitions. We realize that Our Lady’s message is as critical today as it was then.

At the same time, Our Lady’s remedy for the crisis of that time remains our own remedy today.

Our Lady is calling us to be her messengers today, just as she called Saint Juan Diego to be her heroic messenger 500 years ago.

Your example of living a holy life by supernatural grace will naturally lead others to Our Lady,
who will draw them to the only source of their salvation in Jesus Christ, truly present in their midst."

His Eminence's Fourteenth Reflection dated Sept. 25, 2024. Click on the video link here or read it here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

Although the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe occurred nearly 500 years ago, Our Lord still desires that we continue coming to Our Lady of Guadalupe because He desires to speak to us through her as Mother of Divine Grace.

The situation today is no less urgent than it was at the time of the first apparitions. Our culture is plummeting at an alarming rate into self-annihilation. The situation in our own country is very frightening as the attacks on human life and on the family grow ever more violent and our society is unstable because we have lost our moorings. In other parts of the world, there are terrible conflicts, as there were during the time of Our Lady’s apparitions. We realize that Our Lady’s message is as critical today as it was then.

At the same time, Our Lady’s remedy for the crisis of that time remains our own remedy today. She instructed that a “sacred little house”—that is, a chapel—be built and, knowing that it would be accomplished through Divine Providence, she prepared for her miraculous image on the Tilma of Saint Juan Diego to be set in a place of prominence inside the chapel so that she might draw all who gaze upon that image to her Divine Son. The description of the hanging of the Tilma in her chapel deserves to be recounted.

And after some time, the Reverend Bishop moved the beloved Image of the Heavenly Maiden to the main church. He [the Bishop] took it from his palace, from his chapel where it had been, so that everyone could see and admire Her precious Image. And absolutely everyone, the entire city, without exception, trembled when they went to behold, to admire Her precious Image. They came to acknowledge it as something divine. They came to offer Her their prayers. They marveled at the miraculous way it had appeared since absolutely no one on Earth had painted Her beloved Image.(Nican Mopohua, no. 212-218)

Our Lady is calling us to be her messengers today, just as she called Saint Juan Diego to be her heroic messenger 500 years ago. And just as the people were awestruck then, so too must people today tremble when they behold and admire her precious image. People must come to offer her their prayers. People need to marvel at the miraculous way her image appeared on the Tilma! We can help them do so through the union of our hearts with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Build a sacred little house in your heart. Contemplate her maternal gaze. Let her summon you on pilgrimage to a holy place where you will truly encounter her Divine Son in the Sacraments of Penance and Eucharist. Your example of living a holy life by supernatural grace will naturally lead others to Our Lady, who will draw them to the only source of their salvation in Jesus Christ, truly present in their midst.

On Oktber 12, His Eminence wrote :

"In what context does the Virgin of Guadalupe propose to teach us the mystery of God’s ever faithful and all-merciful love? It is in the context of our entrance into the House of God to pray and to offer to Him the worship which He Himself inspires in us and strengthens us to carry out.

Mary, our Mother, preserved from all stain of original sin, understands better than any of us the wiles of Satan and the profound harm and eternal death itself, which comes to us through sin. She witnessed the effects of the sin of our First Parents and of our actual sins in the Passion and Death of her Divine Son. She, therefore, stands ever ready to point out to us Satan’s allurements and deceptions, and to sustain us in times of great trial and temptation by leading us to her Son alive for us in the Church, especially through the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist.

By drawing close to the Immaculate Heart of Our Blessed Mother, under the title of Our Lady of Guadalupe, we come to understand ever better the effects of sin in our lives and upon our world; we come to understand our need to go to her Son for the grace of conversion of life and the transformation of our world. In her maternal love, she leads us in the way of the humility which Our Lord teaches us in the Gospel, so that we give our hearts totally to Him, with confident trust in His never failing and all-merciful love. (Cf. Lc 9, 48)".

His Eminence's Fifteenth Reflection dated Oct 12, 2024. Click on the video link here or read it here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

In what context does the Virgin of Guadalupe propose to teach us the mystery of God’s ever faithful and all-merciful love? It is in the context of our entrance into the House of God to pray and to offer to Him the worship which He Himself inspires in us and strengthens us to carry out. “I want very much that they build my sacred little house here,” Our Lady instructed the Church in Mexico through her messenger Saint Juan Diego. Her intention for the church is to “show” her Divine Son, Jesus Christ, “exalt Him upon making Him manifest,” and “give Him to all people” in her maternal love through the Sacraments of the Church and in the Sacred Liturgy (Cf.Nican Mopohua, no. 26-28).

In the Sacred Liturgy, Christ Himself acts in our midst for the glory of God and for our eternal salvation. In fact, it is only in the House of God that our greatest hunger and thirst are satisfied. In His dwelling with us through the Church, we know God in the forgiveness of our sins through the Sacrament of Penance and in the incomparable gift of the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ, the fruit of the Eucharistic Sacrifice given as Heavenly Bread to us in Holy Communion. This is because Our Lady understands that the Church’s doctrine and discipline are the irreplaceable conditions for the encounter with Christ and the daily conversion of life to Christ by following Him on the only way which leads to eternal life, the way of the Cross (Cf. Mt 16, 24).

Mary, our Mother, preserved from all stain of original sin, understands better than any of us the wiles of Satan and the profound harm and eternal death itself, which comes to us through sin. She witnessed the effects of the sin of our First Parents and of our actual sins in the Passion and Death of her Divine Son. She, therefore, stands ever ready to point out to us Satan’s allurements and deceptions, and to sustain us in times of great trial and temptation by leading us to her Son alive for us in the Church, especially through the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist.

By drawing close to the Immaculate Heart of Our Blessed Mother, under the title of Our Lady of Guadalupe, we come to understand ever better the effects of sin in our lives and upon our world; we come to understand our need to go to her Son for the grace of conversion of life and the transformation of our world. In her maternal love, she leads us in the way of the humility which Our Lord teaches us in the Gospel, so that we give our hearts totally to Him, with confident trust in His never failing and all-merciful love. (Cf. Lc 9, 48).

On October 25, His Eminence wrote :

"A CIVILIZATION OF LOVE."

His Eminence's Sixteenth Reflection on Oct 25, 2024. Click on the video link here or read it here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

"Our Lady of Guadalupe’s direction in 1531 was to build a “sacred little house,” a chapel, a church,” in order to draw people into a profoundly personal encounter with her Divine Son, Jesus Christ, in the Sacraments of Penance and Holy Eucharist. This is because she understands that the Church exists to call the culture to conversion and to transform it. She knows, too, that in the struggle to row the boat of the Church against the troubled waters of the confusion and error which surround us, there is the temptation to give up and to let the boat move with the times, with the result that the same confusion and error enters into the very life of the Church.

Yet, by giving us her image on the Tilma, so that people might be drawn to see her, so that she can draw them to her Divine Son, Jesus Christ, Our Lady shows that she also fully comprehends that, if we strive every day to give our lives completely to Christ, our great High Priest, Who has made us His brothers and sisters, then we can be confident that the turbulent waters which we are unable to navigate on our own become, with Christ, indeed navigable.

Contemplating her maternal gaze from the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, we see the face of Christ and hear His invitation to unite our hearts to His Sacred Heart, and to unite our lives to His, and, with Mary, give our fiat—“be it done to me according to thy word” (Lc 1, 38)—to our mission, which is daily conversion of life to Jesus Christ, so that, by exercising His pastoral charity, the world might be transformed into a civilization of love. "

His Eminence's Seventeenth Reflection on Nov. 12, 2024. Click on the video link here or read it here.

(by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke):

"At the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, we celebrate the mystery of God’s dwelling with us in His only-begotten Son, conceived in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which the Virgin proclaimed from the moment of her first apparition to Saint Juan Diego on December 9th of 1531. It is the same mystery of God’s immeasurable mercy and love toward us that Our Lady of Guadalupe announced in each of her apparitions over the three days which followed. It is the mystery which she never ceases to announce through her miraculous image which the hand of God Himself left for us on the mantle of Saint Juan Diego on December 12th, the day of her final apparition.

On December 12th, the Virgin provided to Bishop Juan de Zumárraga the sign of the truth of her apparitions, which he had requested from Saint Juan Diego: the miraculous flowering of roses in the middle of winter on a barren and stony hilltop. But, even more wonderfully, God provided the ultimate sign of that truth: He imprinted the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the mantle of Saint Juan Diego, so that, in a certain and true sense, she could continue to appear to His children who would come on pilgrimage to meet her and, in meeting her, to meet her Divine Son, above all, in the Sacraments of Penance and the Most Holy Eucharist.

Coming to the Shrine on pilgrimage, the pilgrim leaves familiar surroundings to climb the Pilgrim Way leading to the Shrine Church out of a desire for a personal encounter with Our Lady, who draws us into an even more personal encounter with her Divine Son, Jesus Christ, for the Virgin of Guadalupe brings us to meet her Divine Son in the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist. The pilgrim indeed sees Our Lord, and encounters Our Lord, while praying in the Shrine Church before the Blessed Sacrament reposed in the tabernacle, in the Sacrament of Penance and, most wonderfully of all, in the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist.

At the same time, the pilgrim should come prepared with that deep desire for that personal encounter, to know Christ more and, therefore, to desire to encounter Him worthily in the Sacraments. The more pilgrims meet Christ in the Sacraments, the more they will want to love Him and to serve Him by bringing His love to their brothers and sisters, especially those who are in most need. Coming on pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe, so that we may lead us to her Son, Our Lord, we understand that communion with Him in sacred worship finds its ultimate expression in the truth and love according to which we conduct our daily lives. True worship of God inspires and strengthens us to do the will of God in all things. Ultimately, the pilgrimage attains its end, when Christ has come to dwell in the heart of each pilgrim, in the pilgrim’s home, through the mystery of His living presence with us in the Church."

The Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the Purest Heart of Saint Joseph,

pray for us!