Today is a church celebration of Mary, mother of Jesus,
born without sin. Then Friday we
remember she appeared to the poor Juan
Diego five hundred years ago on a hill near Mexico City, as a sign of her
love for indigenous peoples everywhere.
The quiet courageous mother of our savior gives us hope for the end of
injustice everywhere. Awaiting the
birth of her baby Jesus she says, “God has done great things for me….His mercy
is from age to age on those who fear him. … He has deposed the mighty from
their thrones and raised the lowly to high places.” {Lk 1:46-55, the Magnificat}
Here is a prayer card written by Fr. E.C. McCarthy invoking
the nonviolent merciful love of Mary, La Virgen de Guadalupe, and her son
Jesus, God incarnate. My wife and I
said it often with our children at bedtime when they were growing up.
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