What People Forget About Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
The apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary that came to be known as Our Lady of Guadalupe was a miracle. The Castilian roses that came from Tepeyac Hill in winter were a miracle. The divinely illustrated vision of Our Lady on St. Juan Diego's tilma was a miracle—as is the fact that the tilma composed of organic fibers has refused to degrade for 500 years and is still available to see to this day.
But none of those were the greatest miracle that Our Lady brought to the Americas that fateful century. Fr. Mike points out the incredible miracle that many people gloss over—but the one that makes an eternal difference.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascentra Presents. |
| 0:02.0 | There has been a bunch of missionaries who have left everything to come be with the people of the new world. |
| 0:08.0 | Why? Because they believed that it was worth leaving everything to bring these people the best thing they had to offer. |
| 0:14.0 | There are many people from Europe came to the New World to exploit, to dominate, to steal, to ravage, all those things. |
| 0:21.0 | But Catholic missionaries came to the New World for one reason only. |
| 0:26.4 | They themselves had been loved by God into life. |
| 0:30.8 | They themselves knew the true story about a God who left heaven, right? |
| 0:34.4 | If Jesus Christ comes, the word became fleshed both among us so that we might |
| 0:37.7 | have life and have it in abundance. And so they left everything they knew to come to the new world |
| 0:43.5 | in the hopes that they'd be able to pass on this good news, pass on this grace, pass on this new |
| 0:48.5 | life to people they had never met, people that might not even want it. And that's what happened |
| 0:52.4 | in the first 40, 50 years of Christianity being here in the new world. |
| 0:57.4 | Maybe, I don't know, maybe a couple thousand converts. |
| 1:00.5 | Then something happened in December of 1531. |
| 1:04.0 | There's a young man, or actually he's 40-something, so you tell me if that's young or not. |
| 1:08.3 | His name was Juan Diego. |
| 1:09.9 | And Juan Diego was on his way |
| 1:11.5 | through the hills of Pepeyak in Mexico, what is now Mexico. To take care of his uncle was sick. |
| 1:17.5 | Now, Juan Diego was one of those people who had had a conversion to Catholicism. He had converted |
| 1:22.5 | to becoming a Christ follower. And at one point, on his way to take care of his sick uncle, |
| 1:28.0 | this young woman appeared to him. She seemed like she was a Mitzis. So right, she was a native. |
| 1:33.4 | She also seemed to be 15 or 16 years old. And she had a message for Juan Diego to go to the bishop |
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