12:12:09 Santa Maria de Guadalupe The Queen and Patroness of the Americas, Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Vatican Radio - As every year, the Marian shrine in Mexico attracts millions of pilgrims, coming from more distant centers, after hours or days of walking. One dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe is the most visited Marian shrine in the world and is a prayerful witness of the apparitions in 1531, to the Indian Juan Diego. E ', stressing, microphone Amedeo Lomonaco, the Chilean journalist Luis Badilla (listen):
R. - Mary's presence for the people of America has a fundamental importance, especially in everyday life. Today, Latin Americans and people of America, in venerating the Virgin of Guadalupe not want to do is celebrate a maternal relationship that recalls its roots and, more importantly, gives them courage to face the challenges of the future. D. - What impression left in the sixteenth century, a period of history marked by the arrival of the Spaniards and Europeans in Latin America, the apparitions of the Virgin in Mexico?
R. - This is the beginning of inculturation. Our Lady of Guadalupe, from the iconographic point of view, is a Latin American. It 's a "morena", dark complexion, who speaks in the Aboriginal language, that is the language of the peoples of Latin America. It addresses last among the last, a poor Indian. So the essential meaning is the great challenge of inculturation of the Gospel that goes on from then until the present day.
D. - And what continues to bear fruit even in the twenty-first century, and especially in Latin America, the Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe?
R. - Many of these fruits can be. As they say a few Latin Americans in recent days: "It 's possible that you do not believe in God, but God believes in you." The first message you send today, Our Lady of Guadalupe is that the people of Latin America, the American people feel loved by God and then have the strength or should have the strength to love others. Our Lady of Guadalupe now bears the Latin American peoples teaching of fundamental importance to social exclusion, moral, cultural, scientific, it is difficult to build a civilization of love. If God loves you, you can return that love by loving the other.
D. - Every year millions of pilgrims visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Many come from remote villages and towns after hours and days of travel. What are the hopes of these people united in faith?
R. - These people, in its religious roots, in his Christian faith, and particularly Catholic, continues to find a distance of half a millennium since its discovery or its encounter with European culture, the strength to bear witness to their roots.
taken from http://perfettaletizia.blogspot.com/2009/12/il-continente-americano-in-festa-per-la.html
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