Thursday, December 12, 2019 – Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe — Carmelite homily for Lectionary 690a
Today we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe where Mary appears in Aztec and Christian symbols on a hill in Mexico City, Tepeyac, to an indigenous man, Juan Diego, and has a message of unity and brotherhood and sisterhood and love — that it is an embrace of God. That’s a wonderful message. Teresa of Avila, when she’s describing her reformed Carmels, her new foundations, says, “Here all are friends; here all are helped; here all are loved.” Even though that comes from Teresa of Avila that is exactly the message of today’s Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.