What People Forget About Our Lady of Guadalupe

[@IONov990]

The Virgin Mary appeared as a mestiza to unite the Spanish and indigenous. Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe. I have a soft spot for Mi Mama. You can see images of her everywhere if you live in an area with a heavy Mexican population. That's one place I want to visit before I die. I have to see the tilma in person. Madre de Dios pray for us.

[@kateriV]

I’ve also imagined that possibility! Loretto definitely ranks high on my list as well.

[@ujuezulofor7687]

Amen I pray you do, I wish to see it as well.

[@IONov990]

@@ujuezulofor7687 Thank you. Mexico is the nearest country to me.

[@mariaramos7903]

It is amazingly beautiful ❤ Our Lady of Guadalupe pray for us 🙏🏼. I pray you get to visit her as I have many times 🙏🏼

[@WilliamBrauner-ie4yq]

It is worth the trip. I was fortunate to see the Tilma last year. Words cannot express …….

[@mperez2730]

The fact that the tilma has lasted this long and was able to withstand a bomb tells you its from God. The metal crucifix that was nearby was bent under the heat of the fire but the tilma remained intact. I was blessed to see it this year and it's beautiful ❤️. Thank you God 🙏

[@robertsmith9096]

I heard that the thin pane regular glass also survived that blast. How very fortunate you were to see the Tilma in person! God‘s blessings to you and yours!

[@ale21424]

Our lady of Guadalupe, Pray for us 🙏 🌹

[@amattei3629]

Amen 🙏

[@luisherrera2203]

Amen

[@ConvincedofChristianity]

Our Lady of Guadalupe, please pray for us!

[@isabellataliamicallef]

About seven years ago I watched a video of yours about Our Lady of Guadalupe and it changed my life! Mary keeps changing my life. I love her and love you Father Mike!!!

[@hollypepen4012]

This feast day has been a hard one for me the last couple years. I lost a loved one suddenly and unexpectedly on December 12, 2022 💔 I’m going to be missing him badly tomorrow and trying to ask Our Lady of Guadeloupe for comfort and hope 💙

[@annbyrne6012]

So sorry for your loss, may Our Lady wrap you in her Heavenly Mantle 🙏

[@hollypepen4012]

@@annbyrne6012 thank you ❤️🙏

[@robertsmith9096]

@@hollypepen4012 and may God bless you and keep you; may his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you, and bring you comfort and peace.

[@roxannearmstrong1219]

🙏

[@Hraffen]

Thank you Father, Im working my way back to religion after being atheist almost all my life, the world needs you 🙏

[@nicolamustard7232]

Bless you. I'll pray for you 🙏🏻❤

[@Cheezy.Nacho.Man38]

As a former agnostic, I’m happy for you. I discovered our religion is not a leap of blind faith but a reasonable reason to believe. Juan Diego’s tilma it’s just one of the countless things our church possesses that science classifies as “ unexplained phenomenon.”

[@KristinaCawley-n1f]

I second that. His passion about the things of God is infectious. ^.^

[@suec2441]

Pray the Rosary everyday and watch the graces flow. It’s amazing. 🩵🙏🏼

[@wiiildfire]

@@suec2441 Yes, get a rosary, have it blessed, and pray with it. As a convert myself it’s been one of the most beautiful things.

[@Daniel-eu6gt]

What I found particularly fascinating is Gods' perfect timing. In Europe, Catholicism was a little hurt in the early 16th century with Luther and the Protestant Reformation. Many of our brothers and sisters were lead away from the Church. While Europe was struggling, Our Lady miraculously appeared in Mexico and brought a great number of people over to the one holy, Catholic and apostolic Church, many more than were lost in the reformation. Thanks to Mother Mary, the New World became Catholic, and the Church flourished worldwide!!

[@KingBrendan-q6u]

I’m going to be praying the rosary tomorrow night in the cold freezing weather and praying the rosary in the garden and I’m going to see if I can see our lady of Guadalupe star shaped in the sky

[@God_my_Savior]

😭 your comment is so beautiful

[@KingBrendan-q6u]

@ thanks 🙏

[@mesmith640]

Amen, Our Lady of Guadeloupe pray for us!

[@kikijoseph3360]

Father Mike , the Virgin Mary was the first to make a selfie Lady of Guadeloupe you are just awesome 🎉🙏🥳

[@wiiildfire]

😂 Very funny and almost true, because I believe in the Shroud of Turin and that was the first.

[@barbarawalsh2875]

I’m so glad you did this. So many people won’t remember tomorrow I live outside of Chicago and I can tell you that you can’t get anywhere near Des Plaines, Illinois, which is where the national shrine is. The people are out there and it’s about 20° tonight and we have a wind that is coming out of the north And will Drive our windchills overnight between-10 and -20 below zero. This is obviously the coldest night and Thursday will be the coldest day that we will have had so far. But that does not stop the people from coming what blew my mind when I was watching a bit on the news. There are some people who actually walk the last mile on their knees we have mass at 5 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. I am truly looking forward to it . Of course it’s giving the floral shops that are in the grocery stores a lot of business in roses today. But thanks for talking about it and bringing it up. It’s very important afternoon. I am enjoying your advent presentation first thing in the morning. First thing I listened to is wonderful. You obviously worked hard and did a lot of research. It is a job. Well done thank you again. May your advent be going well.

[@ayereen-xc1uu]

¡¡Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!! ❤

[@zanahorias88]

Viva!

[@Fredricksaviour]

Dear all pray that god forgives my parents completely and heals my parents completely. Let god give them the gifts of the holy spirit and grant our family love, joy and peace.

[@R.C.425]

The research i've done says the tilmas don't last for more than 5-7 years, and that's incredible❤😊

[@paulkelly4828]

Fr Mike! I saw you my brother in Newark Art Center. I was the one that came in a half hour late and bowed to your holy presents 🙏. Thank you for the leadership of your example of our Lord Jesus 💓 🙏

[@ChildofGod98765]

LORD JESUS Having two sons with special needs is overwhelming at times because they require so much from me. As a single mother things are difficult. I keep faith in you Jesus even as I struggle to pay rent, and as I struggle to buy groceries. Every month is a battle. I want to give up. Yet my Faith is my strength.

[@michellevisco9390]

May God Bless you abundantly and provide all your needs. 🙏

[@airinmccanntaireachd]

Viva Cristo Rey y Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!!!! 🎇🎆✨🎉🎈❤️🕊️🫶🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹✨

[@marthaperez854]

Que viva!!

[@jorgealday9398]

Love it ❤ Viva la virgen de Guadalupe!!!!

[@jenzielouize1348]

Our Lady of Guadalupe pray for us.❤

[@MatthewSixteenTwentyfour]

Dear Father Mike, as always, thank you for your program and the wonderful messages you give us every week. I’m an avid follower and try not to miss any of your videos. In this case, however, here are a few points that I would just like to humbly bring to your attention as there could be some misconception or lack of precision on the accuracy of the facts. 1. When Juan Diego first came across our Lady of Guadalupe, he going to look after his uncle who was sick. He was going to his catechism instruction. After a couple of apparitions (in fact the last one), his uncle was very ill and he tried to take a different path to avoid meeting Our Lady as he was going to get help for his uncle. That’s when Our Lady of Guadalupe told him not to worry and she healed his uncle at that instant (later his uncle told Juan Diego that that same lady had appeared to him and cured him). 2. The place was where the temple was to be built was not called Guadalupe yet. That name was given or interpreted (there’s a whole discussion as to whether it was the same as Guadalupe in Spain or was the Nahuatl term “coatlaxopeuh” - which is pronounced almost the same as the Spanish term Guadalupe - and it means “”). 3. Juan Diego does not say he doesn’t have time, but instead that he is nobody. He kindly asks our Lady if she could send someone else instead who the bishop would believe. 4. Juan Diego does not take off his tilma, he just uses it (as it was common) to hold the roses, wrapping them up with the tilma. 5. The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe (mixed blood of Spanish and native), i.e. true Mexican (as one other comment rightly says, to unite the Spanish and the native. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT, Father, as she did not come to represent the native pre-hispanic people, or to take the "side of the oppressed"

[@Dback121584]

Is the first time you hear Fr. Mike speak? He paraphrases and uses relaxed language. That's his style. He's not giving an academic paper here.

[@ruthortega5822]

​@@Dback121584So very true. I watch and listen to him daily. My day is then complete.

[@-gina1114]

Thank you Father Mike and Team Ascension Presents. I heard some things I needed to hear. So grateful. Thank you, again. God bless you.

[@TXsST8]

I have had the amazing honor of knowing and having Her in my home all of my life and of having a personal relationship with Her. Throughout my life She has made Herself known to me and has intervened on my behalf to our Lord and Savior. The love that she has for Her Son is freely given to us all! Praise God Almighty for entrusting us to Her!

[@noluckasmr]

Bro you’re one step away from Worshipping her 😂 I’m trying real hard to get into Catholicism but when I see comments like this…brother nobody is talking to you in your heart except for The Father, The Son, Or the Holy Spirit. Let me just ask you this and perhaps I can learn. When you “talk” to her do you, close your eyes and talk in your head? I’m just curious how do you separate that from praying to God and you don’t think by saying she does all these wonderful things for you, you’re taking away from the Gifts and blessing GOD gives you? You don’t think you can get this same blessings without praying through a human to pray to God for you? Surely you know God loves you equally as all the people in heaven and would not listen to them more over you

[@michellehyde1473]

@@noluckasmrI’ve been a lifelong Catholic and have issues with praying to Mother Mary and the saints…I would find the video of Fr Mike talking about this…it really helped me…we’re only asking them to intercede for us and send up prayers to the Father… But, yes…I get where you’re coming from…I go ‘straight to the source’ as well and have just recently started saying the rosary…

[@maryanne8395]

​​@@noluckasmrWhy would Jesus be upset for you talking to His Mother? I think he's going to be more upset with the people who show her so little respect. She is the MOTHER of GOD, we don't worship her, we honor her and trust her to intercede for us. Think of the wedding of Cana, when they ran out of wine. Mary took the problem to Jesus and even though his time had not yet come, he did what she asked of him. Don't you know, Jesus will not deny his mother anything! She takes our grubby prayers, polishes them to sweet perfection and presents them to her Son. Trust me, when you allow Mary to be your Mom, the graces from God are neverending ❤

[@user-gr1mn6fv8m]

Context though. It makes sense looking through the lens salvation history in the Bible as a source. God didn't go "straight to the source" with salvation history. He didn't wave a magic wand and send Jesus to appear out of thin air to eradicate sin as soon as the fall happened in Genesis, despite having the capability to do so. There were years of hardship and mistakes and brokenness in the lineage of Abraham and King David. God sent Jesus to us through birth, by Mary's womb through these lineages. He could have streamlined the whole process of salvation history. But he didn't. God chose Mary deliberately to have Jesus. He was establishing an example. Mary was Jesus' mother and his first disciple. She is directly involved in mankind's salvation history (not of her own interest or accord, but divinely chosen) still. Isaiah 55:8-9 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

[@artist1758]

Love you Father 🎉❤😊 god bless u and keep u With a gracious smile

[@DOVEOUTSOURCING]

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pray for us

[@art3617]

So this is the sign, huh? For the past week Ive been planning a road trip to see all 21 California Missions. There is a good and bad history behind their development and I was curious if I should continue. Aside from my many main goals for the trip, I planned to pray at each mission for those who lost their lives during these harsh and glorious days. Earlier in the day and just recently during Adoration, I prayed to God to give me a sign to either go or not. And guess what popped up on my KZbin. Prayer is powerful. Thank you for your videos, Father.

[@suzanneadalsteinsson6140]

Father, you look extra Fatherly, and extra loving speaking of our Mother - wow!! ❤️‍🔥⚜️💙 Thank you, as always. Thank you 🙏 God bless you

[@GodsWhisper940]

Amen, thank God for another day and bless our Daily Devotional Family, be blessed everyone 🙏 ❤

[@chainsawjglr]

God Bless You

[@b8akaratn19]

The tilma ... 😮 "See? That's God." This is what i say when these kinds of incredible things happen. Between this, and the Eucharist that turned into heart tissue... i don't get how there are unbelievers. And as for Mary (Mommy), she's swept me up much as you described. My two clay moms both left something to be desired, so i look to Mary for what they didn't provide. Helps in my own parenting, really .. GREAT MSG, TY, Fr. Mike!! 😊

[@noluckasmr]

What do you mean you “Look to Mary”? Why not ask God how to be a good mom, you think he doesn’t know how to parent?

[@user-gr1mn6fv8m]

​@@noluckasmr good question. That's the point. God COULD have parented himself, and has no need to be "parented", but he didn't. "The word became flesh." He humbled his full divinity, (true God and true man) becoming a human being. Mary was divinely chosen, (the holy spirit came down upon her) to be Jesus' mother. She was intentionally chosen. This is significant and deserves to contemplated with scripture and with faith. Keep asking questions.

[@noluckasmr]

@ I feel like I get where you’re coming from, but if you’re saying he humbled himself, it’s more humble to just pick a random lady than it is to pick some sort of perfect woman. She is Blessed among woman simply because God chose her as the mother not because she was already some holy lady who just so happens to now be the mother of Christ. No matter who he came out of, Jesus was always going to be the savior of the World and just one last thing, Jesus came and hung out with sinners, would it really be so horrible if he was born to a regular sinning lady? He came for the sinners, he was poor and from the ghetto, but his mom never sinned once lol

[@b8akaratn19]

@noluckasmr I wasn't

[@b8akaratn19]

@noluckasmr nope, I don't. You may sit down.

[@FeroxMinisterium]

Thank you Fr Mike, this was great! Blessed Mother Mary, pray for us!

[@jasonthomas12]

I love Our Lady

[@marann7223]

Thanks for spreading the story! I’m from Mexico I’ve been to La basílica de Guadalupe quite a few times, it’s very impressive, greetings

[@user-kg1zv5xb1m]

Thank you Father.. so moving ✝️🙏🏻🌹

[@fredicksyenito]

God bless you Fr. Mike. May God give you a good health and hope you become a bishop one day. 🙏🏼

[@cindyluwho602003]

You have enlightened me & I thank you.

[@Cheezy.Nacho.Man38]

Long live our Lady of Guadalupe❤🎉12

[@susanfitterer3695]

God is AMAZING!

[@debbiegraham5585]

Hi Fr. Mike, thank you.

[@angeloguevara4462]

Amen, our lady of Guadalupe, pray for us 🙏

[@catherinebrule9963]

I would also recommend the book, "Our Lady of Guadalupe: A Civilization of Love" by Anderson and Chavez. It goes into incredible detail about the cultural significance surrounding the story and image. For example, the roses weren't just a cool party trick; rather, flowers were a native cultural image for Truth.

[@YuriBaja]

Mama Mary's miraculous selfie.

[@LaurenceNaseb-si7nl]

Thank you Fr Mike as always I love and appreciate your work🙏🙏

[@wonderwoman6232]

I have picked our lady Mary as my Mom. She is also part of my journey back to God. I now say the rosary daily. I have also gotten a Miraculous Metal. She is definitely praying for me.❤

[@cathrinevela9514]

I loved your comment. God bless you.

[@Roni78z]

High ten to the Blessed Mother! 🙌🏻

[@ruthortega5822]

Thank you Fatger Mike. Great to hear the story of Juan Diego and La Gguadalupana hermosa.

[@stevemartin6267]

Two aspects of the Tilma we need more publicity for. Firstly, the apparition was in 1531. The Lutheran nonsense started in 1517, resulting in millions leaving the Catholic Church in Europe. Our Lady's appearance in 1531 was a counter strike that brought 10 million Mexicans to the Catholic Church in the first 10 years. Seeing the apparition as a response that countered the reformation shows that Our Lady is not to be defeated by Satan. The second thing that is really important is that apparently the outside part of the image has been painted to make it look better (*grumbles*). Atheists are able to point to chipped paint and say - "look it is clearly fake you can see where the paint is falling off." We need better info on this so that we can answer the criticism. There is not much on this anywhere. Why do people muck about with gifts from God??? The image at Las Lajas also has two Crowns added to the image. I am sure it was done for good purposes but it undermines the credibility of the miracle because it just doesn't look right. The very well meaning repairs of the Shroud with cotton resulted in a demonic action where these repairs found there way into the carbon dating of the Shroud resulting in a false Carbon Dating measurement. For goodness sakes don't touch or try to improve miracles. God knows what He is doing!!!

[@patriot1303]

Thank you Father Mike that was a message to me and I needed to hear it tonight

[@Msflamingo-wl4qo]

God bless you and all! 🌹🌹Mother Mary, our Most Gracious Advocate, please pray for us to the Lord, Our God. Thank You, we love You!🌹🌹

[@michaelman957]

I love Our Lady.

[@micjbaron]

Thank you, message was perfect timing 🙏

[@claremonea872]

Thank you Father for the reminder. God bless x

[@simple_naildesigns]

So beautiful, mother Mary please pray for us 🙏

[@betrys]

Thank you Fr MIke for your wonderful words always ❤

[@SaraSpeaks738]

Thank you

[@karcar818]

Acaso no estoy yo aquí, que soy tu madre? 🙏🏻 that’s why Mexicans love her so much she is our mother ❤ She spoke to the native people through her garment. It was designed in heaven. It’s full of messages from God. Even the music that can be played following the stars 🌟 on the tilma. It’s all real ❤

[@leedixon4228]

Thank you Father Mike. Our Lady of Guadalupe pray for us.❤️🙏

[@God_my_Savior]

Thank you Lord for giving us your mother, the most merciful and beautiful Mother our Mother. Holy Mother of God, pray for us! ❤️✝️🛐 Father Mike 40 yrs old still young 🙊 i am 38 i consider myself young 😅

[@frankie8648]

Thank you, Father Mike✝️

[@michaelman957]

The book "Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness" is absolutely worth reading. Pretty harrowing at times, but worth it for understanding the whole context and why Our Lady's apparition is so beautiful. Short book too.

[@wiiildfire]

@@michaelman957 Thank you so much for the recommendation!

[@CanonPaulHamilton]

Have y’all seen the recent evidence of the image in her eyes? Its quite amazing.

[@iamneverwrong6635]

The fact that our Blessed Mother appeared in the image in the Tilma as a peasant pregnant woman in the heavens- it told the people that she was above heaven AND earth and above all the false gods they were worshiping up to that time - yet she was beautiful and accessible to them with her holy message at the same time. Millions upon millions converted due to that gorgeous image of the Queen of Heaven! Mary is such an incredible gift to mankind. Blessed Mother -pray for us!!!

[@DomingoCaro-h5v]

Amén

[@courtnayzeitler8564]

Sharing.

[@johannalograsso9056]

Amen 🙏♥️

[@monicateleckisobolewski5844]

Guadalupe definitely is the most important and wonderful apparition. Too many aspects and messages.

[@nancidansouis7633]

Thank you Fr. Mike. I had an abusive mother and that left a huge scar on my heart. Knowing that Mary is my mother has helped to erase that scar. It will take a little time for it to heal but I know that it will because Jesus gave me the gift of His mother.

[@reginatabraham6239]

Amen Padre! 💕

[@colleenmullen4447]

Thank you Father, for recommendation on Dr. Peter Kreeft's book ❤

[@susandelongis885]

Breathtaking, Father. No wonder so much spiritual warfare there to this day. May God bless and protect the children of the Beautiful Mother of God, especially in this season of the greatest miracle of all. 🙏

[@josem.castorena4853]

Long Live The Queen.

[@Shonda-Psalm91]

Very interesting teaching. I enjoyed it. Thank you! 🕊️

[@Jana-on5uo]

❤ our lady of Guadeloupe I love you. Please send us funds soon. ❤thank you God and our lady of Guadeloupe

[@margaretn.9851]

Amen

[@1armijo]

Thanks!

[@LucilleMedina-lw1xu]

Our lady of Guadalupe, Pray for us 🌹🌹🌹

[@bellyruzmom]

He was tall , they always make him short , the tilt is 5 feet 7 inches …. Juan Diego was so sweet ❤️he did not want to disrespect her so he avoids her because his uncle needed anointing of the sick ….

[@shareenchoudhury-leighton1748]

💙 God is love & love encompasses every one of us 💙

[@R_Thomp]

Thank you Father

[@rahulghosh96]

Happy feast

[@CatholicSaintslayIncorrupt]

Mother Mary through default of being Gods Mother, was given us for her children too. As No one is above God! A big surprise for her too!!! 😊

[@twopeoplepointingtogod824]

PRAISE GOD

[@jflores85]

Please do a video on our lady of Akita

[@biggusbestus551]

The story of the California Catholic Missions were required curriculum in the when I was a child. I lived close to the Mission Santa Clara in the 1950s. This is a good study to learn of the Spanish and the Church back then.

[@cmgambit23]

Pray 3 Rosaries / day for 10 days. It'll change your life

[@SueProv]

Juan Diego was 57 at the time of the apparitions.

[@ericplas9177]

Today I have started to prepare the tamales for tomorrow's our Lady of Guadalupe fest .We'll pray the rosary and eat.

[@susy7036]

Juan Diego was 57 when our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to him.

[@user-zc2ey4jn7x]

Mother Mary pray for my daughters that they may align their wills to the Father’s Will.

[@yasmin1910]

Pleasee talk about our lady of aparecida

[@PatronSaintKolbe93]

Here is something that was my epiphany, overall. We all know that in Revelation 12, we all know who the woman is as Queen of Heaven and Earth. At the time when of Pentecost happened, when the Holy Spirit came down and gave the gift of speaking in other languages to spread the word… who was also in the room? Our Lady. If the apostles and disciples can speak other languages, Our Lady can speak ALL the languages on earth. That’s why Our Lady has to many titles and rightfully so. We love and honor Our Lady. Our Lady of Guadalupe, please and continue to pray for all of us. Amen.

[@Justyouraverageguy172]

Actually thank you for this information. This never hit me until you mentioned it and it makes sense.

[@Shannon_Lacey]

The beard looks awesome Father Mike.

[@doateacher6492]

Father Mike, you'd love the book Guadalupe and the Flower World Prophecy by Joseph Julian and Monique Gonzalez!

[@ManuelGonzalez-se4vz]

I carry her with me every day

[@donaldakosior9840]

Pray for my daughter who doesn’t believe in Mother Mary, she was raised Catholic 🙏

[@artist1758]

❤😊 Amen

[@paulacevedo8814]

Amen😇🙏❤

[@robertkhan7399]

OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE,PRAY FOR US SINNERS.

[@2225ram]

🙏🏻🛐✝️❤️

[@metildajoseph5265]

Greetings Father Mike, Key Thoughts :- -> Weekly Vlog reflect with, "Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe helps to contemplate about The Path of New Hope which happens through Our Lady's Intercession before Lord Jesus Christ in all aspects." -> Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Father. With regards, Ranjith Joseph (R.J)