{"id":68323,"date":"2024-06-06T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=68323"},"modified":"2024-06-24T00:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T04:05:50","slug":"on-guadalupe-and-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/on-guadalupe-and-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"On Guadalupe And Motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motherhood is a trust that can never be broken!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The ancient culture of the Aztecs sacrificed adults to their gods for war, and sacrificed children to their gods for rain.<\/b>\u00a0 That was part of life for the Aztecs until the Spaniards came in the 16<\/span>th<\/span> century and wanted their gold.\u00a0 And the missionaries followed, and they wanted their souls.\u00a0 By then, the Aztecs had witnessed bloodletting by their own leaders and bloodletting by their conquerors, so they were not about to become Christians.\u00a0 Then something happened.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1531 the Holy Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego, a 57-year-old Aztec Indian, and left her image on his tilma (long apron).<\/b>\u00a0 This image was not made by human hands and its creation remains a mystery nearly 500 years later.\u00a0 She told him who she is:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read these words slowly and take them into your mind and start to understand more fully what our Blessed Virgin Mother is saying to us.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cKnow, know for sure my dearest and youngest son, that I am truly the ever perfect Holy Virgin Mary, who has the honor to be the Mother of the one true God for whom we all live, the Creator of people, the Lord of all around us and of what is close to us, the Lord of Heaven, the Lord of Earth\u2026.I will exalt Him upon making Him manifest, I will give Him to all people in all my personal love,\u2026do not fear\u2026Am I not here, I who have the honor to be your mother?\u00a0 Are you not in my shadow and under my protection?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

In these few words we understand that Mary is not only the Mother of God but that she is also the spiritual mother of Juan Diego, as well as all of us.<\/b>\u00a0 Furthermore, her image communicates to the world that she is with child, God made flesh.\u00a0 As was worn typically by pregnant Indian women in the time of Juan Diego, it is the dark ribbon tied high above her waist that reveals her state of being with child.\u00a0 After this event, within ten years, nine million people of the Americas came to believe in the Christian God and were baptized into the Catholic faith.\u00a0 What all the missionaries from Spain could not do was accomplished by one man and the image on his tilma.\u00a0 Why was Mary\u2019s apparition so successful?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What the Holy Virgin Mary communicated to Juan Diego was not only most meaningful to him, but was also meaningful to millions of people who came to believe that Mary carried God within her womb.<\/b>\u00a0 The realization of Mary being a mother, the mother of God and also the spiritual mother of Juan Diego is central to the very fabric of the story he told.\u00a0 Yes, the ancient Aztec nation understood what all humans understood at that time:\u00a0 a mother is a nurturing person who has a God given faithful and steadfast love for the child in her womb, and she can be trusted with this life regardless of what other horrors are taking place.\u00a0 Motherhood is the trusted cornerstone of human life on this earth.\u00a0 The Aztecs trusted Mary\u2019s word because she spoke to them as a mother:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026do not fear\u2026Am I not here, I who have the honor to be your mother?\u00a0 Are you not in my shadow and under my protection?\u201d <\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, in half a human lifetime, the whole upper hemisphere of our planet has lost the concept of motherhood, that loving relationship, that trust of mother with child.<\/b>\u00a0 How did this happen?\u00a0 The slippery slope began around 1930 when artificial birth control started to gain acceptance in our society.\u00a0 The invention of the birth control pill occurred in the sixties and was followed by the sexual revolution during the same decade.\u00a0 By 1973 the ground-work had been laid, and a small group of men in the United States Supreme Court pronounced abortions as legal for the entire country.\u00a0 Medical schools changed or completely ceased their graduates\u2019 declaration of the Hippocratic Oath (written around 370 B.C.) which included the words:\u00a0 \u201cI will not give to a woman an abortive remedy.\u201d\u00a0 Laws have power in the human mind, and the law of man, not the law of God began to take hold.\u00a0 The small fire grew into a large fire by the wind of propaganda through the use of media.\u00a0 And so the wind spread the fire of the rule of law, human law that has created the holocaust of the unborn that is now taking place over the entire Northern hemisphere.\u00a0 What would the loving Creator of our world, the Creator of human life think if (and it is close to happening) the entire Southern hemisphere also legalizes abortion?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pro-choice propaganda has essentially changed our culture and has affected all human beings who live under the law and the culture of death to the unborn.\u00a0 <\/b>Pro-choice is evil at work.\u00a0 And what is evil?\u00a0 Evil is the absence of truth, and its power comes from the desensitizing effect of propaganda and of laws.\u00a0 As a result, we are losing what the whole world understood as the trust of motherhood.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Many mothers and fathers now consider themselves pro-choice.\u00a0 That terminology is meant to sound harmless, but it is the lie that covers up the agony of an unborn child\u2019s sense of imminent destruction as seen by real-time ultrasound:\u00a0 sudden increase of heart rate, severe agitation of body movements, and the facial expression of a child screaming in pain.\u00a0 That is evil at its best.\u00a0 In the Aztec Nation where the horror of sacrificing children was practiced, its people still clung to the basic understanding of motherhood as the trusted cornerstone of human life.\u00a0 In our Nation, in our time, the poison of compromising truth has deluded our people into believing that a mother\u2019s right to choose is higher than a child\u2019s right to live.<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember, adoration is for God alone.\u00a0 Mary is not adored as some have mistakenly claimed:\u00a0 she is venerated.\u00a0 <\/b>Veneration is honoring another.\u00a0 It is found in God\u2019s commandments:\u00a0 Honor your father and your mother.\u00a0 Mary deserves profound honor as God\u2019s mother and our spiritual mother:\u00a0 \u201cHere is your mother.\u201d (John 19:27)\u00a0 God humbled Himself and became flesh through her motherhood so that we may be born of the Spirit and have life in His kingdom.\u00a0 The first part of the Hail Mary Prayer is a repetition of the words found in the Gospel of Luke.\u00a0 The last line asks Mary to pray for us at the hour of our death, something that we would ask our closest friend to do.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Never forget that it is through the Holy Virgin Mary that we are reminded that motherhood is a trust that should never be broken.<\/b>\u00a0 For the rest of his life, until his death at age 74, Juan Diego persistently witnessed to the fidelity and love that the Holy Virgin Mary has for us and for the Son of her womb.\u00a0 Juan Diego speaks to the young and to the old of our generation, and today we must have the courage that he had to <\/span>witness to the<\/b> truth<\/b>:\u00a0 Pro-choice is murder, and the abortion law has created a holocaust across the world.\u00a0 We must maintain a vision of hope and bravely speak for life knowing that Mary is with us:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026do not fear\u2026Are you not in my shadow and under my protection?\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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