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“Show us you are a mother!”

On May 1, 1970, Saint Josemaria announced his desire to cross the Atlantic and prostrate himself at the feet of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Recalling the circumstances of that outburst of filial love for our Lady, Bishop Javier Echevarria, who went with him, wrote 25 years later, “I would go so far as to say – in fact I heard him say so himself several times – that it was our Lady who obliged him to undertake that penitential pilgrimage, because she wanted him to pray for her intercession for the good of the world, the Church, and that little portion of the Church which is Opus Dei, there at the feet of the Virgen Morena.”

Early in the morning on May 15, 1970, Saint Josemaria arrived in Mexico City. “I’ve come to see Our Lady of Guadalupe – and, by the way, to see you too,” he told his children in Opus Dei there as soon as they met. The next day, May 16, even before he had fully adapted to the change of altitude and time difference, he went to the Basilica and began his novena. He continued it until May 24.

On the first day he stayed on his knees in the sanctuary for over an hour and a half. His eyes fixed on the picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe, he addressed a very intense prayer to our Heavenly Mother, telling her with total trust, “Monstra te esse Matrem! Show that you’re a Mother! If a little child asked his mother that, there isn’t a single mother who wouldn’t be moved. Hear us: I know you will!” On the following days he was able to go up to a little balcony, where he was very close to the picture itself and could pray without attracting attention….

Praise the Lord

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