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OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE - TRULY A MIRACULOUS IMAGE

Posted : Dec-18-2021

Please find in this blog the videos that I recommended in my homily this weekend to watch in order to gain some insight into the amazing story of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego. You must be subscribed to FORMED to watch the first video. All parishioners have a free subscription available to them through the generosity of Knights of Columbus, Humber Valley Council. To sign up, visit https://formed.org/ and click on "Sign Up". You then can click on "Sign up as a Parishioner" and type in our postal code M9N 2B4 to find our subscription and sign up. It's free and you now have at your fingertips documentaries, talks, movies, children's material, audio books and much more.
 
Start off by watching this beautiful documentary:
You will learn a lot about the history of St. Juan Diego as well as the story and symbolism of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the role she played in the conversion of many.
 
Continue on to watch:
This video gives an indepth and fascinating explanation of many amazing meanings and symbols on the actual image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. 
 
As we come closer to the time of Christ's birth, let us learn more about the image from the only apparition where the Blessed Mother appears pregnant, appears as the first Tabernacle carrying the Christ child and her role in converting many to her Son through her interaction with St. Juan Diego.  
Blessed Virgin with darker skin, looking down dressed in a turquoise mantle