Greetings on this the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Readings: Rev 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; Judith 13:18bcde, 19; Luke 1:39-47
Summary
Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled (Lk 1:39-45).
She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne. The woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God, that there she might be taken care of for twelve hundred and sixty days. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have salvation and power come, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Anointed.(Rev 12:5-6, 10ab).
Reflection
Mary set out. She did not forget the Indigenous, the oppressed, the disappeared. Nor has she forgotten you.
Personal Reflection
Reflection of this feast last year: https://deacongerrypalermo.blog/2024/12/12/celebrating-juan-diego-and-divine-promises/
Photo reflection on the diaspora: https://deacongerrypalermo.blog/2022/01/12/diaspora/
House of the Migrant: https://deacongerrypalermo.blog/2022/06/04/these-things-were-written/
Sacred Readings full text:
Peace be with you,
Deacon Gerry