I do not claim to be an expert on Our Lady of Guadalupe. I claim to be a woman with an Amazon account who has read the scholars and done research as well as sought out those considered to be experts (The writings of Mnsgr Eduardo Chavez, Fr. Mario Sanchez and original documents as well as Cardinal Burke, Fr Peter Damian Fehlner, Fr Thomas Loya on Iconography and many more).
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I have talked with some, met with others and I have read their books for the past 3 years. Using their work, their writings and their discoveries I simply connect the dots. While the experts see the miracle of 1531, I seek to point out the Miracle of the 21st century. Our Lady of Guadalupe has been providentially chosen by God to re-evanglize the world, to offer healing, protection and deliverance. She is also declaring that she is Co-Redemptrix, or rather God is declaring it in the Tilma. All of things things are not subjective but objective proves that I can show using the Nahuatl Glyphs, the language of Iconography, theology, scripture and of course the writings of Mnsgr. Eduardo Chavez and others. I hope you enter into this great Miracle for she is the ark upon which we must board.
I would also like to share that I personally hand delivered my research to the Secretary of Cardinal Burke when we was visiting the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse. He was the Bishop of the Diocese I grew up in and he helped me to become a speaker by allowing me to speak throughout his Diocese and writing me a letter of recommendation. He reviewed my work and wrote to me from Rome asking me to go see Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner at the Shrine. Fr. Fehlner reviewed my work and offered me two of the books you see below to help me continue my research.
Here are some slide shows on Our Lady of Guadalupe. Did you know she was predestined to be the intercessor of the America's? Did you know the Shroud of Turin perfectly aligns with the tilma and the image of Divine Mercy? Did you know that there are new discoveries within the image proving that Heaven is re-issuing an invitation to listen to a message within it for the Church of the 21st Century, the time when the technology was invented to discover the secrets contained within it until we were ready to see, hear and act upon on it. God is good.
Here is the descriptions of each slide:
Slide 2
Our Lady of Guadalupe was predestined to be the protector of
the faithful, the remnant Church and the America’s. The Icon was carved using Mary herself as a
model by St. Joseph, “written” not painted as it is an icon, by St. Luke and
then given and used as a means of protection and healing throughout the
centuries. Protection from the uprising
of Radical Islam/Muslims and protection from the plague. She is tied to Our Lady of Fatima through
protecting the area from Muslims, to Our Lady of Lourdes in that the
Franciscan's formulated the dogma of the Immaculate Conception before it was
formerly declared by St. Bernadette and she is tied to Our Lady of Kibeho
through the 7 sorrows of the Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico.
Slide 3
The Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe-Spain was carried over the
head of St. Gregory when the plague took the life of the Pope; St. Gregory
became Pope and carried the icon over his head as he fled the city saving many
of the faithful with him as they went.
He later gave the image to Bishop Leander in Spain that was enduring
persecution by the moors (Radical Muslims which beheaded Catholic Christians). I believe we will see major conversions of the
Muslim faith through Mary, particularly that of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
See next slide
Slide 4
Bishop Leander pleaded for the intercession of Our Lady of
Guadalupe-Spain the icon (she was not named yet and would be named after being
discovered by a farmer upon Mary’s personal direction) next slide
Slide 5
It should be said that the area now known as Fatima was
named such after Mohammad’s own daughter converted to Catholicism after falling
in love with a Catholic that remained in that area under the protection of the
buried Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe-Spain.
Her husband renamed the area “Fatima” after his wife (yes the once Muslim
daughter of Mohammad that converted to Catholicism) Fatima is the 2nd
most frequented pilgrimage to this day for Muslims in honor of Fatima.
In 1326 a little known farmer Gil Cordero saw Mary appear to
him telling him where to go to find the buried Icon. He brought with him men from the church to
the spot pointed out. It was discovered along with documents authenticating it. Our Lady asked for a Church to be built in
honor of her and the icon. There was a
river that ran near the location and so the name of the Church and the Icon
became “Our Lady of Guadalupe” because Guadalupe means water that runs
through/within/between the black rocks. Mnsgr. Eduardo Chavez, the
world-renowned scholar on all things Our Lady of Guadalupe, has authenticated
this.
1340 King Alfonso made a pilgrimage to her Church to
consecrate his Land to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Slide 6
1464 King Alfonso’s daughter, Queen Isabella went on
pilgrimage with her husband King Ferdinand and consecrated herself and her
reign to OLG. She would meet Christopher
Columbus at a gathering. He told her that
the Holy Spirit came to him in a dream telling him that he was to go to distant
lands and bring the faith to those who did not know the true God. She had the same dream the night before and
so it would seem providence brought them together. She would become the personal benefactor and
supporter of Christopher Columbus, Cortez and Bishop Zummaraga.
Slide 7
Before departing Christopher Columbus made a pilgrimage to
OLG-Spain to consecrate himself, his vessels and his discoveries to
OLG-Spain. Ironically he would name the
boats Saint Mary the little painted lady, almost 60 years before she would be
painted in Mexico.
Slide 8
In 1519 Cortez went to the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe
and consecrated his voyage and his future work of bringing the faith to the new
lands discovered by Columbus. Cortez
landed on the exact day of the Aztec prophesy telling of the return of the one
true God and King, the sister of Montezuma also dreamed and prophesized the
landing of the men and even described the image that would be on the sail of
the ships (a large cross). This is why
Cortez was able to not only land without incident but it laid the grown work
for him to enter into the very powerfully guarded cities. The first thing Montezuma set to work at was
to bring an end to the demonic sacrifices upon the altars. He destroyed them the altars, held Holy Mass
there to consecrate these places to God and destroy the hold the devil had
claimed on this ground and their people and placed a statue of Mary on them
begging her intercession.
Slide 9
So we see that Mary, particularly OLG had a unique and providential
role in claiming the America’s for her son. She brought protection, guidance,
deliverance, evangelization and intercession.
I will show how she is declaring once again that God has a providential
message and role that she in particular is called to fill right now in this
time of World History. Once again we are
entering into a demonic culture of death and need a supernatural intercessor.
Once again, OLG is the answer.
Slide 10
It is no mistake that Blessed Scot Duns, a Franciscan way
before Our Lady of Lourdes declared it, developed the doctrine of the
“Immaculate Conception”. The Franciscans
were preaching this theology for some time.
The Franciscans were chosen to be the order to teach the faith to the
America’s because this doctrine would we central to understanding the mysteries
within the incarnation, the new eve and the new Adam and God’s call to union
and communion with a love that is divine and free from concupiscence.
Bishop Zumarraga felt unworthy to be the Bishop of the new
lands and so guessed it! He went on pilgrimage to OLG-Spain to consecrate
himself and all of his work to her.
Every single one of the involved in establishing the United States of
America went to OLG-Spain. Coincidence
or providence?
St. Juan Diego is significant because he is laity, simply
formed and not at all a theologian and yet he was chosen to be part of God’s
plan of imparting the faith in the New World.
The place where it would be protected and nurtured while Europe would
later be in turmoil. When Bishop
Zumarraga struggled to share the faith he begged for OLG-Spain to intercede and
asked for a sign. He asked for Castilian roses because they were from the part
of Spain he was from. She would answer
that call and more. The miracle of Tepayac hill consisted of her messages, the
roses he asked for as well as MANY OTHER FLOWERS that were gathered and have
significance, although we only hear of the roses.
Slide 11
This is a codex. A
codex is the way in which Ancient Nahuatl Indians recorded history. They used images and glyphs because they did
not use an alphabet. They could “read”
what was “written” on a codex because every picture spoke to them as a
language. This is the original codex
created by the Nahuatl Indians to record the appearance of OLG. It was created in 1548 and further proves the
miracle of Olg was not something fabricated but less than 17 years after the
event they were recording it as history.
Slide 12
While almost 10 million Nahuatl Indians were converted in
less than 7 years through this image it was because of the language God spoke
to them that this miracle of faith was able to speak. Not only that but the Bishop received the sign
He asked for. It was not until later
however that it was understood what exactly that language was. It was Fr. Mario Rojas Sanchez that first
realized the pictures were Nahunta Glyphs and began to study them for their
meanings and significance. It should be
noted that he also believed that this image was the very image spoken of in
Revelations that St. John saw during mass in a mystical vision. “And I saw the woman clothed in the sun with
the moon at her feet”. It is believed
that the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was what St. John saw in the sky and
then wrote of in Revelations. This is
significant because there is evidence to prove this using the constellations
that are aligned on the tilma that prove in fact that it seems to miss the very
stars spoken of in that passage that were “cast out of heaven by the serpents
tail”.
Slide 13
A=Greater Than The Sun God (she stands in front of
the sun rays to show this is greater)
B=Greater Than The Moon God (she stands on it)
C=her skin color reveals a Mix of Spanish and Nahuatl
Indian (the colors of her skin is mixed)
D=Dressed like a Jewish Woman and colors are of
Indian princess (she dressed both in Israelite garb but the colors where of
Indian royalty)
E=Prayerful posture/ Maraca in hands with the
combination of bent knee she is in posture of worship (dancing and music were
part of highest worship)
F=Cincture for chaste and virginity but worn high on
the woman is indicating pregnancy (revealing a virgin and mother, note there
are 7 tassels)
G=Nahuii Ollin, the crossing of sticks for new fire,
the N,S,E,W, the true God over the womb which is known to contain a child( in
her pregnant womb is the God being proclaimed)
H=The Stars indicating outside of this world the 8
points symbolizing baptism and eschatological grace (heavenly, messenger with
power from the heavens)
I=Brownish pink robe color of the earth (also a
calendar, map and dignity of body expressed)
J=Flower Glyphs (Jasmine flowers significant,
clusters where language for form of prayer through poetry and song)
Water glyph=they would be receive new water rooted with
power from in the heavens, hill glyph combined with water=, new civilization
Wise Man Glyph=(looks like a mans face with eyes, nose and
mouth, known as Shaman or man with wisdom outside of his own comprehension. This
told them the knowledge of the faith being proclaimed in this codex would come
from a wise man with a head shaped like a MITRE. This would be Bishop Z
Bishop MITRE=Bishop Zumaraga as having truth so they opened
up and sought out the Franciscans that wore these pointed hats.
The Glyph of hill and water come together meaning
“civilization” and spoke of an end to human sacrifice (it is Upside down heart)
and a new civilization would be built upon this God’s truths as revealed since
the water way is rooted or flows out of the outer mantle piece which they
understood as divine and from the heavens because of coloring and the 8 pointed
Gold Stars.
K=Broach of Franciscan Cross (the same as the
Franciscans boats and symbols)
L=White Fur cuffs for purity & royal (for Aztecs this
again connoted great royalty)
M=Mexican Magnolia flower of flesh (understood as food so Eucharistic
message within this image, not to mention the overall shape which is corn
shaped, a staple of their diet. In fact
St. Juan Diego proclaimed, “Is this the land of the flesh the land of my
people” when he went to the Hill and spoke with OLG there).
N=Aztec Fold precious cargo (This is the place children or
food were carried. Since the tilma was a
part of everyday attire.
O=Topographical Map of Mexico revealing water ways mountains
and volcano’s revealing location of the apparition and the flowers clusters are
calendar represents the end of an age.
There were signs in the heaven at this time, storms, earthquakes and
volcanoes. Their calendar based on Mayan calendars used “reeds” to understand
time. This image revealed a calendar
within the flower glyphs so in this image the year of the 13 reeds was upon
them signifying an end to an age and beginning of another age. That age is the end to demonic human
sacrifice and the beginning of the age of Faith. We too are being invited into this image
because we are leaving the age of Mercy and the age of Justice is upon us. St. Faustina’s messages from Jesus declared
this.
P=Gold lined convey godlike or royalty
Q=the angel holds the mantle and the robe
R=Clouds convey outside of this world/God
S=Crown originally present on her head but disappeared
Slide 14
Nothing
Slide 15
There is a new message being heralded to the Church of the
21st century in the image on the tilma. The invitation was made when the technology
was created in the world to discover that hidden within the image were
undiscovered meaning.
Slide 16
In an image where everything means something, we discover
using high-powered microscopes that there are images in the eyes of those
gathered in the room when the tilma was presented to Bishop Zummaraga. 14 people including St. Juan Diego himself
and Bishop Zummaraga as well as a family and a black servant freed from slavery
by the Bishop that decided to stay in His service. This was only investigated AFTER seeing the
servant in the eye but was confirmed using eyewitness testimony that was
documented. The eye also had the
components of a living eye. The (Samson-Purkinje effect is a scientific term for the way
the cornea reflects incoming images and inverts one of the three created
reflections onto the back of a living eye.
Using microscopes it was discovered that this effect is present in the
image of the eye of OLG.
Using advanced Kepler's mathematics as well as NASA computer
software, a computer image of the morning sky of 1531 was created and
discovered to align perfectly with the stars laid out on the mantle of
OLG. More significantly they are
inverted, the North and south and east and west are turned. This is the way the Nahuatl Indians created
their own maps so that would be significant by itself but perhaps more
importantly it signifies that was what up (remember the nahuii ollin reveals
that the Indians see the 4 directions of the world signifying God) that the God
who is up has come down (incarnation) and for us it reminds us that was down
(the enemy) is up and roaming about the world.
We are being invited into a message about what this spiritual battle is
all about. Who it is we are fighting,
his battle plan and how we are to defeat him.
This was all discovered now because the message is for us now. Using the original message and meanings of
the glyphs as well as the language of Iconography (an approved and ancient
means of teaching theology in color as well as the constellations and their
Christian roots) we see clearly that God providentially chose Mary to bring us
Jesus, she is the intercessor from which we will board the ark of the new
covenant and with her the Gates of Hell will not prevail against us.
Slide 17
Behold I make all things new! Why would it surprise us that
if God created man and out of his side he would create woman, immaculately
conceived and free from sin much like that of Adam before the fall and make all
things new by taking Man from the flesh of Mary? Her immaculate conception gave
the hands and feet upon which the savior of the world would be formed. With no biological father, Mary is the only
flesh upon which Jesus was created. It
is taking from her side, man. The new Adam
and the new eve. Most of us who
understand science know that men and women share different chromosomes. You can split a twin from one flesh but you
will get the same sex not a male and female.
However, God created us in His image and likeness, Male and female he
created them so the supernatural component of the immortal soul into the flesh
is somehow inexplicably tied to our sexuality as well as our intellect and
biology.
One of the messages being heralded in the image of OLG is
that of the New Adam and The New Eve. It
is an invitation to understand His mother and her unique role in salvation
history as well as our own. She was creature
yet able to do what Mary could not or would not revealing she is our hope
because as mere mortal creature it is possible to live out the will of God
despite living in a broken world. It also heralds a call that all of us are to
enter into the redemption of the world since God is the one who decided to work
through human beings.
Slide 18
She perfectly participated even in eschatological man, she
has received her Glorified body and so paves the way for us. God came to redeem man and woman and there is
something very important about the relationship of man and woman and the call
to love. The love He desires to share
with the world is love perfected, free from concupiscence and it heals and
restores. He is also revealing who He
is, whom God Himself is through this call to love. The incarnation and the message of the New
Adam and New Even are a theology of love and He desires we share it with the
world.
Slide 19
The first pilgrimage the New Pope took was to Our Lady of
Guadalupe in Mexico to consecrate his entire pontificate to her. He also took the writings of St. Faustina out
of the obscurity, (they were deemed unworthy of belief) and launched a full
investigation, cleared the writings, gave them to the world and pronounced
Divine Mercy Sunday and the Chaplet.
Mary’s pope understood, perhaps mystically that his particular role,
that of Our Lady of Guadalupe was part of God’s plan to heal, protect and
evangelize the world once again.
Slide 20
Within the inner robes of the tilma lies the torso of the
crucified Jesus Christ with his heart pierced and the blood and water running
down the side. It is not subjective but
can be proved in several ways. One way
is the nahuatl glyphs themselves another is that the dimensions of the tilma
and the shroud are in exact proportion with one another. The divine mercy image is also proportionate
with the shroud. They not only align
over one another but they tell the same story when you do it. Right where the pierced heart of Jesus pours
out blood and water we see the line of deep red pigment (which Guadeloupian
scholars have all described as the color of blood) flowing down the side of the
three folds that extend just under the Nahuii Ollin and pooling into the Aztec
Fold. The same scholars say that the
shadows of pooling are not consistent with the lighting so they are unsure why
it pools in this way, but if we acknowledge it is blood and water it pools
exactly the way this liquid would. The
glyphs within this segment shout the truth of what is revealed. The stream of water and blood, which many of
us understand as the pierced heart of Jesus, the font of Mercy described by St.
Faustina, were given to us by Pope John Paul II, without His approval we would
not be venerating the image nor sharing the message of Divine Mercy in the
world. Right in the Wise Man glyph, at
the very corner of his mouth is where the blood and water begin their flow as
if to say Out of the mouth of the wise man, the man you know as Bishop with the
MITRE hat (again all approved understandings and translation by experts) that
this Pope spewing out of his mouth the font of Divine Mercy to the world.
It should be noted that the there are many more glyphs
within the tilma that back up this claim.
So we see an image of the love of the trinity and who God is through
that sign. If God so loved the world he
gave us his son, we see now with the crucified torso of Jesus with his heart
pierced and flowing out unto the precious treasure of the world, we see Jesus
loving the father in that he gives himself as a free, total and full gift,
faithfully and fruitfully back to the father.
The trinity is revealed here in this and for anyone having problems with
Mary seeing the torso of Jesus in this way may be a means of drawing him or her
into the fold. This part of the Icon has
as if an inner light that shines and radiates from the image. Anyone who lays eyes on the image would see
that there seems to be a light that illuminates from within this one area
making it to appear to be more radiant than the rest of the image.
Slide 21
The First Icons were in fact created using the Shroud of
Turn as the template so why would not God Himself speak through the language of
Iconography. It should be noted the
flower shaped glyph shapes on the shroud image in red. Some scholars have wondered why they look
“child like” but if you understand the Nahunta Glyphs and the connection of the
icon of the new eve (tilma) and the icon of the new Adam (shroud) it makes
perfect sense. Just as a man’s body
makes no sense by itself but only when understood in light of the
complementarity of a woman’s body and equal in dignity do we see an expression
of complementarity and that “male and female” he created them in His own image.
Slide 22
There even seems to appear beams of light that come of the
area on the surrounding area. This is
visible in most of the print images but even more so from Fr. Tim’s
images. He was granted special
permission to capture the image in an unprecedented way. Given full access to the image, to control
the lighting and to use high power digital photography, Fr. Tim as created over
40 detailed tiles that he then spliced together to create one very precise
image. It is said to be the most
accurate and detailed “photograph” of the image in existence and can be viewed
one tile at a time to see detailing within the image almost never seen before.
Just as an icon is written to reveal the Heavenly message and doorway that it is,
so too is this icon of OLG revealing that this is an icon, a doorway, theology
in color, a poor mans catechism. In a world where people seem to no longer be
able intellectually reason out faith, perhaps once more Heaven will speak
through an image but are we listening? This is not just a historical
document. This is an ongoing miracle
that is declaring itself to have a message for the Church in the age in which
the technology to discover the message would find it. Why, in an image where every detail means
something is no one asking why these details are being discovered using modern
technology? Why is no one asking, “Do you think Heaven is trying to tell us
something” I say yes, in fact it is being heralded.
Slide 23
The tilma is significant for many reasons. One it was simple cloth, made of cactus fiber,
a plant. It was traditional covering for
the Indians. It was a covering of the body that signified family affiliations
and sometimes-rank dependent upon its splendor.
This material was used in marriage ceremonies. The two would be tied together to signify
union between man and woman. It seems
this being chosen as the canvas is revealing that every person is significant,
that marriage is significant, that laity will be playing a significant role and
that that ceremony/ritual is significant and that God wants to tell us
something about all of these things.
TILMA; Tilma worn during marriage ceremonies, worn on the
body as a covering. Bridegroom and Bride are tied together as a symbol of their
union during ceremony of wedding. It also is used to carry children later, in
the fold, which is then tied around the waist of the person. The Tilma is worn
by average people therefore revealing that ALL are called to Union and
Communion. Two pieces of cloth were sewn together; in fact the center of this
cloth is the exact middle of the image. It is where two have become one. Two
pieces of cloth become one garment. This also brings dignity to male and female
he created them as marriage is only between a man and a woman. In the image, I
content the exact center of the tilma is also where the divine mercy image is
in the robe.
Slide 24 & 25 nothing
Slide 26
3. The Redemption of Man and Woman; The New Adam and The New
Eve
TILMA; Not only do the constellation's placed precisely over
her image where theological truths are conveyed, but she reveals that her
immaculate conception is woman fully participating in the redemption of man.
Just as Eve took of the apple and ate, so did Adam and so BOTH fell from the
glory of what God had intended for them. In God's plan for the redemption of
man, He could have done it by any means He saw fit, yet, He chose for the
participation of mankind, and begun so through a woman. Male and female He
created them, so would not God make it known that male and female they are redeemed?
If we are made in his image, male and female, then we see how beautiful it is
that before Christ takes His flesh from her; the merits of His sacrifice are
applied to her at the very moment of her conception. OLGuadalupe appears to St.
Juan Diego on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, linking this truth to the
image.
This truth is “written” in the constellation of Gemini over
her womb on the tilma. The twin
constellation reveals the splitting of flesh, the two coming from one as Adam
and Eve so too Mary and Jesus come from one flesh with His divine nature coming
from God alone. In Song of Songs the
love we are to have for one another is to be able to call our spouse our sister
and our bride. How does one love this
way? We love this way when the two become one flesh. We desire to love them for their own sake not
ours, we are family we are intimately connected and this is a foreshadowing of
our call to union and communion with God.
We were made by love, to love and for love and our destiny is to be with
God forever in Heaven.
Slide 27
The most used analogy of the bible is a wedding. It is the teaching of the relationship
between the bride and bridegroom that most accurately describes the
relationship God is calling us to. He is
calling us to the wedding feast. The first
miracle Jesus Performed was the Wedding Feast of Cana. This was for many
reasons one of which was to show us that He was giving us new wine. This new wine is the love of God poured out
for many. The sacred vessels used, the
water that was contained in them and the fact that the quality of the wine was
mentioned all point to God showing us that He is coming to restore and to make
New by giving us His love free from sin.
In the incarnation is a language of Love. In every faith that exists
EXCEPT Christianity the person must do something for God. IN Christianity, God came to us. Mary had it done unto her. She did nothing other than open herself in
love. The Song of Songs is the language
of the bride and the bridegroom when loving as sister my bride. The invitation of a gentle lover that Woo’s
his bride and does not force. The love
that remains faithful and gentle and merciful is shared with a world desperate
to understand what love is. The message
of the Song of Songs is in the tilma.
The flower glyphs even create a re-occurring melody when a pin is placed
within the flower’s center. The Indians
used flower clusters as poetry, music and prayer so of course once again, now
that we have technology to discover the music found within the image, we are
being re-invited to listen the message within the Song of Songs, the call to
marriage. Not just any marriage, the
call to union and communion with our almighty God in the wedding feast of
land. Will we be like the virgins that
prepared by gathering oil or will God say he does not know us? Knowing of
course is about intimacy and relationship (Mary knew not man). God of course knows all of us but we are
called to be in relationship. Mary is
reminding us of this.
Slide 28
She healed. She is
revealing a unique healing she desires to be a font of that will pour out onto
the world and from that font will be the Mercy of Jesus Christ. She is Our Lady of Mercy because she heralds
it in the glyphs, the iconography and the message. She is revealing that we are being attacked
and wounded in a threefold attack. What
is this attack? It is a demonic trinity.
Slide 29-30 nothing
Slide 31
She even stares into the eyes of the dragon as if to show us
she is going to do battle and that in her eyes she holds the family and the
Church. The truth to see will come from
being within her as if an ark to protect us from the coming siege. I believe Consecration to Mary through St.
Louis DE Montfort accomplishes this as a first step.
She then reveals that the dragon brings lies, division,
schism and confusion. It is important to
note that the big bear constellation and little bear constellation are under
the influence of the lies and divisions.
The Scorpion is an ancient evil force at work in the world
since the very beginning. In the bible
the serpent is referred to the great perverter and wounder. It wounds through perversion of
sexuality. It emasculates, it controls,
it is Jezebel, it is Lilith it is isis, Osiris and horis and it’s one desire is
to work with the liar to confuse our understanding of what it means to be a man
and woman and to create great woundedness so that we can not enter into God’s
plan of love and salvation.
The Serpent is the enemy that brings death. Spiritual death and physical death. Many Theologians and scholars of the Church
understand the great sacredness of blood.
God himself has made blood part of how he enters into sacred covenant
with His people and this has been done since the beginning of time. The enemy,
having no real power of his own, and uses what he knows as truth and follows,
in a legalistic way? The enemy presents
a lie “Did God really say you can’t eat from the tree of knowledge?” to bring
division, schism, distrust and doubt as to what is true. The next step is to pervert being made in the
image and likeness of God. The best way
to do this is through wounds. The enemy enters in through wounds. The most intimate to wound is through our
sexuality because it is intimately tied to our personhood. It is not just our bodies that are man and
woman, masculine or feminine it is also our very personhood. Physical abuse, mental abuse and verbal abuse
are all means to create wounds but sexual abuse is the most intimate and deep
cutting wound because is creates a chasm between us and our creator because our
purpose and identity becomes distorted. Not to mention the sacrementality of
the body. The enemy realizes this and
desires to create his own demonic sacraments using blood. Sexual abuse and abortion, prostitution,
murder all spill blood and so they create a contract and a means of gaining a toehold,
a foothold a stronghold in our lives.
When we agree with the lies and submit our will saying “I am unloved, no
one will ever love me, I am alone, I will always be alone” we of our own free
will turn from God inwards making false idols that are presented to us. This
creates a network of wounding that Mary desires to reveal so that we can be
made fully whole. She is coming to restore the Church. She is revealing and
shining light on the darkness and she is bringing a grace of supernatural
healing, protection and perhaps an even “hiding” from the evil one as we
work. She is receptivity and so being in
the presence of this image painted by the finger of God of Mary onto the tilma
is a divinely “written” and created image.
If she is pure receptivity, openness fertile ground then perhaps a grace
of receptivity flows from the image and touches all in its presence through the
doorway of the icon. The teachings of
the church are that Icons are spiritual doorways. Doors move two ways. We can both enter in and God can come to
us. She is coming to expose the enemy so
that we can be healed. Like St. Ignatius
says, we are to be filled not for our sakes but so that we can overflow onto
those around us. We have been leaking out the graces we are receiving through
the cracks and crevices the evil one has made in the form that God created us
into being. Some of us are chalices called to be a life of sacrifice, some of
us are Reeds, hallowed out and emptied so the Holy Spirit can play lyrically
through our lives some of us are like a birds nest hallowed out by the loving
tenderness of family life and love. In
each of the forms we are it is our perfect form. When we embrace the emptiness through
vulnerability and turning outwards toward God and away from the lies and false
idols, she will pour a healing salve into our form and seal the places we are
leaking. We then will be able to be
filled to overflowing so that we may bring a drink to others who thirst. We are
called to be tabernacles, to the hands and feet upon which to bring Christ to a
wounded world and she is showing us the way and the how. If you have anger issues, your issue is not
anger it is an idolatry of control as a means to protect the root of the wound,
which is usually an abandonment wound.
If you have lust issues, the issue is not the lust in fact it is called
a distress symptom. It is the neon sign
and God’s mercy is trying to get your attention to point you to a place you may
have come in agreement with the enemy with a lie that is of your own free will
preventing you from finding freedom in this area in your life. The idolatry found connected to lust is
relationship. When we distrust God we turn
to others or a relationship to make us feel whole. Why? Because we are protecting the real root
of the wound which is a rejection issue.
“No one loves me, I am ugly, disgusting, repulsive” If we agree with the
lie the enemy proposes he has permission to infest or perhaps even oppress us. He stirs up our fears and emotions and presents
more lies (distorted thoughts). Some may
turn to pornography, promiscuity, a spouse or other to fill the void to quiet
the voice of feeling unworthy and unloved because they do not see they have
turned inward instead of outward. We,
all of us are failing to see that the first commandment is the one the enemy is
using over and over to attack us. He
proposes that we must turn to ourselves.
He proposes we are only animals, He proposes there is no God. Mary comes expose the liar, bring truth, healing
and once again evangelize the world as to who God is and what the incarnation
means to us as well as prepare the world for Jesus once again. She is the ark.
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It begins with consecration.
It continues with you placing this image in your own home, perhaps next
to an image of Divine Mercy. Through the
image, she seems to be saying she will pour out a gift of receptivity so that
as the Holy Spirit is pouring out Graces upon the world in preparation for
Jesus to come again, we will not only be able to retain them and utilize them
we will be able to bring a portion to others.
Her mantle is often referred to as a protection for the faithful, to
hide us there in the crossing of her arms, within her mantle. She seems to be inviting us to step into the
folds and hide from the enemy and to allow her to do the battle with the dragon
as she will crush the serpent.
Our Lady Of Guadalupe; An Icon of Life, Love and The New Evangelization from
Christina King
sources include but are not limited to the following books:
I would also like to share that I personally hand delivered my research to the Secretary of Cardinal Burke when we was visiting the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse. He was the Bishop of the Diocese I grew up in and he helped me to become a speaker by allowing me to speak throughout his Diocese and writing me a letter of recommendation. He reviewed my work and wrote to me from Rome asking me to go see Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner at the Shrine. Fr. Fehlner reviewed my work and offered me two of the books you see below to help me continue my research.
