O Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, grant to our homes the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings, with the same love with which you conceived in your womb the life of the Son of God. Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Fair Love, protect our families so that they may always be united
and bless the upbringing of our children.
Our hope, look upon us with pity,
teach is to go continually to Jesus,
and if we fall help us to rise again and return to Him through the confession of our faults and our sins in the Sacrament of penance,
which gives peace to the soul.
We beg you to grant us a great love
of all the holy Sacraments, which are, as it were, the signs that your Son left us on earth. Thus, Most Holy Mother, with the peace of God in our consciences, with our hearts free from evil and hatred, we will be able to bring to all others true joy and peace, which come to us from your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
who with the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Pope Benedict XIV granted the Most Holy Virgin of Guadalupe her own Mass and Office to be celebrated annually on December 12th, with a decree signed by the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation of Rites on April 24, 1754.
Our Lady came to offer faith, hope an consolation to the oppressed natives of Mexico and to reconcile then with their Spanish rulers. She put an end to the bloody human sacrifice of the Aztecs and converted ten million natives in the next 10 years!
The Image of Our Lady is actually an Aztec Pictograph that was read and interpreted quickly by the Aztec Indians: