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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> today we celebrate the great feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. What
followed the apparition of Mary at Tepeyac is one of the most astounding
chapters in the history of Christian evangelism.</b></span><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Though Franciscan missionaries had been
laboring in Mexico for twenty years, they </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>had made little progress. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>But <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">within ten years</span></span>
of the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe, practically the entire
Mexican people, nine million strong, had converted to Christianity.</b></span> <em style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px">La Morena</em>
had proved a more effective evangelist than St. Peter, St. Paul, St.
Patrick, and St. Francis Xavier combined! <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>And with that great national
conversion, the Aztec <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">practice of human sacrifice </span>came to an end. She
had done battle with <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">fallen spirits </span>and had won a culture-changing
victory for the God of love.</b></span><br></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start">The
challenge for us who honor her today is to join the same fight. We must
announce to our culture today the truth of the God of Israel, the God
of Jesus Christ, the God of
nonviolence and forgiving love. And we ought, like <em style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px">La Morena</em>, to be bearers of Jesus to <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">a world that </span>needs him more than ever.</span></b></span></span></div>
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