Pope celebrates Mass for Feast of Our Lady of
Guadalupe
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Monday
evening in St. Peter’s Basilica for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe,
patroness of the Americas.
In his homily for the celebration, Pope Francis reflected on
how the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe reminds us that we are not orphans,
saying she teaches us to look on our brothers and sisters with her eyes full of
love.
The Holy Father said, “We must certainly learn from [her]
receptive and servile faith… learn from this faith which knows how to insert
itself within history to be salt and light in our lives and in our societies.”
In contrast, he lamented the current direction of human
society, which he said is “ever more marked by signs of division,” calling it
“a society of distrust”.
“A society which likes to boast of its scientific and
technological advances but which has turned a blind and insensitive eye to the
thousands of faces which get lost on the way, excluded by the blinding pride of
a few.”
The Holy Father said, “Our beloved American continent has
grown accustomed to seeing thousands and thousands of children and young people
on the street, begging and sleeping in train stations or wherever they find
space… And they feel that there is no space for them on the ‘train of life’”.
He said, “In the face of these situations, we need to say
with Elizabeth: ‘Blessed are you because you believed’, and learn from this
receptive and servile faith which characterized and characterizes our Mother.”
The Pope went on to say the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
reminds us we have a mother.
“Celebrating Mary is, above all, to remember our Mother, to
remember that we are not and never will be an orphan people. We have a
Mother!... And where there is the Mother, brothers may quarrel but a sense of
unity will always prevail.”
Pope Francis concluded by saying Mary’s faith led her to
love and serve.
“Celebrating Mary’s memory is to celebrate that we, like
her, are called to get up and go towards others with the same vision, with her
same bands of mercy, with her same gestures.”
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