{"id":200984,"date":"2024-12-12T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.fundacioncarf.org\/?p=200984"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:39:49","slug":"virgen-de-guadalupe-y-los-misterios-de-su-tilma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fundacioncarf.org\/en\/virgen-de-guadalupe-y-los-misterios-de-su-tilma\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Josemar\u00eda: filial love"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Virgin of Guadalupe is one of the greatest treasures of our Catholic faith in Latin America. Her figure transcends time as a symbol of consolation, hope and cultural union. Her image, miraculously imprinted on the tilma of St. Juan Diego in 1531, holds mysteries that continue to fascinate the faithful and scientists alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But before we get to know the mysteries of the tilma of Juan Diego, we go back to the 20th century to recall that in May 1970, St. Josemar\u00eda Escriv\u00e1 traveled to Mexico<\/a> with a fervent desire: praying before the Virgin of Guadalupe in the old Basilica.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"I have come to see our Lady of Guadalupe, and by the way to see you,\" he announced to his children in his first greetings. St. Josemar\u00eda's deep devotion led him to spend hours in prayer before the \"Little Virgin of Tepeyac,\" to whom he addressed words full of love:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"I offer you a future of love, with many souls..... Waves of souls, all over the world and at all times, determined to give themselves to your Son and to the service of others.\"<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

St. Josemar\u00eda and Our Lady of Guadalupe: a filial yearning<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

During his visit, he prayed for the Church, the Pope and Opus Dei with great and filial confidence. In a conversation with Cardinal Miguel Dario Miranda, he had even humorously expressed his desire: \"when I am in front of her, they won't even take me out of the sanctuary with a crane\". <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recalling the circumstances of that outburst of filial affection for Our Lady, Msgr. Javier Echevarr\u00eda<\/a> -who accompanied him on the trip, wrote twenty-five years later: \"I would dare to assure him - I heard him say it on several occasions - that Our Lady forced him to undertake that penitential pilgrimage, because she wanted him to ask her intercession there, at the feet of that brown image, in favor of the world, of the Church, and of this small portion of the Church, which is Opus Dei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Escriv\u00e1 had a deep affection for the Guadalupana, reflected even in the details of his daily life. In his office in Rome<\/a> always had a picture of her, witness to his countless prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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