Our Lady of Guadalupe

“Mary of Guadalupe is a powerful symbol of hope. … She is a reminder that no matter how hard life is, God does not abandon us.”

Mexican church and civic officials have canceled public feast celebrations for Mexico’s patroness, Our Lady of Guadalupe, at her shrine in Mexico City due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, millions mark the day with pilgrimages, especially to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, with songs and festivities at their local parishes, and, of course, with the Holy Mass.

San Franciscans celebrated the recently commissioned “Mass of the Americas” Dec. 8 for the feasts of the Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Guadalupe at the archdiocese’s Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patron saint of Mexico, the United States and all of the Americas. She is the protector of unborn children and […]

Marginalized people in today’s world are often made to feel worthless by conditions imposed upon them, the pope said in his homily during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Dec. 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

In the past 20 years, the Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic Church in the United States has added at least four new feast days, namely for three 20th-century martyred bishops — Blesseds Paul Gojdich, July 17, Basil Hopko, July 23, and Theodore Romzha, Oct. 31 — and one feast dedicated to the mother of God, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dec. 12.

Nearly 500 years after Mexican peasant Juan Diego was greeted by Mary and urged to share a message of hope and comfort as promised by God’s compassion, Our Lady of Guadalupe continues to inspire new generations of faithful believers in their daily routines and struggles.