Para venir al mundo, Dios quiso contar con la libre cooperación de una criatura, María, para que fuera madre de su Hijo, por la acción del Espíritu Santo. Y la Iglesia, desde sus inicios, honra a María como hija de Dios Padre, madre de Dios Hijo, esposa de Dios Espíritu Santo. ¿Cómo eligió Dios a María? ¿Cómo fue la concepción del Hijo de Dios? ¿Por qué llamamos a María, Virgen y Madre?

Los Cristianos en cambio, siempre han tenido un gran interés en relacionar a María y a Jesús a la Biblia y tradición Hebreas, aunque de un modo que no es apreciado por los Judíos, pues María y Jesús iban a remplazar las cosas tenidas por más sagradas por los Israelitas. María iba a ser la nueva arca de la alianza, Jesús el nuevo templo. Ambos iban a encarnar la Sabiduría de Dios descrita en la Biblia Hebrea. La Madre de Dios Cristiana y la Diosa Madre Judía

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The Philippines regained full sovereignty from the United States on 4 July 1946, with the establishment of the Third Philippine Republic. Almost two years later on 12 January 1948 (the 200th anniversary of the death of the foundress) Pope Pius XII issued the Decree of Definitive Pontifical Approbation of the Constitutions, placing the congregation directly under Rome. Pedro Vidal, Consultor for the Society of Jesus in the Sacred Congregation of Religious, represented the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary at the signing of the decree in 1948. Archbishop of Zamboanga Luís del Rosario, SJ then serving as Apostolic Visitator of the congregation, played a vital role in the process which led to the granting of the final decree. [4] Hoy la Iglesia, como una gran familia, se congrega para celebrar, festejar y agasajar a María. Un día propicio para dar gracias a Dios por el nacimiento de la Madre de su Hijo y, por ello, Madre nuestra. Jesús es el Hijo único de María. Pero la maternidad espiritual de María se extiende (cf. Jn 19, 26-27; Ap 12, 17) a todos los hombres a los cuales Él vino a salvar: "Dio a luz al Hijo, al que Dios constituyó el Primogénito entre muchos hermanos (Rm 8,29), es decir, de los creyentes, a cuyo nacimiento y educación colabora con amor de madre". Pope Benedict XIV — in the papal bull Non est Equidem of May 25, 1754, declared Our Lady of Guadalupe patroness of what was then named "New Spain", corresponding to Spanish Central and Northern America, and included liturgical texts for the Catholic Mass and the Roman Breviary in her honor. According to the Nican Mopohua, included in the 17th-century Huei tlamahuiçoltica, written in Nahuatl, the Virgin Mary appeared four times to Juan Diego, a Chichimec peasant, and once to his uncle, Juan Bernardino. The first apparition occurred on the morning of Saturday, December 9, 1531 ( Julian calendar, which is December 19 on the (proleptic) Gregorian calendar in present use). Juan Diego experienced a vision of a young woman at a place called the Hill of Tepeyac, which later became part of Villa de Guadalupe, in a suburb of Mexico City. [3]

Si tú y yo hubiéramos tenido poder, la hubiéramos hecho también Reina y Señora de todo lo creado. Una gran señal apareció en el cielo: una mujer con corona de doce estrellas sobre su cabeza. —Vestido de sol. —La luna a sus pies. (Apoc., XII, 1.) María, Virgen sin mancilla, reparó la caída de Eva: y ha pisado, con su planta inmaculada, la cabeza del dragón infernal. Hija de Dios, Madre de Dios, Esposa de Dios. Santo Rosario, quinto misterio glorioso. These published accounts of the origin of the image already venerated in Tepeyac, then increased interest in the identity of Juan Diego, who was the original recipient of the prime vision. A new Catholic Basilica church was built to house the image. Completed in 1709, it is now known as the Old Basilica. [50] The crown ornament [ edit ] Virgen de Guadalupe con las cuatro apariciones by Juan de Sáenz (Virgin of Guadalupe with the four apparitions by Juan de Sáenz), c. 1777, at the Museo Soumaya [51]

La Asunción de Nuestra Señora nos propone la realidad de esa esperanza gozosa. Somos aún peregrinos, pero Nuestra Madre nos ha precedido y nos señala ya el término del sendero: nos repite que es posible llegar y que, si somos fieles, llegaremos. Porque la Santísima Virgen no sólo es nuestro ejemplo: es auxilio de los cristianos. Y ante nuestra petición —Monstra te esse Matrem-, no sabe ni quiere negarse a cuidar de sus hijos con solicitud maternal. Es Cristo que pasa, 177 The figure stands on an upturned crescent moon, which was allegedly once silver in colour, and is now relatively dark. A feathered cherubic angel with outstretched arms carries the corners of her robe underneath her exposed feet. A sunburst of straight and wavy gold rays are projected behind her and around her and are enclosed within a mandorla. Beyond the mandorla to the right and left is an unpainted expanse, white in color with a faint blue tinge. At that time historians revived doubts as to the quality of the evidence regarding Juan Diego. The writings of bishop Zumárraga, into whose hands Juan purportedly delivered the miraculous image, did not refer to him or the event. The record of the 1556 ecclesiastical inquiry omitted him, and he was not mentioned in documentation before the mid-17th century. In 1996 the 83-year-old abbot of the Basilica of Guadalupe, Guillermo Schulenburg, was forced to resign following an interview published in the Catholic magazine Ixthus, in which he was quoted as saying that Juan Diego was "a symbol, not a reality", and that his canonization would be the "recognition of a cult. It is not recognition of the physical, real existence of a person." [57] In 1883 Joaquín García Icazbalceta, historian and biographer of Zumárraga, in a confidential report on the Lady of Guadalupe for Bishop Labastida, had been hesitant to support the story of the vision. He concluded that Juan Diego had not existed. [58] According to the document Informaciones Jurídicas de 1666, a Catholic feast day in name of Our Lady of Guadalupe was requested and approved, as well as the transfer of the date of the feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe from September 8 to December 12, the latest date on which the Virgin supposedly appeared to Juan Diego. The initiative to perform them was made by Francisco de Siles who proposed to ask the Church of Rome, a Mass itself with allusive text to the apparitions and stamping of the image, along with the divine office itself, and the precept of hearing a Catholic Mass on December 12, the last date of the apparitions of the Virgin to Juan Diego as the new date to commemorate the apparitions (which until then was on September 8, the birth of the Virgin). [47]