Prayer to the Empress of America

The Virgin of Guadalupe has aroused great devotion since her apparitions on Tepeyac hill to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, in the year 1531. His portrait, which was engraved on the young indigenous man’s tilma (tunic), shows a sweet and maternal virgin who has a beautiful mestizo face. when declared patron saint or empress of Latin Americaatinahe is prayed for peace between peoples and the protection of indigenous populations.

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Prayers to the Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico and empress of America

Prayer I

“Blessed Mother of Guadalupe. Mother of jesus,

lead us to your divine son on the path of the gospel,

so that our life may be the generous fulfillment of God’s will. Lead us to Jesus, who reveals himself to us and gives himself to us in the revealed word and in the bread of the Eucharist.

Give us a firm faith, a supernatural hope, an ardent charity and a living fidelity.

to our baptized vocation. Help us to be grateful to God, demanding of ourselves and full of love for our brothers. Amen.”

Prayer II

“Santa María de Guadalupe, always symbol and architect of this fusion that would form the Mexican nationality and, in expansion charged with meanings, would go beyond borders to offer the world that magnificent choir of peoples who pray in Spanish.

First mother and patron saint of Mexico, then of America and the Philippines: the historical meaning of her message was thus gaining fullness, while she opened her arms to all horizons in a universal longing for love.

It opens the soul to hope when in that same continent it is being studied and put into practice to raise the standard of living of human peoples. We applaud the initiatives aimed at procuring personnel prepared for the apostolate in countries with few clergy or religious who wish to sustain their faith and continue the saving mission of the Church.

Here you have Mary, the common Mother, since she is the mother of Christ, who with her care and maternal compassion has contributed to the return of divine and supernatural life to us, who in the person of the beloved disciple was given to us as mother spiritually by Christ himself on the cross.

Hail mother of America! Celestial missionary of the new world, who from the sanctuary of Tepeyac has been, for more than four centuries, Mother and teacher in the faith of the peoples of America. Also be her shelter and save them oh immaculate Mary; it assists its rulers, instills a new zeal in its prelates, increases the virtues of the clergy; and she always keeps faith in the people.

May Mary hear these wishes so that she may present them to Christ in whose name and with the deepest affection of our fatherly heart we bless you. Amen.”

John XXIII, 1961

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