December 12, 2017

"Am I not here, I, who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need something more?"

—The words of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill, Mexico, in December 1531. Today is the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patroness of the Americas.