Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Something similar takes place in the account of the appearance of the Virgin Mother to Juan Diego on Mount Tepeyac. When the woman whose clothing shines like the sun introduces herself, she says, “I am truly the ever perfect Holy Virgin Mary.” Then her words shift to God almost entirely, “…who has the honor to be the Mother of the one true God for whom we all live, the Creator of people, the Lord of all around us and of what is close to us…” And when she explains the purpose of the shrine which she is requesting, it is solely to give glory to God. She says, “In (my sacred little house) I will show Him, I will exalt Him upon making Him manifest, I will give Him to all people in all my personal love.”
We venerate Our Lady of Guadalupe today because she has given us Jesus Christ, the God-man who has saved us from our sins. She brought him into the world for us, of course. But even more than that, she has given him to us by exemplifying how we are to live with him as the center of our life.