One person asked her why she doesn’t come back to Mexico. She said, “I’ve never left.”(Smarthistory)[/caption]
Father Joseph Illo, pastor of Star of the Sea parish in San Francisco, gave a 14-minute homily on Gaudete Sunday, December 15.
Gaudete is imperative in Latin. We must be happy, eveif we are unhappy. “Your kindness shall be known to all.”
Even the tax collectors and Roman soldiers are coming to John the Baptist. They all ask him, what should we do? He says if you have two cloaks give one away. If you want to receive, you must give.
Christmas is that time for giving. Not 20 presents under the tree for your one or two children. You must give from the bottom.
Our Lady of Guadalupe – why did Our Lady come to that part of the world at that time? The Spaniards had come 10 years earlier. The indigenous people were locked into struggle with them. It was a war nobody was going to win. And a mother from heaven shows up. She says “I am the mother of the one true God by whom all things live. All of you are my children.” She’s dark, but part of the Old World. She’s with child but she’s the Immaculate Conception. 17 million indigenous converted; there was much intermarriage after this.
(Excerpt: “It was a war nobody was going to win. And a mother from heaven shows up. She says I am the mother of the one true God by whom all things live. All of you are my children.”)
Mary is the cause of our joy. One person asked her why she doesn’t come back to Mexico. She said, “I’ve never left.” There is a presence of Mary in Mexico like nowhere else.
Please come after Mass to the exhibit on Eucharistic miracles. There are still white blood corpuscles on the vessels of these miracles.
Except now Latin America is leaving Catholicism. Children of Mexican immigrants are leaving the Church. Our Lady of Guadalupe is far more about being Mexican for many Mexicans than it has anything to do with being Catholic.
Refer to this note from the Diocese of San Jose about how a Guadalupe celebration at a parish got out of hand with uninvited food vendors crashing the party. It was not about Catholic faith; it was about being Mexican and selling and eating Mexican food.
https://www.dsj.org/diocese-of-san-jose-clarifies-role-in-vendor-permitting-during-our-lady-of-guadalupe-celebration/
Also note how woke and business-like the notice is. The Diocese of San Jose has become a corporation satisfying people’s community, neighborly, civic needs. It’s no longer about faith. The Diocese of San Jose is a dumpster fire.
So sad.
All major Catholic feast days, such of the Immaculate Conception, Christmas and so forth often have food on the church grounds. It is wise to have vendors from health inspected businesses, or have parishioners bring store bought or fast food bought items to avoid people getting sick from food contamination. If the food is made on the church grounds, cooks need to wear hairnets or have their hair tied up and take other precautions to avoid spoiled food. I can see why the diocese is concerned about this.
But the diocese is not concerned at all about the lack of Catholic instruction at Archbishop Mitty High School, the pro-abortion president of the school and the pro-gay faculty and student body.
Our Lady of Guadalupe pray for us.
If Guadalupe and Mexico are so great, then why do they all want to come to America illegally? We’re a deist country, not a Christian one. I’ll tell you why: it’s the dollar. The dollar is more important than Guadalupe. The mass migration pilgrimage motivated by the dollar dwarfs the pilgrimages for Guadalupe.
You, too, would go anywhere you could, if you were desperately poor and starving, and motivated to find a job — and even do back-breaking, hard work, for low pay, that Anglos in the USA won’t readily do– to survive on this earth. Mexico has always been a very ecinomically-deprived country. There are both good and bad people on both sides of the border. Of course, all should obey the law. Respect the holy Virgin of Guadalupe. And always follow her Son, Jesus. Do as He says. You are blessed to live in a good country with much more, economically, than the rest of the world.