Pause with me for a moment, can you imagine what it would be like to see nine million people turn to Christ in just ten years? To watch an entire culture shift from darkness to light, from human sacrifice to the worship of the God of love?
Missionaries had labored in Mexico for two decades with little fruit. Then, Mary appeared at Tepeyac and everything changed. Within a decade, the Mexican people—nine million strong—embraced Christianity. Can you imagine the astonishment, the joy, the sheer wonder of such a transformation?
Who could accomplish such a victory? Who could defeat the powers of death and bring forth a culture of life? Not Peter, not Paul, not Patrick, not Francis Xavier. It was Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Mother who bore Christ to the world, who converted Mexico. Today we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
And now the question turns to us: will we, too, bear Jesus into our culture today? Will we join her in announcing the God of Israel, the God of Jesus Christ, the God of nonviolence and forgiving love? The world still waits for conversion. The world still longs for Him.
Smitten With Goodness 