#Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

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THE DESCRIPTION OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE The Queen of Mexico, the Patroness of the Americas, the Patroness of the Unborn and the Celestial Patroness of the Philippines Feast Day: December 12

"¿No estoy yo aquí que soy tu madre?" ("Am I not here, I who am your mother?")

Guadalupe (La Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo) is a locality in Mexico where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin in December 12, 1531.

At dawn on the ninth of December, on his way to the church, he heard a lovely sound of birds and a gentle woman's voice calling him: 'Juan Diego… Juanito!'

Looking up the Tepeyac hill, he saw Mary shining like the sun and stepping over precious stones. She said to him: 'It is my earnest wish that a church be built here, where I could show all my love, compassion, help and protection.'

Immediately, Juan Diego reported the message to the bishop (Don Juan de Zumárraga y Arrazola), who did not believe.

In his distress, Juan Diego went back to the hill of the apparition and said to the Blessed Mother: 'My sweet lady, please, give this task to an important person, that he might believe, because I am so little and poor.'

Mary replied: 'My little child, tomorrow, go again to the bishop, and tell him that it was I who sent you.'

Juan Diego obeyed, and this time, the bishop asked for a sign.

Again, Mary appeared to Juan Diego, and told him to wrap all the roses he could find on the hill in a mantle (tilmàtli or tilmà), and to present them to the bishop. Then, as he opened the mantle to show the roses to the bishop, the miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared on it. Thus, the bishop decided to build a church in the place of the apparitions, where he installed the miraculous mantle with great honor.

Our Lady of Guadalupe became so popular that she was declared the Patroness of the Americas. Pope Pius XI declared Our Lady of Guadalupe as the 'Heavenly Patroness of the Philippines' on July 16, 1935, signed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (later rescinded).

Due to Mary's appearance as a pregnant mother and her claims as mother of all in the apparition, the Blessed Virgin Mary, under this title is popularly invoked as the 'Patroness of the Unborn' and a common image for the Pro-Life movement.

Context made by yours truly.

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Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

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[cristinabcn]

EDITORIAL: NUESTRA SEÑORA DE GUADALUPE.

Ramon Morcillo López. Dr. en Psicología, Lcdo. en Filosofía y Ciencias de la Educación. Escritor Prensa Especializada Quiero no dejar pasar este mes tan mariano -Inmaculada, Guadalupe y Natividad- sin hablar sobre Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, que tantos milagros ha dado a la cristiandad y en particular a la España peninsular, americana y somos muchos los que desconocemos su conexión. I want not…

[r-bonilla]

Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

[chicosanchez]

Durante casi quince años trabajé para la realización de mi libro de fotografía México Guadalupano. Si quieres guardar una copia de este libro histórico ya puedes conseguirlo en la principales librerías de México y también directamente de la editorial entrando en: https://www.ameditores.com Para más información: https://chicosanchez.com

Gracias por compartir

[thatwritererinoriordan]

Update:

[thesundanceghost]

Love seeing songs on dyke playlists that are just obviously 100% about the Virgin Mary

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Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

El Templo del Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, ubicado en el emblemático Barrio de Guadalupe en Aguascalientes, es una joya arquitectónica y cultural que refleja siglos de historia, arte y devoción religiosa. Esta edificación católica comenzó a construirse en 1767 bajo la dirección del reconocido arquitecto Felipe de Ureña, culminando su primera etapa en 1789. Desde sus orígenes, el…

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2021 - Mexico - Morelia - Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe - 2 of 2 by Ted McGrath Via Flickr: A visit to Morelia should include the interior of Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. The art work on the walls and ceiling dating from 1915 are beautiful. Two shots, this one looking up to the nave ceiling under a light fixture. Construction of the temple began in 1708, was completed in 1716, and dedicated to the worship of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The transept and the presbytery of the temple were enlarged in 1777, and by October 1785 it underwent a restoration process, under direction of Fray Antonio de San Miguel. The most significant changes in the shape of the temple occurred in the 20th century: from 1907 to 1913 its interior was decorated with fired and polychrome clay, forming flower-shaped sculptures. It is the work of craftsman Joaquín Orta. The church is another of the reasons why Morelia was listed as a World Heritage site in 1991.

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Capilla de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, en Encarnación de Díaz, estado de Jalisco. México.

Capilla de estilo neoclásico.

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Imagen del Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, en Guadalajara, Jal. México.

Ca. 1900.

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Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

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"Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, ¡Ruega por Nosotros!"

 📷 Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe / © sedmak via #GettyImages. #Catholic_Priest #CatholicPriestMedia

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911 fans do understand that someone doesn’t need to be devout to still be Catholic, right? They don’t have to be actively practicing or a staunch practitioner to still be a believer and, crucially, culturally Catholic, something which will influence their lived reality and worldview.

Sure, Eddie Diaz has been far from the most devout Catholic and he has frequently been portrayed as the least likely member of the 118 to believe in the supernatural. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t believe in God or honor the Saints or practice casually. Nor does it make Catholicism any less influential in his life. He might be the type of guy who’s a “Chreaster” (Christmas + Easter Christian; a.k.a. A “submarine Christian), but that doesn’t mean Catholicism is any less influential on his upbringing, lived reality, or worldview. In fact, it has deeply impacted how he views his place in the world as a man and even how he views other people’s place in the world relative to him as a man.

More on this below:

Cultural Catholicism— specifically Mexican Catholicism— is why Eddie hallucinated his former girlfriend as THEE Madonna. But not just any Virgin Mary, she looked to him like Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Tepeyac. The Catholic influence on his upbringing has had a large impact on how he views manhood, womanhood, and the relationship between the two. This Catholic influence, combined with the influences of the patriarchy in Mexican culture, like machismo, has led him to view women in the role of carer instead of partner. It’s why he seems to “use” his girlfriends as glorified babysitters. It’s why it seems he’s been looking for a woman to simply “take the place” as Chris’ “new mom,” instead of find someone he enjoys life with. It’s part of why he has a hard time getting it up or keeping it up when he’s in a loving and respectful relationship with a woman. It’s part of why he could only fuck around with Shannon when she wasn’t filling the role of “mother” for Chris, but once he let her back into Chris’ life, she ceased to be his wife and then became “the mother of my son” (see: the beach scene). He keeps falling into the trap of sorting women into either the Madonna archetype or the Whore archetype, yet people aren’t really talking about WHO he views as the Madonna, HOW he views the Madonna, or fucking WHY.

As @/talktonytome mentioned, it is the cultural influences in his life and the absence of his father that have taught him what “being a man” means. He was expected to assume the role of “provider” from a young age. He was forced to grow up fast, literally parentified by his paterfamilias. His own father told him that he had to assume the role of the “man of the family” as a child, and yet would continue to exert an incredible degree of influence and control over Eddie’s life course and decisions, as Eddie, Shannon, and Chris were completely financially dependent on Eddie’s parents (and dependent on them for child care). This dependency fostered an hostile and toxic dynamic. On top of this, he was literally just a kid when he got his girlfriend—who was also just a kid—pregnant. He believed that he and Shannon *had* to make it work for their kid and that they both *had* to “step-up” and “do it right” by getting married, despite literally being teens. There are reasons why babies should never feel pressured to or be forced to have a baby.

Because of his father, Eddie comes to believe that a “real man” devotes his all to his wife and kid, never abandoning them and always providing for them, unlike his own father. Which is why Eddie has spent every waking moment since moving to LA trying to make up for a life choice that he truly believes meant he abandoned his family: joining, and then reenlisting, in the army. “I ran out first. I ran out on both of them. … Instead of going back home, I reenlisted. I told myself it was to pay the bills—” “But you were running away too.” “Yeah…” It was all overwhelming because he wasn’t ready, so he sought an escape. He felt trapped by his circumstances and his family and saw only one “legitimate” route out: joining the army. He was then forced to grow up more by the force-arm of the (equally authoritarian) masculinist state: the United States Military. And this institution would continue to reinforce aspects of machismo that he’d learned through his father. Showing fear, pain, or grief makes you weak. Turn off your instinct to cry, embrace stoicism, and push through with any weapon you’ve got; it’ll award you accommodation.

This is also why he has spent every day since Shannon died punishing himself. He believes he abandoned her. He believes he failed her. He wasn’t able to devote his all to her. He couldn’t provide and he couldn’t make it work. All of this makes him a failed man in his mind. A failed husband and a failed dad and a poor excuse of a man.

Cultural Catholicism was also part of the reason for the familial and societal pressure to marry that he experienced as a teen after getting his girlfriend pregnant. It does, in fact, contribute to the social pressure to be partnered. And not *just* partnered, married. Through the church. There actually *IS* a reason Eddie’s mind immediately jumped to “marriage” when Tía Pepa set him up on a blind date. There is genuine pressure in Latiné families not just to be partnered, but to get married. Tía Pepa ambushed him with a date because it “breaks [her] heart to see [him] alone” and she’s afraid of him being alone forever. And she told him this immediately after bringing up how Alicia is getting married soon, and how Rafael, Fernando, and Liliana are all having kids. She might say “¿Que marriage? Who said anything about marriage?” (immediately after bringing up marriage, mind you) or “Let me introduce you to—” or “You need to get back out there—” now, but it will be “When are you getting married?” and “When are you having kids?” later. Being alone is stigmatized. Not getting married is stigmatized. Having a kid out of wedlock is stigmatized. And the thing is? Your parents and family don’t even have to be devout practitioners themselves to still contribute to this social pressure. Hell, you don’t have to be a devout practitioner to still believe any of it. Like Eddie hasn’t been the most devout and yet the seal of St. Christopher still holds a great deal of meaning to him.

Eddie doesn’t know who he is outside of being a provider. He’s never had the opportunity to discover himself. He went from being a kid to being a husband and father over the course of nine months. He then quickly went from a military career to being a single father in a new city, finally under his own roof at the age of about 28+. He never went on a long meandering road trip across the US and several countries in a quest to “find himself.” He never went to college where he’d experience new friend groups and ideologies. He has been under the thumb of authority or expectation since he was a teen. He’s never been alone.

So, how does he now find himself when he can no longer be what he’s long defined himself by?

[asdro]

Today a college friend told us about her dad and the fact he is legally female while being a cisgender man.

Basically his name is Guadalupe (we are mexican), Guadalupe is the name of...

Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe), a catholic figure well known and worshipped in Mexico.

Basically his grandma (his dad's mom) begged Guadalupe to give her a child, she told the saint that she'd name then Guadalupe no matter if they were a boy or a girl.

So the dad is born and they go to register him as Guadalupe, the lady doing the paperwork didn't really asked what the child was and assumed they must be a girl because of the name (Guadalupe is actually kind of an unisex name btw, lol) and registered him as female.

And the dad just lives like that, most of his paperwork just lists him as female and until recently he didn't had any issues about that, lately he's been changing his papers because of an specific document he needs but basically:

• Dad is legally female.

• Dad and mom are legally lesbians.

• My classmate legally has two moms.