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    Our Lady of Guadalupe: Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom
    Our Lady of Guadalupe: Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom
    Our Lady of Guadalupe: Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom
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    Our Lady of Guadalupe: Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom

    By Sounds True

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    Our Lady of Guadalupe takes you to a time when a modest Aztec peasant had a vision of a radiant woman "clothed in the sun." This divine presence began to emerge as a union between Mary of Christianity and the Mother Goddess of the native people. As her legend swept across the crumbling Aztec empire, she inspired millions of followers to peacefully embrace a changing world.

    Today, the beloved Lady of Guadalupe still acts as a benevolent, merciful force to help us rise above strife and violence. For those times when we are called to engage in compassionate yet decisive action, it is the force of the divine feminine embodied by Our Lady of Guadalupe that can guide our path.

    With poetry, prayers, and art gathered together by editor Mirabai Starr, Our Lady of Guadalupe gives you a powerful link to this blessed mother, and to the loving and righteous grace of her sacred energy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSounds True
    Release dateMar 1, 2008
    ISBN9781591798354
    Our Lady of Guadalupe: Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom

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      Our Lady of Guadalupe - Sounds True

      Publisher’s Note

      Sounds True’s Devotions, Prayers, and Living Wisdom series began with a desire to offer the essential teachings of great saints, mystics, and spiritual figures in a format that is compatible with meditation and contemplation. Each book contains poems, prayers, songs, and prose written by or in veneration of a figure who has transcended human confusion, and whose wisdom might awaken our own. It is our hope that these books will offer you insight, renewal, and companionship on the spiritual path.

      Editor’s Note

      Our Lady of Guadalupe is ubiquitous in my homeland of New Mexico and in the heartland of Mexico, where my family spends a great deal of time. While I was born a Jew and have maintained a long-time Buddhist meditation practice, I have always identified with this particular representation of the Divine Mother and have taken comfort in surrounding myself with carved and painted reminders of her. Now, having immersed myself in the stories and teachings surrounding the miraculous apparition of La Virgen Maria for this book, I feel I have uncovered the secret life of an old friend, and I love her more deeply than ever.

      Because Our Lady of Guadalupe did not live in a physical body and therefore did not leave writings of her own, I have drawn on prayers and poems written to her, as well as accounts written about her, including passages from the Nican Mopohua, which conveys the words she is said to have spoken when she first appeared to the Aztec peasant Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill on December 12,151. Readers can find a detailed source list at the back of the book.

      The text is organized into three chapters, reflecting three major themes I find arising in the Guadalupe materials: the miracle of the apparition; mercy and compassion; and social justice. Each chapter opens and closes with a reflection of my own, distinguished by italics, which serves as a contemporary meditation on the theme of that chapter.

      It is my deep hope that in these pages you, too, will either discover or deepen your personal relationship with this great being who reflects the feminine face of the Divine. May Our Lady of Guadalupe guide you on your path home to your sacred self.

      I am deeply grateful for the generous contributions and wise council of Professor Tom Shaw, Professor Larry Torres, Father David Denny, Father William Hart McNichols, Demetria Martinez, Arnulfo and Juanita Mendoza, Kaysi Contreras, Sarah Jane Freymann, Kelly Notaras, Haven Iverson, and Rose Marie Berger.

      —Mirabai Starr

      August 2007

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      Opening Prayer

      Praise to you,

      Our Lady of Guadalupe,

      who appeared to a humble corn farmer in

      the high desert of ancient Mexico and

      healed the heart

      of a ravaged nation

      with your compassionate glance.

      Please extend your cloak of mercy to enfold us all,

      the weary and disheartened,

      the poor and downtrodden,

      those who work for peace and justice in the world

      and the ones who struggle for righteousness in our own lives.

      Amen.

      —Mirabai Starr

      Image B

      Introduction

      Woman Clothed with the Sun

      She appeared on a remote hilltop in the high desert of Latin America during the height of the Conquest. The indigenous people saw her as a manifestation of Goddess. The Catholic occupiers recognized her as the Virgin Mary. Her compassionate gaze melted the barriers between cultures and faiths, spreading a wave of healing love through a war-ravaged region. She did not come to pay her respects to the privileged and the powerful. She called on the poor and oppressed. She lifted them to their feet, and infused them with dignity and hope.

      The Spanish called him Juan Diego; we no longer remember his Nahuatl name. They called her Our Lady of Guadalupe. Yet, when the Divine Mother revealed herself to the Aztec peasant we know as Juan Diego, the name she gave herself was in his native tongue. History generally adjusts the reality of the conquered people to match the vision of the conquerors.

      The year was 1531. Juan Diego was climbing Tepeyac Hill on his way to attend to divine things. The European version of this

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