Our Lady of Guadalupe confronts us with something undeniable. A brown-skinned woman speaks Nahuatl, wears Indigenous clothing, and chooses a poor man to carry a message not to the oppressed, but to the powerful. We recognize how this turns everything upside down. The colonizers believed they held truth, but the truth came back to them through the voice of the colonized. We are part of a tradition that often forgets this. Revelation does not belong to the powerful. It appears wherever domination is undone by tenderness. Christ takes on the face and features of all people, whoever they are and no matter their circumstances. In this story, we see that divine presence honors culture, language, and poverty—not in theory, but in action. We are still being called to see Christ in the faces we overlook. This remains our ongoing spiritual task.
May we honor the Christ who meets us in
every face, every story, and every circumstance.
(inspired by Richard Rohr, Guadalupe; Mirabai Starr, Our Lady of Guadalupe)