This Advent, quite intentionally, our community has been preparing for Marian Consecration. Yesterday, on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Nativity House community and 7 other friends from our parish entrusted ourselves to Jesus through Mary. The journey was remarkable. I learned so much about our Mama Mary and her desire to bring all of her children to her Son. I learned about many not-coincidences of sweet, sweet Mama Mary popping up at various moments through out my life. It all started when my parents made the choice to have me baptized not at our home parish, but at Our Lady of Guadalupe downtown Houston for no other reason than they could fit us in sooner. She has always been right here next to me! What a tremendous comfort and blessing. Some day I will write a book.
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from the collect for the liturgy of Our Lady of Guadalupe
O God, Father of mercies, who placed your people under the singular protection of your Son's most holy Mother, grant that all who invoke the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe, may seek with ever more lively faith the progress of peoples in the ways of justice and of peace. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
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