THE FEAST OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CO-PATRONESS OF THE SACRAMENTO DIOCESE AND THE AMERICAS...........

On this 3rd Monday of Advent the Church honors the Blessed Mother under the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Mexico - in the year 1531.  Her request sent through the Aztec Indian young man Juan Diego, to the local Bishop to build a chapel on the site of her apparition, has led to the construction of a Shrine, that it is now a place of international pilgrimage for Latino Catholics, and great numbers of the Faithful throughout the western world.  On this Feast Day as Catholic-Christians we join and unite with our Latino sisters and brothers, in honoring, venerating, and commemorating the Virgin of Guadalupe, who is the Co-Patroness od the Sacramento Diocese, and much of the United States, and is the Patroness of the Americas.  Her advocacy for peace, justice, and the pro-life movement, are attributes of our devotion to her.  Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pray For Us !!!!!!!!!!!...........Fr.  Troy