For the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, our beloved Patroness of all the Americas. Anxious that her children in Mexico would come to faith in her Son, she visited them herself and said to St. Juan Diego as she ever says to us all, "Am I not here, who is your Mother? Are you not under my protection? Am I not your health? Are you not happily within the fold of my mantle? What else do you wish? Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything."
A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary
For Reverend Theodore Richardson
If Mary came would Mary
Forgive, as Mothers may,
And sad and second Saviour
Furnish us today?
She would not shake her head and leave
This military air,
But ratify a modern hay,
And put her Baby there.
Mary would not punish men—
If Mary came again.
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