The Wonder of Guadalupe Quotes

“All, whether believers or not, find something to love, and to love intensely, in the Virgin of Guadalupe. Against her in this land, no man blasphemes. She is the ideal, the light that shines above our strife and our incredulity.”
― Francis Johnston, Wonder of Guadalupe

“These enduring attributes of the sacred image have caused more than one rationalist to bow before the supernatural evidence confronting him. In 1976 for instance, an agnostic architect named Ramirez Vasquez, who was entrusted with the design of the new Basilica, requested permission to study the sacred image. He examined it so thoroughly that he became a Catholic.”
― Francis Johnston, Wonder of Guadalupe

“Almost everywhere the missionaries travelled, entire families would come running out of their dusty village, entreating them with signs to come and pour the water on their heads. Others would plead on their knees for the Sacrament to be administered there and then. When the numbers grew too numerous to cope with individually, the missionaries formed the men and women into two separate columns behind a cross-bearer. As they filed passed the first priest, he briefly imposed on each the Oil of Catechumens. Holding lighted candles and singing a hymn, they would then converge on a second priest who stood beside the baptismal font. While the Sacrament of Baptism was being administered, the columns would slowly wind back to the first priest, who anointed them with chrism. Then the husbands and wives joined hands, and, pronouncing their marriage vows together, received the Sacrament of Matrimony.”
― Francis Johnston, Wonder of Guadalupe

“Do not be troubled or weighed down with grief. Do not fear any illness or vexation, anxiety or pain. Am I not here who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not your fountain of life? Are you not in the folds of my mantle? In the crossing of my arms? Is there anything else you need?”
― Francis Johnston, Wonder of Guadalupe