Showing posts with label Our Lady of Guadalupe. Show all posts
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Friday, 12 October 2012
The Mystery in Our Lady's eyes, Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Miraculous Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe
According to many scientists who have inspected the image,
it seems that in her eyes, in both of them and in the precise location as
reflected by a live human eye, could be seen many figures that have been
extensively analyzed and seem to correspond to the shape and size of human
figures located in front of the image.
In 1929, Alfonso Marcue, who was the official photographer
of the old Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, found what seemed to him to be
a clear image of a bearded man reflected in the right eye of the Virgin.
Initially he did not believe what was before his eyes. How could it be? A
bearded man inside of the eyes of the Virgin?
After many inspections of many
of his black and white photographs he had no doubts and decided to inform the
authorities of the Basilica. He was told that time to keep complete silence
about the discovery, which he did.
More than 20 years later, on May 29, 1951, Jose Carlos
Salinas Chavez, examining a good photograph of the face, rediscovers the image
of what clearly appears to be a bearded man reflected in the right eye of the
Virgin, and locates it on the left eye too.
Since then, many
people had the opportunity to inspect closely the eyes of the Virgin on the
tilma, including more than 20 physicians, ophthalmologists.
The first one, on March 27, 1956, was Dr. Javier Torroella
Bueno, MDS, a prestigious ophthalmologist. In what is the first report on the
eyes of the image issued by a physician, he certifies what seems to be the
presence of the triple reflection (Samson-Purkinje effect) characteristic of
all live human eyes and states that the resulting images are located exactly
where they are supossed to be according to such effect, and also that the
distortion of the images agree with the curvature of the cornea.
The same year another ophthalmologist, Dr. Rafael Torrija
Lavoignet, examined the eyes of the image with an ophthalmoscope in great
detail. He observed the apparent human figure in the corneas of both eyes, with
the location and distortion of a normal human eye and specially noted a unique
appearance of the eyes: they look strangely "alive" when examined.
Many other examinations by ophthalmologists have been done
of the eyes of the image on the tilma after these first ones. With more or less
details all agree with the conclusions of the ones mentioned above.
A new and interesting kind of analysis of the eyes started
in 1979, when Dr. Jose Aste Tonsmann, Ph D, graduated from Cornell University,
while working in IBM scanned at very high resolutions a very good photograph,
taken from the original, of the face on the tilma. After filtering and
processing the digitized images of the eyes to eliminate "noise" and
enhance them, he reports he made some astonishing discoveries: not only the
"human bust" was clearly present in both eyes, but another human
figures were seen as reflected in the eyes too.
Dr. Aste Tonsmann published his last studies on the eyes on
the tilma in the book "El Secreto de sus Ojos", with complete details
and photographs of his work . Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of
the studies is his conclusion that Our Lady of Guadalupe not only left us her
miraculous image as proof of her apparition but some important messages too.
These messages were hidden in the eyes on the image until our times, when new
technologies would allow them to be discovered, when they are most necessary.
That would be the case with the image of a family in the
center of the Virgin's eye, in times when families are under serious attack in
our modern world. The image of various human figures that seem to constitute a
family, including various children and a baby carried in the woman's back as
used in the 16th century, appears in the center of the pupil, as shown in this
great image of the right eye highlighting the family, generously provided by
Dr. Tonsmann.
See a video on the eyes images, with Dr. Aste Tonsmann.
Other Facts of this Miraculous Image
Kodak indicates the Tilma is like a photo rather than a
painting.
The Tilma’s temperature is 98.6 degrees normal human body temperature.
The image colors are not from animal, plant, or mineral pigments.
The Tilma stars match the 1531 winter solstice stars in the sky.
The Tilma’s temperature is 98.6 degrees normal human body temperature.
The image colors are not from animal, plant, or mineral pigments.
The Tilma stars match the 1531 winter solstice stars in the sky.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Juan Diego
Part 2
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd3G1S_24NM&feature=related
Miracles -- Our Lady of Guadalupe when filming an Emmy Award winning film of another telling of the Story of Guadalupe... Wow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZvPIz0COdk&feature=relatedNovena to Our Lady of Guadalupe by John Paul II
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| Eighteenth-century painting of God the Father fashioning the image |
Queen of the Americas
Patroness of the Unborn
This novena (prayers for nine days) can be said at any time, but especially between December 3 to December11)
Feast Day of
Our Lady of Guadalupe is December 12.
O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God
and Mother of the Church!
You, who from this place reveal your clemency
and your pity to all who ask for your protection:
Hear the prayer that we address to you with filial
trust, and present it to your Son Jesus, our sole Redeemer.
Mother of Mercy, Teach of hidden and silent sacrifice,
to you, who come to meet us sinners, we dedicate to you
our life, our work, our joys, our infirmities and our
sorrows.
Grant peace, justice and prosperity to our people;
For we trust to your care all that we have and all that we
are,
Our Lady and Mother.
We wish to be entirely yours and to walk with you along
the way of complete faithfulness
to Jesus Christ in His
Church;
Hold us always with your loving hand.
Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas,
We pray for all the Bishops, that they may lead the faithful
Along the paths of intense Christian life,
Of love and humble service of God and souls.
Contemplate this immense harvest,
and intercede with the
Lord
That He may instill a hunger for holiness
in the whole
People of God,
And grant abundant vocations of priests
and religious,
strong in faith
And zealous dispensers of God’s mysteries.
Grant to our homes the grace of loving and respecting life
In it’s beginnings, with the same love
with which you
conceived in your womb
The life of the Son of God.
Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Fair Love,
protect our
families,
So that they may always be united,
and bless the upbringing
of our children.
Our Hope, look upon us with compassion,
teach us to go
continually to Jesus
And, if we fall, help us to rise again,
to return to Him, by
means of the confession
Of our faults in the Sacrament of Penance,
which gives peace
to the soul.
We beg you to grant us a great love for
all the Holy
Sacraments, which are,
The signs that your Son left on earth.
Thus, Most Holy Mother, with the peace
of God in our
conscience,
With our hearts free from evil and hatred,
We will be able to bring to all, true joy and true peace,
Which come to us form your Son, Jesus Christ,
Who with God the Father and the Holy Spirit,
Lives and reigns forever.
Amen.
(Here we place our heartfelt needs before Our Blessed
Mother)
Written by
Pope John Paul II
in Mexico January 1979
Our Lady of Guadelupe, the True Story
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Let not your heart be disturbed. Do not fear that sickness, nor any other sickness
or anguish. Am I not here, who am your Mother? Are you not under my protection?
Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my fold? What else do you
wish? Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything."
Words
of Our Lady to Juan Diego
Mexico,
December 9, 1531--In the early morning, a peasant by the name of Juan Diego saw a beautiful girl of about 15 or 16 years of age, she was surrounded
by a bright light. She spoke to him in
his own language (*Nahuatl), she asked that a church be built in her honor,
where she was standing (on the slopes of Tepeyac).
"My dear little son, I love you. I desire you to know who I am. I am the ever-virgin Mary, Mother of the true God who gives life and maintains its existence. He created all things. He is in all places. He is Lord of Heaven and Earth. I desire a church in this place where your people may experience my compassion. All those who sincerely ask my help in their work and in their sorrows will know my Mother's Heart in this place. Here I will see their tears; I will console them and they will be at peace. So run now to Tenochtitlan and tell the Bishop all that you have seen and heard."
Juan Diego recognized her as the Virgin Mary.
He immediately told the Spanish Archbishop,
Fray Juan de Zumarraga, who instructed him to return to the place of the vision
and ask the Lady for a miraculous sign to prove her identity. So, Juan went back and asked the Lady for a
sign, she told him to pick the Castilian roses that were blooming (they are not
native to Mexico and it was winter time).
He did as she requested gathering them up in his tilma (cloak).
He took the roses wrapped in his cloak to the
Archbishop. When he opened the cloak,
the roses fell to the floor, and in their place was the image of the Virgin of
Guadalupe miraculously imprinted on the fabric.
The 'tilma' was made of a poor quality cactus-cloth,
which should have deteriorated in 20 years but shows no sign of decay after 481 years
and still defies all scientific explanations of its origin.
"Let
not your heart be disturbed. Do not fear that sickness, nor any other sickness
or anguish. Am I not here, who am your Mother? Are you not under my protection?
Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my fold? What else do you
wish? Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything."
Words
of Our Lady to Juan Diego
Why did Mary, the Mother of God visit Guadalupe?
She came to bring about the conversion of Christianity to the Aztec-Mexican people.
Because of the abuse
suffered by the Native Mexicans when the conquistadors, along with missionaries
invaded their land making them slaves they were not open to the new religion of
Christianity.
After nearly a full
generation only a few hundred Native Mexicans had been converted to the
Christian faith. Then in 1531 when the
miracles began to happen with Jesus' own mother appearing to humble Juan Diego,
a Native Mexican, along with the signs -- of the roses, of the uncle
miraculously cured of a deadly illness, and especially of her beautiful image
on Juan's mantle -- convinced the people there was something to be considered
in Christianity. Within a short time,
six million Native Mexicans had themselves baptized as Christians.
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"I
wish that a temple be erected here quickly, so I may therein exhibit and give
all my love, compassion, help, and protection. Because I am your merciful
mother, to you, and to all the inhabitants on this land and all the rest who
love me, invoke and confide in me; to listen there to their lamentations, and
remedy all their miseries, afflictions and sorrows. And to accomplish what my
clemency pretends, go to the palace of the bishop of Mexico, and you will say to
him that I manifest my great desire, that here on this plain a temple be built
to me."
Today
The present church was constructed on the site of the earlier 16th-century
church that was finished in 1709, the Old Basilica. When this basilica became
dangerous due to the sinking of its foundations, a modern structure called the
New Basilica was built next to it; the original image of the Virgin of Guadalupe
is now housed in this New Basilica.
An
incredible list of miracles, cures and interventions are attributed to Her (Our
Lady of Guadalupe). Yearly, between 18
to 20 million pilgrims visit the Basilica, making it Christianity's most
visited sanctuary.
Altogether
25 popes have officially honored Our Lady of Guadalupe. His Holiness John Paul
II visited her Sanctuary four times: on his first apostolic trip outside Rome
as Pope in 1979, and again in 1990, 1999 and 2002.
In
1999, Pope John Paul II, in his homily from the Solemn Mass at the Basilica of
Our Lady of Guadalupe, during his third visit to the sanctuary, declared the
date of December the 12th as a Liturgical Holy Day for the whole continent.
He entrusted the cause of life to her loving
protection, and placed under her motherly care the innocent lives of children,
especially those who are in danger of not being born.
This Pope proclaimed the Virgin Mary Patroness of the Americas, Empress of
Latin America, and Protectress of Unborn Children.
The
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated on December 12th.
More detailed information may be found at http://www.sancta.org/intro.html
Story of Our Lady of Guadalupe
and Juan Diego
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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