from a homily by Abp.Cordileone in honor of Guadalupe and Little Juan:
"From the enlightenment he received in his baptism he learned that this was the way to live his life in this world already with a foretaste of the Flower World. That only comes from the imitation of the woman who appeared to him: the Mother of the one who is the source of all beauty and truth. That is the way of lowliness, which is the only way to say and live out our “yes” to God...She is thus the model of Christian discipleship, the path to the place at which we all wish to arrive.
This is how it works for each one of us, for it is the way God designed us as human beings. And it is the way that God works for each of us, preparing us to receive Him, to receive the fullness of His love, truth and beauty. As He prepared the Aztec people for the coming of His Son through His Mother with the prophecies of the Flower World, and as He prepared the entire world through His original Chosen People for the coming of the Savior through His Mother, so in each of our lives He is at work preparing us to receive the fullness of His truth and beauty. But we are incapable unless we follow her example, lowering ourselves to humbly accept his way, to live a life of virtue and of unbounded love of God and neighbor. Only in this way can we begin to anticipate the life of heaven, and be ready to receive it in its fullness when we pass from this life to the next."
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