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December 12, 2002Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Psalm: Thursday Week 52 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Families Schools Adults Reading IZec 2:14-17 Sing and rejoice, O daughter Zion! See, I am coming to dwell among you, says the Lord.Many nations shall join themselves to the Lord on that day,and they shall be his people,and he will dwell among you,and you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.The Lord will possess Judah as his portion in the holy land,and he will again choose Jerusalem.Silence, all mankind, in the presence of the Lord!For he stirs forth...

In 1929, Alfonso Marcue, who was the official photographer of the old Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, found what seemed 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...