Guadalupe

by Elizondo, Virgilio P.

• ISBN13: 9781570751103
• ISBN10: 1570751102
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

In December 1531 on the hill of Tepeyac in what is present-day Mexico City an Indian named Juan Diego beheld an apparition of the Mother of God. With the attire and features of an Indian maiden and addressing Juan Diego in his native tongue she instructed him to tell the bishop to build a shrine on that spot. As a sign she left her image on his cloak - the miraculous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Drawing on a lifetime of reflection Father Virgil Elizondo has written Guadalupe, an account of the story and meaning of one of the most powerful religious symbols of our day. For centuries Guadalupe has served as one of the sustaining symbols of Mexican, Latin American, and U.S. Hispanic identity and spirituality. But more than that, in this lyrical and inspiring work Elizondo shows that Our Lady of Guadalupe has an even wider significance and relevance to the church universal at the dawn of a new millennium.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Personal Story	ix	(4)
The Uniqueness of the Historical Moment	xiii	(5)
The Voice of the Silenced	xviii
Part I THE POETIC MEMORY The Creation Narrative	3	(22)
Introduction to the Nican Mopohua	3	(2)
The Text of the Nican Mopohua	5	(20)
Title	5	(1)
Summary	5	(1)
The Situation of the City and Its Inhabitants	5	(1)
First Encounter with the Virgin	6	(3)
First Interview with the Bishop	9	(1)
Second Encounter with the Virgin	9	(2)
Second Interview with the Bishop	11	(2)
Juan Diego Takes Care of His Uncle	13	(1)
Third Encounter with the Virgin	13	(5)
Third Interview with the Bishop and the Apparition of the Virgin	18	(2)
Conversion of the Bishop	20	(1)
The Construction of the Hermitage	21	(1)
The Fourth Apparition and First Miracle	21	(1)
The Entire City before the Virgin	22	(3)
Part II THE GUADALUPAN ENCOUNTER	25	(56)
1. When It Was Still Night	25	(9)
The Time and Space	25	(5)
The Historical Night	30	(2)
The Cosmic Night	32	(2)
2. It Was Already Beginning to Dawn	34	(26)
The Singing of the Birds: Cosmic Awakening	34	(4)
Mount Tepeyac: The Womb	38	(10)
Principal Protagonists	48	(12)
Juan Diego: A Simple and Dignified Indian Campensino
Juan de Zumarraga: The Bishop, Confident Messenger of God
3. Exquisite Flowers	60	(21)
Virgin and Mother	60	(10)
The Voice of the Virgin Heard by Juan Diego
The Virgin Seen by ?Juan Diego
Her Self-Introduction
Mother of Everyone
Contrasts
Her Temple: Sacred Space	70	(3)
The New Cosmic Life	73	(8)
Health: Healing
Beauty: Beautiful Flowers out of Season
Friendship: Her Floral Image on the Tilma
Part III THE NEW CREATION	81	(56)
4. Conversion	81	(19)
The Great Equalizer	81	(7)
Of Persons: The New Juan Diego	88	(2)
Of Peoples	90	(4)
Of Religions: Conversion of the Church	94	(6)
5. Mestizo Christianity	100	(15)
Original Christianity	100	(3)
The Americas: A Crucible of Peoples	103	(4)
Anthropological Reversal	107	(5)
Evangelical Christianity	112	(3)
6. Reflections on the Guadalupe Event	115	(22)
It Is about Truth Itself	116	(3)
It Is about Evangelization and Faith	119	(5)
It Is about God	124	(4)
It Is about Christ and the New Humanity	128	(1)
It Is about the Triune God	129	(2)
Closing Thoughts	131	(6)
Bibliography	137