Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe
Nuestra Señora de le Guadalupe
February 9th, 2008
Watercolor, HB pencil, black India ink and gold ink.

A picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe: [link]

In the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, there are many symbols, one being that she is wearing a black sash around her waist, indicating to the Native Indians that she was pregnant with Our Lord. Thus, she is also the Patroness of all of the Unborn.

“I am your compassionate mother, yours and of all the people who live as one in this land, and of all the other people of different ancestries, those who cry to me, those who seek me, those who trust in me. because here I will listen to their weeping, their sadness, to remedy, to cleanse and nurse all their different troubles, their miseries, their sufferings.”

The name “Guadalupe” comes from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word “coatlaxopeuh” which means, “one who crushes the serpent”(Genesis 3:15)

I used this source for a lot of the information on Our Lady of Guadelupe: It’s extremely fascinating, if anyone wants any information on Our Lady of Guadalupe, this would be a great site to visit: [link]



O Immaculate Virgin,
Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church,
who from this place reveal your clemency and your pity
to all those 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, teacher of hidden and silent sacrifice,
to you, who come to meet us sinners,
we dedicate on this day all our being and all our love.
We also dedicate to you our life, our work, our joys,
our infirmities and our sorrows.
Grant peace, justice and prosperity to our peoples;
for we entrust 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 to you for all the bishops,
that they may lead the faithful
along 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 the faith
and zealous dispensers of God's mysteries.
Grant to our homes
the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings,
with the same love
with which you conceived in your womb
the life of the Son of God.

Blessed Virgin Mary, 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 and sins 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, as it were,
the signs that your Son left us 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 from your son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
who with God the Father and the Holy Spirit,
lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.