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This feast, nine months before the feast of the Nativity of Our Lady on September 8th celebrates her conception without sin in the womb of her mother, Saint Ann. This is a holyday in the USA since under this title, Our Lady is patroness of the USA.

Saint John Paul II declared Our Lady of Guadalupe as the patroness of the Americas: North, Central and South. Appearing to a devout native American in the hills outside of today's Mexico City, Our Lady instructed him to have the bishop build a shrine to her honor on the site. Asking a sign as proof, Our Lady imprinted her image on the inside of the tilma of Saint Juan Diego when he released the roses he had picked growing on the hillside that Our Lady had arranged inside his cloak. Depicted as an Aztec princess, who is the Mother of a deity, the image converted thousands and thousands of natives to the Christian faith. Despite efforts to destroy it, the image is preserved and intact nearly half a millennium after the initial event in 1531.

This annual event is closed to the public given the time of the year and the inability to gather large crowds indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our service will be live streamed from the chapel on our website and Facebook page. Please join us to celebrate what would be Audrey's 37th birthday. Following the Mass, we will pray the chaplet for Little Audrey and have Benediction. Please contact us ahead for oil to bless yourself at the time of the anointing during Mass to share in its graces. Times are US Eastern Standard time for those joining us from outside the USA.