Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, December 12th at 9:00am At various times and places, the ever-blessed Virgin Mary has come in visions and apparitions to encourage her fellow Christians to follow her son, Jesus, the Christ, ever more faithfully. On December 9, 1531, St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474-1548), a native Mexican farmer and laborer, was on his way to attend Mass. He heard a woman call out from Tepeyac Hill. She was the Virgin Mary and she asked Juan Diego to tell the bishop to build a chapel on the site. Juan Diego went to the bishop with the request, but the bishop scoffed at him. He returned with his cloak, or tilma, filled with roses, and when he unfurled it before the bishop, the woman’s image was imprinted on the inside. The bishop believed and the church was built. The image on Juan Diego’s tilma is venerated as that of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Whenever and wherever she enters into our lives, she points us toward the continuing work of Jesus for our salvation.