Well, your remnants, it's really lovely to be with you in the Eternal City.

Yes, I'm so glad you came and happy to visit with you again after many years.

Yes.

Well, first question I have for you is about this novena that you started.

Maybe you can tell us a bit about it for those who aren't familiar and how many people joined it.

Well, I think every serious person today realizes that the world is in a very troubled situation.

For example, this ongoing war in the Ukraine and the prolonged crisis in the holy land and then

the rebellion against God and the whole moral sphere, the advance of the idea that we can choose our own sexual identity and mutilate ourselves in order to entertain the insane idea. Then and also that the same term is entered into the church. There's so much confusion

today about what the church really teaches and in a sense that more

and more Catholics have that the that somehow the church has lost her moorings or redder and that she's just drifting with the contemporary

culture which those who have lived intensely the culture know that it's

lethal and it's not for our happiness either in this life or in the life which is to come. So I

Before this reality it led me to think of the situation in Mexico in the time of the apparitions of our Lady

Guadalupe in the 16th century, precisely from December 9th to the 12th and 1531 and at that time there was a terrible situation of human sacrifice among the Native Americans the Aztecs.

It was a corruption of the Aztec religion,

a diabolical corruption, but it was costing thousands

and thousands of lives.

At the same time, there was a conflict developing between the Native Americans and the

Spanish explorers and settlers, which was sure to result in a bloody conflict with the destruction of many many human lives and of their goods.

And so at that time, Bishop Andes of Marga who was the first Bishop of Mexico,

what is today, Mexico City, He declared only an intervention of God will save us and in

fact God sent Our Lady and what is today in Mexico City on Tepeac Hill.

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