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Hello and welcome to Form Now.

My name is Dr. Ben Acres.

I'm the executive director of Formed.

And today I'm going to be talking about our Lady of Guadalupe,

this wonderful feast day, especially important to us who live in the Americas.

And my guest today is Dr. Jim Prothro, my colleague and friend here at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology.

Before we talk about this wonderful feast day, I'd like to thank you for your support of the Augustin Institute.

Thank you for your support of Formed, through Mission Circle.

It's to your generous donations that you make these shows available. So thank you for that.

Well, we celebrate on December 12th, this wonderful

feast day, this apparition of our lady to the Aztec people in Mexico in 1531. And I've been blessed

to visit the shrine and to see this image in person. One of the things that struck me, I was blessed to live down in Mexico for six weeks,

and I spent a whole weekend in Mexico City living at the house near the shrine there.

And one of the things that struck me is how pervasive Arlady Gualupe is, the images of

Arlesa Guadalupe, and everywhere I went in Mexico, not just Mexico City, but all over the country of Mexico,

I remember going to McDonald's and waiting in line for McDonald's and looking over off to the side,

and there on the wall in the McDonald's was in Our Lady of Guadalupe.

So more than just an image on the wall, we want to tell you about the story.

And not only the story, but that impact for us today

living here as part of the new evangelization,

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