Over nine months ago, His Eminence Cardinal Burke announced, and invited everyone to join him in a nine-month Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
As I love both Our Lady and Cardinal Burke, I signed up to to do this, and I will admit that it was a challenge to say a lengthy prayer every day for nine months! Although I did manage to pray it nearly every day, I refused to take the defeatist attitude that missing a day by accident would “spoil the whole thing”; this seems like more of a superstitious view than an expression of filial piety, so I kept on regardless, as a child might still give a bouquet with a few wilted flowers to his mother, rather than tossing them all aside...
For the feast day, His Eminence has published a beautiful Act of Consecration to Our Lady of Guadalupe, which can be found at the novena website in many languages: English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, French, Vietnamese, Russian, Polish, Arabic, Chinese, and, of course, Latin!
I will share the images from the card here, but at the link above you can simply download it as a PDF. I encourage all readers of NLM to pray it on this great feast day of the Patroness of the Americas and of the Unborn. (As usual, click to enlarge.)
