It is with great joy that I invite you to join me in Semper Virgo, a five-year journey of Marian devotion and spiritual formation in preparation for the 500th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Saint Juan Diego, which we will celebrate on December 12, 2031.

For nearly five centuries, Our Lady of Guadalupe has shown her maternal love to all her children, leading them always to her Divine Son, their Lord and Savior. Amid the many trials and uncertainties of our time, we have particular need of her intercession, so that we may remain steadfast in the truths of our Catholic Faith and faithful in love of Christ and His Mystical Body, the Church.

Beginning on this December 12th, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, we will contemplate together the mystery of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the graces and privileges with which Almighty God adorned her as Mother of God the Son Incarnate, and her maternal mission in His work of our salvation. Through daily contemplations grounded in Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the perennial teaching of the Church, we will seek to grow in our knowledge and love of the Mother of God and of her Divine Son, following her example, in the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity.

It is my fervent prayer that these five years of preparation will be a time of true conversion of heart, of renewed devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of ever closer union with her Divine Son, so that we may worthily celebrate this jubilee and give thanks to Almighty God for the immeasurable graces which He has bestowed upon countless souls through the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

I invite you to accompany me on this spiritual pilgrimage by receiving the daily contemplations of Semper Virgo by email. Register at SemperVirgo.org.

May the Ever-Perfect Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of God and Mother of the Church, lead us ever more faithfully to her Divine Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who alone is our salvation.

Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke

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