Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, you said to Juan Diego: Am I not here, who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and my protection? Say it again to me now. I am small, as he was; poor, as he was; and what I am carrying is heavier than roses. Mother of the true God for whom we live, turn to us your compassionate eyes, heal what is wounded in this land, defend the child in the womb, and keep on my heart the image you left on his cloak, which no one has ever been able to explain and no one has ever been able to destroy. Amen.
When this prayer is prayed
On 12 December, her feast, and by anyone carrying something too heavy — especially mothers, migrants and the unborn. Her words to Juan Diego in 1531 are quoted here as the Nican Mopohua records them.