Expert at the Virgen de Guadalupe appreciates Leo XIV invitation after conference in Rome

Fr. Eduardo Chávez, director of the Superior Institute of Guadalupanos Studies (ISEG) and considered the greatest expert in the appearances of the Virgin of Guadalupe, thanked the invitation of Pope Leo XIV to participate in a recent mariological congress in Rome.

Fr. Chávez and Dr. David Ricardo Ojeda Correa, doctor and director of the Mérida del Iseg campus, participated in the 26th Marian Mariological Congress International, organized in Rome from September 3 to 6.

“Pope Leo XIV has invited the Higher Institute of Guadalupanos Studies to participate in the 26th International Marian Mariological Congress through the Pontifical International Marian Academy and the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. This is really a great honor, to be able to express the perfectly incultured evangelization that she carried out and that the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe continues and now from the Holy See for the entire headquarters for the whole world.” Chávez this September 11 to ACI Press.

Father Chávez later recalled that the first bishop of Mexico, the Franciscan Fray Juan de Zumárraga – the prelate who witnessed the appearance of the image of Santa María de Guadalupe in the tilma of the Indian San Juan Diego – communicated to the King of Spain that “maybe he wants and wanted God, who here, from the Indies, the universal reform is to continue, he has to continue.

For the Mexican priest, those of Zumárraga “are really words, I would say, almost prophetic, because that is what the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe does, a true deep reform in Jesus. She takes us to Jesus, makes Jesus again that center that must have our existence. If we deviate, it is she who takes us to Jesus.”

The Congress concluded with a meeting of the participants with Pope Leo XIV in the classroom Paul VI of the Vatican, on September 6. On that occasion, the Holy Father He assured them that “contemplating the mystery of God and history from the inner look of Mary protects us from the distortions of propaganda, from the ideology and the unfortunate information, which can never pronounce an unarmed and disarming word, and opens us to divine gratuity, the only one that makes it possible for people, peoples and cultures to walk together in peace.”

“A great commitment”

Father Chávez said that having participated in the Mariano event in Rome “fills us with emotion, also fills us with a great commitment to live what is proclaimed.”

“This meeting has been a real experience that honors the Higher Institute of Guadalupanos studies, to all of us who are part, (and) to all those who have somehow come out of our classrooms.”

“It is also a great pride for me, holy pride, to represent the Cabildo of the Basilica of Guadalupe,” said the priest, who is also the magistral theologian Guadalupano in the Marian sanctuary that guard the original image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City.

“In the Holy See, we could talk about the message and the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe”, whose message is “an ecclesial treasure for every human being of good will,” he said.