The Virgin asks Juan Diego for a small job, to pick some flowers. Flowers, in mysticism, mean the virtues that the Lord instills in the heart, they are not our work.
The act of collecting them reveals to us that God wants us to welcome this gift, to perfume our weak reality with good works, eliminating hatred and fears.
If you look at the message of Guadalupe, the words of the Virgin: “Am I not here, for I am your mother?”, they take on a new meaning. That “being” of the Virgin is to remain permanently imprinted on those poor clothes, perfumed by virtues collected in a world that seems incapable of producing them. Virtues that fill our poverty in the simplicity of small gestures of love, that illuminate our tilma, without us realizing it, with the image of a Church that carries Christ in its womb.