Programming to celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe feast

On December 12th, CatholicTV celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, and protector of children. To begin the feast day Mass is celebrated at 9:30am. Father Robert Reed Director of the CatholicTV Network has a beautiful homily prepared about Our Lady of Guadalupe, defender of life, and a true Advent blessing.

Our Blessed Mother appeared to a convert to the faith, Juan Diego in 1531. Juan shared this vision with the Bishop of Mexico City. Juan asked that the Bishop comply with Our Lady's request to have a church built. As Father Reed shares in his homily, the bishop was skeptical and asked Juan for proof of the apparition. Juan explained his plight to Our Lady and she asked him to have faith to gather flowers and bring them to the Bishop. Juan did so and carried the flowers in his cloak, which is called a tilma. When Juan Diego opened his tilma, everyone present fell to their knees before the image of Our Lady, which had appeared on the rough cloth. A church was built on the site of apparitions, which houses the tilma which pilgrims flock to each year, miracles continue to be attributed to the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

CatholicTV also will air some wonderful productions from the 127th Annual Convention of the Knights of Columbus which took place in Phoenix Arizona. The conference was followed by the First International Marian Congress on Our Lady of Guadalupe. It was during these events that Supreme Knight, Carl Anderson and Monsignor Chávez presented their book on Our Lady of Guadalupe. It is on the New York Time best sellers list.

On the feast day, CatholicTV will air the Guadalupe Festival and the International Rosary at noon and 8pm (ET).

In March CatholicTV will air the presentations which took place at the Congress including speakers Msgr. Eduardo Chávez, postulator of the cause for the canonization of now-St. Juan Diego, rector of the Institute for Guadalupan Studies and a canon of the Basilica of Guadalupe.He co-authored a book on Our Lady of Guadalupe with Supreme Knight Carl Anderson.

Dr. José Aste Tonsmann, a Cornell University graduate of environmental systems engineering, who is now with the Mexican Center of Guadalupan Studies. he will discuss the ophthalmological scientific support behind the miraculous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Saint Juan Diego’s tilma.

Supreme Knight Carl Anderson , head of the largest fraternal charitable organization, the Knights of Columbus shares the miracles of faith attributed to the patroness of the Americas , Our Lady of Guadalupe.

CatholicTV to Air Guadalupe Festival With Carl Anderson, Immaculée Ilibagiza, Eduardo Verástegui and Others

On Saturday, December 12th, the Feast of Our Lady Of Guadalupe, CatholicTV will air the Guadalupe Festival which took place in Glendale, Arizona. The festival includes footage of talks by Carl Anderson, music by Mexican pop star Alexander Acha, and a procession featuring the only relic in the U.S. of the actual tilma of Juan Diego.

Carl Anderson is the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the world’s largest Catholic family fraternal service organization, the Knights of Columbus which has more than 1.75 million members. During the Guadalupe Festival, Mr. Anderson announced the release of his newest book, Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of the Civilization of Love, which he co-authored with Monsignor Eduardo Chávez. The book is Mr. Anderson’s second New York Times bestseller

The Guadalupe festival will stream at www.CatholicTV.com and on CatholicTV where available from noon to 3PM & from 8PM to 11PM (EST).

The Guadalupe Festival was produced by Salt and Light Television and the Knights of Columbus and is hosted by Salt and Light Television Director Fr. Tom Rosica.

The festival was attended by more than 22,000 people. The festival video footage includes a talk by Eduardo Verástegui in which he discusses his conversion. He is best known for his star role in the movie “Bella”. “I had everything in my life, but in my heart, I had nothing,” Verástegui said. After feeling called to something greater, he decided that he would never work in anything that would offend his faith, his family or his Latino culture.

Immaculée Ilibagiza also spoke about her reliance on Jesus and Mary after the Rwandan genocide of 1994. She attributed her survival during those days to prayer and praying the rosary which her father gave her.