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          APOSTOLIC VISIT TO TORONTO,
          TO CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA AND TO CIUDAD DE MÉXICO

          CANONIZATION OF JUAN DIEGO CUAUHTLATOATZIN

          HOMILY OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II

          Mexico City, Wednesday July 31, 2002

           

          1.

          "I thank you, Father ... that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was your gracious will" (Mt 11:25-26).

          Dear Brothers and Sisters, 

          These words of Jesus in today's Gospel are a special invitation to us to praise and thank God for the gift of the first indigenous Saint of the American Continent.

          With deep joy I have come on pilgrimage to this Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Marian heart of Mexico and of America, to proclaim the holiness of Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, the simple, humble Indian who contemplated the sweet and serene face of Our Lady of Tepeyac, so dear to the people of Mexico.

          2.

          I am grateful for the kind words of Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carr