"Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas... see how great the harvest is, and intercede with the Lord so that he may instill a hunger for holiness in all the People of God... " that the faithful "may walk along the paths of an intense Christian life of love and humble service to God and to souls "6. Only in this way - with an intense Christian life, with love and a desire to serve - will we be able to carry out this new evangelization throughout the world, beginning with those closest to us. How many harvest without arms to gather it up! people hungry for the truth who have no one to teach it to them, people of all kinds and conditions who would like to come closer to God but cannot find the way. Each one of us must be a clear signpost that points out, by example and word, the right path that, through Mary, ends in Christ.
From Europe departed the first flame that ignited the faith in the American continent.
How many men and women, of so many different races, have found the door to Heaven through the heroic and sacrificial faith of those first evangelizers! Our Lady opened the way for them and, in spite of the difficulties, with tenacity, patience and a supernatural sense they taught everywhere the deepest mysteries of the faith. "Now we find ourselves in a Europe in which the temptation to atheism and skepticism is growing ever stronger; in which a painful moral uncertainty is taking root with the disintegration of the family and the degeneration of customs; in which a dangerous conflict of ideas and movements dominates ". Of these countries that were once profoundly Christian, some give the impression of being on the way back to the paganism from which they were drawn, often with the blood of martyrdom and always with the efficacious help of Our Lady. An entire civilization founded on Christian ideas seems to find itself without the resources to react. And from these nations, from where the light of faith once came forth to spread throughout the world, unfortunately "the weeds of a new paganism are being sent to the whole world ".