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Rome, Italy, Dec 13, 2012 \/ 04:04 pm (CNA<\/a>).- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops, said the Catholics of America should be \u201con the front lines in the battle\u201d for justice, peace and \u201cauthentic human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHowever, he qualified, this commitment can only be effective \u201cwith the testimony of holiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tCardinal Ouellet made his remarks during a solemn Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebrated at the Church of St. Mary in Traspontina, outside the Vatican.<\/p>\n

\tThe Dec. 12 Mass, concelebrated by cardinals, bishops and priests of the Roman Curia, was the closing event for the international congress Ecclesia in America, organized by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and the Knights of Columbus.<\/p>\n

\tThe feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebrates the apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1531 to St. Juan Diego near present-day Mexico City. She told Juan Diego to ask the local bishop to build a church on the site. Later when he asked for a sign, she said his ailing uncle would be cured. She also asked him to gather in his tilma roses and other flowers which had miraculously bloomed.<\/p>\n

\tWhen he unraveled his tilma before the bishop, it bore a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary in an indigenous style of art. The image helped convert many natives to Christianity.<\/p>\n

\tRecalling the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Cardinal Ouellet said, \u201cThanks to three miracles of Holy Mary, grace prevailed over episcopal prudence and marked the launching of the evangelization of the new world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cBut now she is urging the baptized of all of America to set out on the journey of the new evangelization,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe have come to Rome, to this meeting, guided by the star, like the \u2018wise men from the east,\u2019 the star that is Our Lady of Guadalupe,\u201d he told the more than 150 cardinals, bishops, priests and laity from across America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cLet us now bear witness to the Gospel that unites us beyond our borders and races in one continent, as children of the one Church: the entire world, especially the poor and those suffering most, await this testimony.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe baptized should stand up and proclaim our faith with pride, certainly with respect for all but with the urgency of knowing that we must pass the torch of this faith on to the new generations of the digital culture,\u201d Cardinal Ouellet said.<\/p>\n

\tHe also spoke movingly about the testimony of holiness of the first saint of America, St. Rose of Lima, and that of the newest saint, St. Kateri Tekakwitha. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\u201cBoth saints must be joining hands together in Heaven now, not only to watch over all of America, but also to urge us on in the new evangelization,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cFor this reason,\u201d the Canadian cardinal said, \u201cthe only guarantee that we have fulfilled our mission is holiness: the existence today of holy men and women.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThere is no obstacle to be saints today, a mustard seed of faith is enough,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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