Throughout the Bible, God is making new covenants with his people. They all have the same general idea of God caring for his people. He chooses different prophets and physical signs to depict the covenants to his people, but each covenant is just a new way that God shows his love for his people and his wanting us to love him back. But he is not the only being using prophets to spread the message of unconditional love. In the article, New Frontiers of Guadalupan Studies, Colleen Cross noticed some comparisons between the Mosaic, the Noahic, and the Guadilupan covenants. In the Old Testament, God made the Mosaic covenant with Moses on Mount Sinai and the Noahic covenant with Noah after the flood. The Mosaic covenant is more of a formal agreement
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Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego in the form of singing birds and flowers (117). Guadalupe came to Juan to declare her love for all the earth and her “desire to become the mother of all nations, making all peoples her children” (118). When Guadalupe says this, she does not just make a covenant with Juan Diego, but she makes it with all the people on the earth and calling them her children. She does this to represent the covenant God made with Moses on Mount Sinai that concerned all of the Isrealites. Not only does she use that as a chance to show the Mosaic covenant, but she also does it to show her unconditional love for all the nations, not just the Mexicans (118). The Guadalupan covenant is the Blessed Virgin Mary's way of freely giving her unconditional love to anyone open to accepting it, just like God's Noahic covenant. These two covenants also share a similar idea of using nature as a physical, visible sign of their covenant. Just as the sign of the Noahic covenant was a rainbow, the sign of the Guadalupan Covenant was the beautiful music and flowers, all of which showed the wondrous love she had to give and the love God gives through her. What makes the Guadalupe so unique and special was the fact that not only was it the Mother of God issuing the covenant, but she came through the chirping of song birds and never made a physical demonstration of her identity but came …show more content…
But I had never heard of a Guadalupan Covenant. When I found out that it was the Blessed Virgin Mary calling us her children and declaring her unconditional love for us, as a mother would to her child, I was slightly taken aback because I had never actually heard of Mary declaring her love. But once I read farther, it made more sense. Her Son loves us unconditionally and so does Our Father, and they have both declared it, so why should Our mother not declare her love for us in a way only a mother can? I found it beautiful and inspiring that she chose to appear in the singing of the birds and the rays of light. That image is very powerful, peaceful, and breath-taking. It is an image of pure, innocent, nature that God created. An image worthy of a mothers love for her
Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego in the form of singing birds and flowers (117). Guadalupe came to Juan to declare her love for all the earth and her “desire to become the mother of all nations, making all peoples her children” (118). When Guadalupe says this, she does not just make a covenant with Juan Diego, but she makes it with all the people on the earth and calling them her children. She does this to represent the covenant God made with Moses on Mount Sinai that concerned all of the Isrealites. Not only does she use that as a chance to show the Mosaic covenant, but she also does it to show her unconditional love for all the nations, not just the Mexicans (118). The Guadalupan covenant is the Blessed Virgin Mary's way of freely giving her unconditional love to anyone open to accepting it, just like God's Noahic covenant. These two covenants also share a similar idea of using nature as a physical, visible sign of their covenant. Just as the sign of the Noahic covenant was a rainbow, the sign of the Guadalupan Covenant was the beautiful music and flowers, all of which showed the wondrous love she had to give and the love God gives through her. What makes the Guadalupe so unique and special was the fact that not only was it the Mother of God issuing the covenant, but she came through the chirping of song birds and never made a physical demonstration of her identity but came …show more content…
But I had never heard of a Guadalupan Covenant. When I found out that it was the Blessed Virgin Mary calling us her children and declaring her unconditional love for us, as a mother would to her child, I was slightly taken aback because I had never actually heard of Mary declaring her love. But once I read farther, it made more sense. Her Son loves us unconditionally and so does Our Father, and they have both declared it, so why should Our mother not declare her love for us in a way only a mother can? I found it beautiful and inspiring that she chose to appear in the singing of the birds and the rays of light. That image is very powerful, peaceful, and breath-taking. It is an image of pure, innocent, nature that God created. An image worthy of a mothers love for her