40 Am I Not Your Mother? generation has placed its soul here. It must be so. Our Lady of Guadalupe did not ask only the generation that lived four centuries ago to build her a temple; she asked all generations, because she asks us all for love. This temple is national not only because it has been built by Catholics from all over the territory, but because Mexicans of all times put their hands and hearts in it. We also love you, sweet Mother. We also conform the word of our heart to your loving word. Here is the monument of our love! What we did was more than our poverty suggested but less than what our heart asked. More than our riches, we put into this temple our love and our sacrifices. Look at it, O Lady, with the eyes of a mother. These magnificent vaults and these worldly walls are anointed with the perfume of our gratitude and consecrated with the kisses of our filial love. What we did is worth very little in the eyes of men. But does it not in your motherly eyes have an immense value—nothing less than the inestimable price of our love? Other generations will come after us, and in this temple they will leave the traces of their faith and the seal of their love. Mary’s wish will continue to be fulfilled in this place she chose until time ends and the new earth, foretold by the Scriptures, stands as a perennial testimony to the love of the Mexican people—the definitive and
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