In this episode, Fr. Ambrose sits down with Joseph and Monique González—the husband-and-wife team behind a remarkable new reading of Mesoamerican culture and the mystery of Guadalupe.

Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, and ancient Nahua “flower songs,” they explain the classic Christian idea of preparatio evangelica—the way God prepares pagan cultures to receive the Gospel. From the Olmec and Teotihuacan temples to the poetic “flower world” filled with light, color, music, and longing for truth, Joseph and Monique show how an entire civilization was already speaking in symbols of beauty, paradise, and a God who could make the unworthy worthy.

The full story unfolds slowly in the conversation itself. Watch to see how these threads come together—and what they reveal about Our Lady, about St. Juan Diego, and about the way God had been preparing the Americas long before 1531.

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