October 16 & 17, 2026
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
La Crosse, Wisconsin

Our Lady of Guadalupe: “Compassionate Mother … of All the People That Live Together in This Land” (Nican Mopohua, nos. 29-30)

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Join the Queen of the Americas Guild for a 2-day conference/ retreat examining Our Lady’s role as Compassionate Mother to All That Live Together in This Land.

The Annual Conference for the Queen of the Americas Guild is open to all those who wish to enhance their faith and learn more about this important topic.

His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke will be our keynote speaker.  As the founder of the shrine, His Eminence has extensive knowledge of Our Lady of Guadalupe and her role as Compassionate Mother to All of Us.

Cardinal Burke was appointed the Cardinal Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in November of 2014, has served on the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, and also serves on the Queen of the Americas Guild Board of Directors.

Father Gerald Murray was born in Brooklyn, New York in May, 1959 and grew up in New Rochelle. He attended Regis High School and Dartmouth College. He entered St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie in 1980, and was ordained a priest on December 1, 1984. He was assigned to various parishes in the Bronx and Manhattan before being sent to the Gregorian University in Rome in 1993 to study Canon Law. He was awarded a Doctorate in Canon Law in 1998. and then served briefly as a judge on the Metropolitan Tribunal before being named Pastor of St. Vincent De Paul Church on West 23rd St. in 1998. In 2012 Fr. Murray was named Pastor of Holy Family Church.

Fr. Murray has appeared as a commentator on religious topics on various television and radio outlets, including EWTN, EWTN Spanish, Fox News, Fox Business News, MSNBC, NYI, Radio Maria, Relevant Radio, Fox News Radio and the Voice of America. He is fluent in French, Spanish and Italian. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve Chaplain Corps from 1994 to 2005.

Monsignor Fernando B. Felices Sanchez was born in San Juan, PR in 1953. He is a Diocesan priest. He earned his BA in History from Dartmouth College (1 975), Juris Doctor (Harvard Law School, 1978), Masters in Theology, Boston St. John’s Seminary (1982), Licentiate in Spiritual Theology (Gregorian Univ., Rome, 2004). He was Rector and Professor at the San Juan Major Seminary (1984-1999); Chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Juan (1999-2003); Pastor of Gruta de Lourdes Parish in Trujillo Alto (2004-2020), and Archdiocesan Censor (2004-2020).

Mons. Felices has written 5 books (De Camino con Santa Teresa, The Holy Rosary according to St. John Paul Il (3rd edition) in Spanish, La paternidad espiritual del Sacerdote, El Santuario dela Gruta de Lourdes (1925-2005), Via Lucis) and many articles on historical and theological themes (including 3 for the New Catholic Encyclopedia). He founded the Chaplaincy at the UPR Medical School. Mons. Felices is fluent in Spanish, English, French and Italian, and has preached retreats in the USA and Puerto Rico, especially to the Missionaries of Charity of St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta. His latest book discusses the Soteriological significance of Christ’s Descent to the Dead.