Her house is to become what every church should be: a center of recognition, listening, love, compassion, healing, and protection. This will be a center not of rules and regulations but of flowers and songs. It will not be a sad church, but a festive one wherein the joy of God will uplift the downtrodden of the earth. The humanizing and liberating beauty of the divine experience will draw people into it freely and joyfully. Here, everyone will be someone special, experiencing their inner dignity, infinite worth, and personal mission of building the temple of the new and truly egalitarian society. This is what every church should be. So her temple is to be a model of what every Christian temple should be, a model that few, even today, emulate.
— Virgil Elizondo, Guadalupe