(OSV News) -- In preparation for the 500th anniversary of Our Lady of Guadalupe's appearance to St. Juan Diego in five years, the dioceses of the U.S. will be participating in the Novena Intercontinental Guadalupana (Intercontinental Guadalupan Novena). Bishop Oscar Cantú of San Jose, chairman of the bishops' Subcommittee on Hispanic/Latino Affairs, addressed his fellow bishops