Decenber 12th! Great memories from my childhood where we celebrated our parish patron and special Lady of the Hispanic people. Sung vespers on the 11th (little did I know that Vespers would one day become my daily prayer as an SSM), processions, luminarios, dinners, and a dance! Now is that not CELEBRATING our special Lady!
Sad to say I no longer celebrate Guadalupe in this high fashion, in fact this year I did not go to one of our Hispanic parishes to take in the specialness of this day.
"Give Us This Day" reflection for today notes that the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is truly an Advent feast as O.L of Guadalupe was HOPE to a people who had no hope because of their suffering at the hands of the Spaniards. THis feast is about the"Incarnation of the Gospel, the good news of God's salvtion among us, here in this land...about who we are and who we are to become as Church in the world, a mestizo, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and mutli-cultural Church."
THis feast truly is an Advent feast "for the simple reason that her Son seeks always to be born anew in us...inviting us to give him a home in which to be born again among us this year and every year."
What an invitation! To birth Jesus anew...right here in our homes and hearts, our neighborhoods and our places of work, our Church and among our friends! How will you respond to this invitation? Are you willing to respond as Mary did: be it done in me?
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