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Mississippi group celebrates ‘Our Woman of Guadalupe’ with procession, celebration
Printed 11:55 am Tuesday, December 13, 2022
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Members of St. Mary Basilica and the broader Hispanic catholic group in Adams County and Concordia Parish got here collectively Monday night to rejoice the Feast of Our Woman of Guadalupe with a procession, mass and celebration on the church on Union Avenue.
An genuine Mexican meal was ready for the celebration on the church’s Household Life Heart on Essential Avenue.
The Rev. Aaron Williams, rector of St. Mary, stated the feast comes on the finish of a twelve-day sequence of prayer the place the picture of Our Woman of Guadalupe that was carried in Monday evening’s procession was taken to totally different household houses within the space for group gatherings of prayer and music.
The feast in honor of Our Woman of Guadalupe goes again to the sixteenth century.
In keeping with Francicanmedia.org, Chronicles of that interval relate the story of a poor Indian named Cuauhtlatohuac who was baptized and given the title Juan Diego. He was a 57-year-old widower and lived in a small village close to Mexico Metropolis.
On Saturday morning, December 9, 1531, Diego was on his solution to a close-by barrio to attend Mass in honor of Our Woman. He was strolling by a hill referred to as Tepeyac when he heard lovely music just like the warbling of birds. A radiant cloud appeared and inside it a younger Native American maiden dressed like an Aztec princess. The girl spoke to him in his personal language and despatched him to the Bishop of Mexico, a Franciscan named Juan de Zumarraga. The Bishop was to construct a chapel the place the girl appeared.
Finally, the bishop informed Juan Diego to have the girl give him an indication. At about this identical time, Juan Diego’s uncle turned severely sick. This led poor Diego to attempt to keep away from the girl. The girl discovered Diego, nonetheless, assured him that his uncle would get better and supplied roses for Juan to hold to the bishop in his cape.
When Juan Diego opened his cape within the bishop’s presence, the roses fell to the bottom and the bishop sank to his knees. On Juan Diego’s cape appeared a picture of Mary precisely as she had appeared on the hill of Tepeyac. It was December 12, 1531.