Thursdays for TeacherThursday, October 15, 2009

Feast Day Celebration Our Lady of Guadalupe

Presented by Anadelia L. Morgan

Story of The Apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe

"Call me and call my image Santa Maria de Guadalupe".It's believed that the word Guadalupe was actually a Spanish mis-translation of the local Aztec dialect. The word that Mary probably used was Coatlallope which means "one who treads on snakes"! Within six years of this apparition, six million Aztecs had converted to Catholicism.

Looking at the Image

Has preserved since Dec. 12, 1531 in Mexico City, MX

Feast Day Celebration

• Midnight Serenade & Overnight Vigil• Mañanitas– Matachines– Serenade – Prayers & Offerings– Reenactment

Mananitas -Matachines• El Monarca, the monarch (Montezuma)• The captains (2-4 of Montezuma's main generals)• La Malinche, or Malintzin• El Toro, (Hernan Cortes) the bull dressed in buffalo skin with the

animal's horns on his head• Abuelo, the grandfather, and Abuela, grandmother. • The most basic symbol of the dance is good vs. evil, with good

prevailing. Montezuma and la Malinche represent good, and the bull who represents mischief, Hernán Cortés, represents Satan or evil.

• Danza a la Virgen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxN9YeFTDO0&feature=related

Prayer and Offering

• Procession of people into church w/ offerings (flowers, toys, etc.)

• Prayers –Intercessor and protector

• Novena • Promises and offerings (knees)

Reenactment

How OLG affects Mexican Culture• In 1810 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla initiated the bid for

Mexican independence with his Grito de Dolores, yelling words to the effect of "Death to the Spaniards and long live the Virgin of Guadalupe!" When Hidalgo's mestizo-indigenous army attacked Guanajuato and Valladolid, they placed "the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which was the insignia of their enterprise, on sticks or on reeds painted different colors" and "they all wore a print of the Virgin on their hats

• In 1914, Emiliano Zapata's peasant army rose out of the south against the government of Porfirio Diaz. Though Zapata's rebel forces were primarily interested in land reform—"tierra y libertad" (land and liberty) was the slogan of the uprising—when Zapata's peasant troops penetrated Mexico City, they carried Guadalupan banners.

• The Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes once said that "...one may no longer consider himself a Christian, but you cannot truly be considered a Mexican unless you believe in the Virgin of Guadalupe."[40]

• Nobel Literature laureate Octavio Paz wrote in 1974 that "the Mexican people, after more than two centuries of experiments, have faith only in the Virgin of Guadalupe and the National Lottery".

References

• www.sancta.org Our Lady of Guadalupe-Patroness of the Americas

• www.catholic.org Catholic Online• www.jkmi.com The Missionary Image of Our

Lady of Guadalupe• www.youtube.com