{"id":703,"date":"2011-02-01T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2011\/02\/mexican-traditions.html"},"modified":"2011-02-01T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T11:25:00","slug":"mexican-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2011\/02\/mexican-traditions.html","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Last night I arrived late to a parishioner\u2019s house for a rosary in anticipation for February 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, the Feast of the Presentation.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>When I got out of my car two young boys came up to me and gave me five.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>At the same time a lady called out to me from the door, \u201ccome on in Padre.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>The young boys looked at me surprised.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>One said in an excited voice, \u201cI\u2019ve seen you at church.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>Are you el Padre?\u201d<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>I said yes.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>The other one said even more excited, \u201care you God?\u201d<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>I said no.<\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">In between the mysteries of the rosary a Christmas song was sung and young girls held beautiful embroidered cloths, one girl on each side of the cloth.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>A statue of baby Jesus was placed over each cloth and the girls swayed him back and forth as they sang.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>At the end of the rosary, the young girls dressed up the statues with beautiful custom made clothes and placed the largest baby Jesus at the nativity scene.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>Small candles surrounded the nativity scene and the parish\u2019s pilgrim Our Lady of Guadalupe was placed above.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">The house was full of neighbors, I knew all of them.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>After the rosary we shared a wonderful meal and watched a video of the celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe at the village of the host family.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">It was a beautiful evening where I saw very old Catholic traditions alive and well.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>February 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, forty days after Christmas, commemorates the day Jesus was presented to the Temple according to Jewish law.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>This is why baby Jesus is dressed up at this celebration, so he may be presented at the Temple.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>In Mexico, those who found a baby Jesus in the Rosca de Reyes (Epiphany Cake) are responsible for bringing tamales for the February 2<sup>nd<\/sup> celebration.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">Traditions such as this one play a very important role in the lives of Latin American Catholics.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>These old and venerable traditions came by way of Spain and can be traced back for centuries.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>They are a beautiful expression of the faith of Latin America where the Catholic Church has enjoyed a central and public role in civic life.<span style=\"font-size: +0\"> <\/span>It is a strong public faith that even antagonistic and anti-clerical regimes have not been able to extinguish.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I arrived late to a parishioner\u2019s house for a rosary in anticipation for February 2nd, the Feast of the Presentation. 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