{"id":1223,"date":"2003-12-12T02:55:45","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T09:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2010-05-19T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T09:57:07","slug":"our-lady-not-just-for-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/our-lady-not-just-for-catholics\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady: Not Just for Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any church wanting to attract Latinos “that doesn’t take into account how deeply that message [of Our Lady of Guadalupe] is rooted in the Latino identity … is pretty well doomed,” said Father Francisco Schulte, a scholar at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our Lady: Not Just for Catholics<\/p>\n

Latinos’ long-revered Virgen de Guadalupe, whose feast day is today, now occupies a place in other denominations.<\/p>\n

In some Catholic parishes it’s a bigger day than Christmas or Easter: the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Beginning well before dawn, worshipers today will gather to celebrate the brown-skinned mother of Jesus who, legend says, appeared before a poor Mexican peasant in 1531.<\/p>\n

But the celebration isn’t just for Catholics anymore. Increasingly, the pregnant Virgen de Guadalupe is turning up in other Latino-dominated churches as a way to make worshipers feel at home while honoring the mother of Christ and champion of the downtrodden.<\/p>\n

Any church wanting to attract Latinos “that doesn’t take into account how deeply that message [of Our Lady of Guadalupe] is rooted in the Latino identity … is pretty well doomed,” said Father Francisco Schulte, a scholar at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn.<\/p>\n

Our Lady: Not Just for Catholics
\nDecember 12, 2003
\nLA Times
\nWilliam Lobdell and Jennifer Mena, Times Staff Writers
\nMore at http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2003\/dec\/12\/local\/me-guadalupe12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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