Posadas Navideñas: Filipino Advent
The festive Filipino disposition: non-Hispanic traditionalists might dismiss it as ‘spectacle.'
The festive Filipino disposition: non-Hispanic traditionalists might dismiss it as ‘spectacle.'
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
"When I say, ‘Viva Cristo Rey! Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!’ then you can shoot."
"...that there be a hero in every Catholic, as in the time of Nero."
Above: the State of Puebla, Mexico. To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.– Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) Shoulders draped with chains, heads crowned with thorns, flesh punctured with cacti, ankles bound with fetters. Barefoot penitents stood, waiting to begin the annual Good Friday tradition: Procession…
The duty of the layperson is, pre-eminently, political.
But it is clear that the heretics have already manifestly put themselves in schism for decades.
Watching the murder attempt against President Trump eerily reminded me of Mexico's turbulent transition period.