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In 1940s Taos, New Mexico, the Fiesta of Guadalupe drew the whole town to church and into the streets. For Mexican American Catholics, this annual celebration—honoring the Virgin of Guadalupe—wove together prayer, tradition, and neighborhood life into a single day that defined who they were.
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Vespers are ending. The church doors open and families spill onto the plaza—children squinting in the late afternoon light, women in their best dresses, men pausing to talk. The air smells of candle wax and dust. For one day a year, the sacred and the social are one and the same.
Reflect
What religious or cultural gathering has shaped your sense of belonging to a community?