Dear Reader. And reading. Reading the title of this writing you probably think I'm going to make a kind of historical footnote. A dusting a longstanding rite to talk about it in effort to remember. And it is not. In fact, I was born talk about this month just because I'm surprised its vitality. Because I am amazed that even on Saturdays at 7:00 the parish is almost full of faithful who would not normally do so, and it is still amazing to know that still the Month of Mary rezandose chapels and parishes, neighborhoods and places , convents and hospitals ... Like when not so many years ago, my aunt and my grandmother took me out to pray the rosary to the plaza that many of you know. This year I decided to revive the tradition, for several reasons and secrets. With a strange taste I have noticed that I have not forgotten the ritual.
is the Month of Mary, as usual with these things, is precisely because people live. For the grandmother raising a grandchild and takes him to the parish in hopes of a mother who is always late and tired. For the mother who does not work, and takes her son who is happy running around the halls of the temple, happy as she is not. For the women who live alone, in these lives that seem to be always the same, every day the same, and partly for that reason and partly to break it, remember that between November 8 and December 8, should go to pray the Rosary. For the worker who takes a little longer arrival at the house and the dish of noodles for a month just because being there in front of that beautiful image, which makes the mother feel that long ago went. For the young who still have them, but is so far away it is as if it were, and even this ethereal and outdated it seems closer.
The Month of Mary must be the most traditional Catholics. Although the Chilean Adoration, which distributes leaflets with the prayers of the month, put the sentences with the pronoun "you" the power of the people is stronger, and continues to pray the "you." Even the most innovative youth choir is forced to yield to the invincible "Come and let us all," the official anthem of these days indisputable. And those same prayers that appear headed by Fr. Rodolfo Vergara Antúnez, whom no one remembered, but those paragraphs that begin with "Oh Mary!" afloat out of memory even of those who for years did not return to this tradition is still alive.
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Father Alfredo, our "spiritual guide," said the Catholic Church in the early twentieth century had four pillars: the Conservative Party, devotion to the Sacred Heart, devotion to the Virgin of Carmen and the Spiritual Exercises (San Ignacio). The first died a lot, even though many would view the UDI or a kind of rival DC. Devotions to the Sacred Heart and the Virgin del Carmen coming less often, although keeps some people are no longer marching 10 blocks of young (read "Banda of war", referring to the procession of the patron saint of Chile) in honor of the Lady of Caramel. The spiritual exercises are practiced by some, yes, but most of the unknown, and I suppose many would not submit to the way of choosing between "the two flags." Of the masses or speak, though it is possible to see full parishes in many parts, the hard data of the numbers are clear, and hopefully 20% of Catholics go. But it is, he lives, the Month of Mary.
Why? Perhaps because in this country of "outcasts" of parent (s) absent (s), the importance and necessity of the mother is of overwhelming intensity. Perhaps that is what gives meaning to the young man who feels distant, the old man and not recover more, the lady who never was, a, for a month, feeling that "our good Mother," believing that it is possible to "fill us with joy in the midst of the tribulations of this life and hope for the future" when we seem to have less meaning and purpose. Here she appears. "(...) The holiest and the best of mothers." As mother and the other, like getting up at 6:30 and go to see her, or spend an hour every day in your month.
Greetings
SE, LERM. Eduardo Peñailillo B.
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