The pilgrimage
Why this road exists
To look at the image itself — cactus fiber that should have turned to dust, a pregnant mestiza clothed with the sun.
Thank her for a continent
To thank her for a continent. Guadalupe is why Mexico is Christian, and why the Americas have a mother who speaks Nahuatl.
Make a manda — a promise — and keep it
To make a manda — a promise — and keep it. That is still how ordinary families come.
What you come home with
To remember that evangelization can look like roses in December, not only like an argument.
