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I wanted to send you this article to let you know about the various "ladies" that are around. If you'll notice, most of them are being used in an anti-American way. Click the links for further information about these "ladies." Anyway, I hope you find this interesting.

Nuestra Señora de Estados Unidos
By Chilton Williamson Jr.
The ostensible reason for the now-prevalent use of Spanish by the Catholic Church in the United States is, of course, the prevalence of Mexican and other Spanish-speaking immigrants. Many of these immigrants, indeed, have no English, making the use of Spanish in dealing with them a convenience, if not exactly a necessity, for parish priests and Catholic welfare agencies.
The historical, social, and political circumstances giving rise to this usage are as familiar to Americans as Mexican faces in the streets and Mexican immigrants in search of day jobs hanging about on street corners. So far as the Catholic Church regards the resort to Spanish as a regular convenience and an occasional necessity, I have no quarrel with it.
But when the Church aids and abets Latino immigrants in wielding Spanish as a political and cultural weapon against the Anglophone peoples and their culture in this country, it goes too far—from the religious, as well as from the secular, perspective. And this is exactly what is happening.
Thus, the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church lists a great many recognized feasts, or saints’, days. Not quite one for every day in the year, but almost. Among them, the greatest saint of all is Mary, the Mother of Our Lord, who is honored by more than one feast day. These devotions include the Feast of Mary, Mother of God (January 1), Purification of the Virgin (February 2), Queen of Heaven (May 1), Assumption into Heaven (August 15), Our Lady of the Rosary (celebrating the Christian victory over the Turkish Muslim fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, October 7), and the Immaculate Conception (December 8). There are also feast days to recognize various Marian appearances on earth. Among these are Our Lady of Lourdes (February 11), Our Lady of Fatima (May 13), and…Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12).
Our Lady of Guadalupe is recognized as the patron saint of Mexico. She has always been more than a symbol of Mexican Faith; she has been as well the symbol of Mexican nationalism. But over the last several decades, Our Lady of Guadalupe has also become almost as significant in U.S. Catholic churches as it is in Mexican ones. (Though not quite: Twenty years ago, I attended mass at the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in Ciudad Juárez, where Masses are celebrated hourly from early morning until mid-afternoon, commencing with a vast procession led by the Archbishop in which the halt and the lame stagger along in their rags with the wealthy and able-bodied beneath a profusion of banners, standards, and crosses.)

And, whether parishioners of Mexican descent recognize it or not, the observance of her feast day has become as more a cultural and political statement than it is a religious devotion.

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