La Virgencita
I usually don't post here but I wanted write this weird thing down...I doubt if any of you out there can relate!
It's just that I always pray to the Virgin of Guadelupe for everything I need and have for many years and it starts to get almost very weird how frequently my prayers are answered. Does anyone know about the devotion to the virgin in Mexico? I did go to her shrine and see the people crawling on their knees to it. There are many retablos and things about her miracles.
I do understand the devotion. I feel it myself, in fact. It's sort of hard to explain and so I won't go into the personal, spiritual, religous aspects of it. This post is just about the cultural aspects.
(What's funny is that the house I got married in had a huge Virgin of G mural and some of the wedding pictures had it in it but it turned out our photographer was also a reporter and he put us on the front page of the Sunday Supplement and in it the reporter said I LOOKED like a Virgin Mary. That was an accident. I don't actually try to dress like the Virgin.)
I want to make my own groovy folk are painting on a piece of tin. I think it would be amusing to do one of these "Gracias a la virgencita for helping me finish my dissertation." With a picture of me in front of the computer and the virgin over my head, blessing me...I did thank her in the introduction to my dissertation.
Here's a set of emails from Ana Lopez, who does these controversial paintings of the virgin. I don't always get upset if someone does a rif on the virgin--there are respectful and arrogant, jerky ways to turn cultural stuff in to art.
http://www.almalopez.net/ORemail/em052801.html
I'm sure there's more detail on www.almalopez.net
If you want to know more about retablos, you can look here....
http://www2.uah.es/iuen/little_miracles.htm
I've been looking for a picture of one of them and all I can find is this postmodern blather!
this is cute...a little santo maker
http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/santos/YoungSantSet.htm
Here's one...it's not the real, down home kind though
http://www.theresasgallery.com/gallery/retablos/6.htm
Anyway, got some troubles? La virgencita will help. You don't have to be Catholic or anything (although I am). She's for everybody. So pray to the virgencita today! ***
***Note: That is a joke...I was doing a fake Virgin of Guadelupe AM radio commercial. Sort of like Ginsana. If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, never mind.
Goes off to light a candle. In front of the Virgin of the Assumption santo--Dude, they are all the same virgin.
It's just that I always pray to the Virgin of Guadelupe for everything I need and have for many years and it starts to get almost very weird how frequently my prayers are answered. Does anyone know about the devotion to the virgin in Mexico? I did go to her shrine and see the people crawling on their knees to it. There are many retablos and things about her miracles.
I do understand the devotion. I feel it myself, in fact. It's sort of hard to explain and so I won't go into the personal, spiritual, religous aspects of it. This post is just about the cultural aspects.
(What's funny is that the house I got married in had a huge Virgin of G mural and some of the wedding pictures had it in it but it turned out our photographer was also a reporter and he put us on the front page of the Sunday Supplement and in it the reporter said I LOOKED like a Virgin Mary. That was an accident. I don't actually try to dress like the Virgin.)
I want to make my own groovy folk are painting on a piece of tin. I think it would be amusing to do one of these "Gracias a la virgencita for helping me finish my dissertation." With a picture of me in front of the computer and the virgin over my head, blessing me...I did thank her in the introduction to my dissertation.
Here's a set of emails from Ana Lopez, who does these controversial paintings of the virgin. I don't always get upset if someone does a rif on the virgin--there are respectful and arrogant, jerky ways to turn cultural stuff in to art.
http://www.almalopez.net/ORemail/em052801.html
I'm sure there's more detail on www.almalopez.net
If you want to know more about retablos, you can look here....
http://www2.uah.es/iuen/little_miracles.htm
I've been looking for a picture of one of them and all I can find is this postmodern blather!
this is cute...a little santo maker
http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/santos/YoungSantSet.htm
Here's one...it's not the real, down home kind though
http://www.theresasgallery.com/gallery/retablos/6.htm
Anyway, got some troubles? La virgencita will help. You don't have to be Catholic or anything (although I am). She's for everybody. So pray to the virgencita today! ***
***Note: That is a joke...I was doing a fake Virgin of Guadelupe AM radio commercial. Sort of like Ginsana. If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, never mind.
Goes off to light a candle. In front of the Virgin of the Assumption santo--Dude, they are all the same virgin.