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Our Lady of Guadalupe Playlist

by Filed Under: 12 December, 12 December Saints, Our Lady of Guadalupe 2 Comments

Dad loves having music playing during the day.  Here is a simple list that he and Rose came up with before leaving for Mass.

 

– Our Lady of Guadalupe by Molly Chesna  – Mother of the Americas – La Guadalupana – The Amazing and Miraculous Image of OLOG – Ave Maria by Luciano Pavarotti  – Salve Regina  – Queen of Peace by Danielle Rose  – I Beheld Her by Cap Singers  – The Angelus – Hail Holy Queen by Danielle Rose – Hail Holy Queen Enthroned Above May Crowning Song – Ave Maris Stella  – Alma Redemptoris Mater

Sugar and Spice…

by Filed Under: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Recipe

and everything nice, that’s what reminds us of Our Lady of Guadalupe.OLOG Statue

We celebrated the feast day of Our Lady Guadalupe on Sat., Dec. 11 instead of Dec. 12.  Our parish was granted permission by our Bishop to move the feast day for a Solemnity and First class celebration since Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patron saint of our diocese and her original feast day fell on Gaudete Sunday (this year).

We kept it simple with a field trip to the Mexican Market and a small Our Lady of Guadalupe Tea Lunch inspired from Shower of Roses and Cottage Blessings. For dinner we had chicken tacos with rice and beans.  Rose and I made Our Lady of Guadalupe’s Crispies for dessert, a family favorite.  The Crispies are  made with a little sugar and spice and remind us of Our lady of Guadalupe.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, ora pro nobis.

OLOG field tripField trip to the Mexican Market, Rancho San Miguel (St. Michael Ranch)

The girls and their friends were thrilled with the bright, yummy desserts.  They had a great time looking at the ethnic dishes; cow’s tongue, “fish head with eyes” (tilapia), pig’s feet……  They decided to stick with rice and beans.

  OLOG Tea Our Lady of Guadalupe Tea Lunch

crispies  Our Lady of Guadalupe’s Crispies (cinnamon chips)

  • Flour tortillas
  • Cinnimon
  • Sugar
  • Oil

Directions:

  1. heat oil on stove
  2. mix cinnamon and sugar together
  3. cut tortilla into triangles
  4. fry tortilla wedges until crisp (fry a small amount at a time)
  5. remove tortilla wedges from oil
  6. place tortilla crisps on cooling rack, over a drip pan/cookie sheet
  7. generously sprinkle tortilla crisps with sugar/cinnamon mixture
  8. turn the crisps over and repeat step 7
  9. cool and serve

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She Looks Like Me

by Filed Under: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Sparkles

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Sparkles with her Our Lady of Guadalupe statue in our first Mary Garden

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My husband and I know little about our exact heritage.  We are Mexican with  some Italian, French, German, Spanish Basque and… God only knows what else.

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Our eldest, Rose, looks nothing like us.  She was born with blue eyes and fair skin.  She resembles past generations.  My grandmother and great-grandmothers (on both sides) had green eyes, light hair with fair skin.  My husband’s mother has fair skin with green eyes.

ella on her bday at chevy 5.18.07

Our next daughter was Sparkles.  She is our “Mexican baby.”

Our third daughter, Sweetie, looks exactly like Rose.

All of our children have a beautiful devotion to Our Blessed Mother.  When they were younger, their devotion was driven by which Marian apparition looked most like themselves.  Sparkles would always light up when she would she Our Lady of Guadalupe.  “She looks just like me,”  she would exclaim.  Other times she would say, “That’s me!”  The sheer joy that she had knowing that Mary looked like her was heart warming.

sparkles in he garden v2

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Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, please pray for us.

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