![]() That same year, hundreds claimed to have seen Guadalupe in the grime of a kitchen window in Oxnard. In 1992, an Episcopal priest led services underneath a diseased Chinese elm in North Hollywood on which he said sap had formed into her shape. Though it’s an area where the biggest city is named after a Virgin Mary - L.A.’s original name was El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles - Guadalupe sightings in Southern California are rare. “Since she has been faithful to them, they are faithful to her - in fact devoted to her and seeking her accompaniment in all the joys and crises of life.” “For 500 years, she has faithfully accompanied her people in this clash and encounter of peoples called America,” he said. That doesn’t surprise Timothy Matovina, a Notre Dame theology professor who specializes in Latino Catholicism. But in recent years, as American Catholicism has increasingly turned Latino, and especially Mexican, it’s the Guadalupe manifestation of Mary that has popped up the most. People in the United States have reported cameos by the Virgin Mary on terrestrial things - on tortillas or grilled cheese sandwiches, hidden within a billboard in New Orleans, or as part of a Chicago underpass - for decades. “We don’t know how the Spirit works, but events like this point us to a higher reality,” he said, noting that even non-Catholics walk by and linger. “She’s telling us,” Gomez said, “not to lose faith.”įather Cordero doesn’t call what’s in front of his rectory an apparition but a “sign” of something bigger. Briseida Gomez keeps a dried rose in her office that she once grabbed from the puddle. She said people already attribute miracles to this Guadalupe - arthritis cured, citizenship applications granted, bills magically paid. ![]() Leticia Suarez, 48, lives down the street and tends to the flowers left outside on a daily basis. Kazemi is familiar with Saracho's work she directed a staged reading of Saracho's play "Enfrascada" while at DePaul and had the opportunity to meet and collaborate with the playwright.The church’s two official, larger Guadalupe shrines - a statue near the confessional booths, and a fountain in the back - look lonely by comparison. She is a graduate of DePaul University's MFA directing program and has worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Victory Gardens, Silk Road Rising, Next Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and Chicago Dramatists. She is the founding artistic director of The Blind Owl, a collective of dedicated performers, artists, and activists. The play is directed by Azar Kazemi, a visiting director and theater adjunct faculty member. Shriver, a married woman who desperately wants to be a mother. The audience meets an assortment of visitors to the makeshift shrine, including Tony, a self-appointed guardian of the shrine who travels to the underpass daily from his home in Elgin Ofelia, a woman from Mexico who cares for her nephew with cerebral palsy Matt, a cynical jogger who runs past the underpass regularly Magdalena, a Polish-American nurse who brings her mother to worship at the shrine Terri, a young woman who arrives at the shrine to seek solace from relationship issues with her fiancé and Mrs. The play begins at the five-year anniversary of the sighting and is told in a series of monologues. Performances are set for Friday, April 19, to Sunday, May 5, in ECC Arts Center's SecondSpace Theatre.
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