Let Them Speak For Themselves
Last week, here on campus, in connection with my Liturgy In Culture class, I attended a wonderful lecture on indigenous roots of the tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The visiting presenter, Dr. Timothy Matovina, Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, explained to us that, in addition to Spanish colonizers' devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, indigenous people fostered devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. [While he has previously published works on this topic, in his remarks here on campus, he was conveying results of his more recent research that will be in a paper he plans to get published soon. For that reason, I won't mention specifics from his research (and once his paper is published, I'll come back to this blog post and include a citation for his article so anyone interested can then read it).] For now, I'll just say that in his lecture, he mentioned that he studied what natives centuries ago actually said in their own words about Our Lady of Gua...