Live from Tepeyac

Happy Birthday, Guadalupe... Feliz "Supertazón," Iglesia Norteamericana.

Here, two tastes of the continent's main celebration of Mexico's mother, America's "empress," its ripples running across the land all through this December night and continuing throughout the day.

First, the TV intro...



...and, of course, the lead-in to the Midnight Mass, its "entrance procession" without end:



And as ever, anyone who slept through it missed out.

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