Stone Soup Weekly Saturday Meal

Saturday, December 11, 2021, 12:00 pm until 1:30 pm
399 Main Street, Greenfield, MA - Red Door on Hope Street

Join us for lunch this Saturday to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patron Saint of Mexico!

In Mexico, the day is a statewide public holiday. The entire population is off, and schools and businesses are closed. Catholics all around the globe celebrate Our Lady Of Guadalupe Day with Mass, dancing, and celebration. In the United States, it has been honored as a day of prayer in solidarity with immigrants and refugees since 2016.

The story is that a newly Christianized Indigenous Mexican peasant, Juan Diego, had a vision of a woman (the Virgin Mary), who asked him to build a church in her honor. She spoke to him in the Aztec language Nahuatl. This apparition happened in 1531, just ten years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.

The day means many different things to many people. Over the years, Guadalupe has been used alternatively, and sometimes simultaneously, as a symbol of liberation as well as one of accommodation and control. However, the message of our Lady of Guadalupe could be interpreted to mean that it is okay for us to blend traditions. The Virgin of Guadalupe is still perceived as both a symbol heralding freedom and a signifier of submission. Our Lady of Guadalupe remains a powerful symbol of Mexican identity and faith, and her image is associated with everything from motherhood to feminism to social justice.

RSVP for this delicious Saturday lunch HERE!

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Thank you for being a part of the Stone Soup Café!

With Love,

Chef Kirsten & the Stone Soup Café crew