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For many of us, today is Halloween, all hallows eve, the Vigil of All Saints, the last day of October, Mary’s month, month of the Rosary, month of the Queen of all saints.\u00a0 For many others, it’s also a day to walk another 40 miles toward the U.S. border or make a decision to turn back, in a Notre Dame t-shirt<\/a>, with a rosary in hand, amidst D<\/em>ia de Los Muertos celebrations, embracing “memento mori” <\/em>not as an spiritual discipline of choice, but a motivation to keep going. But there’s no us and them in prayer, in the communion of Saints, in Our Lady of (insert preferred locale<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Image by J. Michael Walker<\/a><\/p>\n

The poem below is an excerpt from a longer poem in Natalia Trevi\u00f1o’s recent chapbook, Virgin X<\/em><\/a>. I offer this here as a meditation on the relationship between liturgy and life in the face of what could feel like overwhelming events in the U.S. today. Our Lady of ______ and all the saints, pray for us.<\/p>\n

OUR LADY OF SAN JUAN DEL VALLE\/ SAN JUAN DE LOS LAGOS, DEPENDING ON WHICH SIDE OF THE BORDER YOU BELIEVE IN<\/p>\n

III. MIGRATING LA VIRGIN<\/p>\n

O Lady of San Juan de los Lagos,
\nYour eyes do not look down at us, half-shut.<\/p>\n

It is your dream, the whole Earth you carry above your head
\nwhere we do not fight for land,<\/p>\n

and we do not cross one another or jagged borders
\nwith our own travel-sized miracles: a miracle of a bottle of water;<\/p>\n

miracle of a photograph tucked under a bra; miracle
\nof a sandwich shared, made three million times,<\/p>\n

hundreds of miles away. You want us to swim in the one
\nocean, el mar, maria, your populated effigy,<\/p>\n

Great Mother Earth: as the dream, as the dreamer.
\nI’ve crossed the brown to Rio Grande,<\/p>\n

three hundred times or more
\nwith my Green Card, then my Blue Card,<\/p>\n

while other children crawled across pale deserts
\nhid under helicopters, bridged the two lands<\/p>\n

in question with their water bottles and work and bones,
\nMadre de Misericordia, Mother of Misery, of Mercy.<\/p>\n

The difference between these children and me
\nwas the color of our papers\u2014<\/p>\n

We have papers<\/em>, my father always said, papers!<\/em>
\nThough I’d asked once if he could tell my mom<\/p>\n

to please dry my back better after my shower
\nso the kids would stop it, stop saying it\u2014<\/p>\n

because somehow my back
\nstayed wet all day long.<\/p>\n

You have the same name as my grandmother’s,
\nMaria de Socorro, Mother of Mercy<\/p>\n

I am still learning the difference
\nbetween the prayer and the one who prays.<\/p>\n

Born in Mexico and raised in Tejas between two worlds, Natalia Trevi\u00f1o<\/a> bridges understandings between those separated by arbitrary human borders. She is a winner of several literary awards and currently a professor at NorthWest Vista College in San Antonio.\u00a0The poem above is reproduced with permission of the author.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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