My wife, with care, carefully
cradled your statue - from the
home it had adorned - to ours.
Preeminence - our altar
niche alive; purchase of fresh
flowers; the praying, kissing,
and the loving caressing;
kind community whose hearts
are emboldened, set aflame
for our Lady and her Son
as her image comes to rest
from one faith house to the next.
Gary Edward Geraci
A treasured tradition among many Filipino Catholic households - a statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, travels from one household to the next and stays for about a month before traveling to the next family.
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