Dripping apotheosis in Calle Real in Castilleja de la Cuesta

If anyone wants to know how to experience the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, they just need to go to the Real street of Castilleja de la Cuesta. The bouquets of flowers, the furs, the blue suits, the first shoes, the incense, the songs, the greetings from bench to bench, the heels, the rockets… everything highlighted a day when the chorreones (the affectionate adjective of the brothers of the sacramental) They have been engraved in their collective identity.

And the descent of the Virgin, once the mass was over, triggered euphoria 625 years of immaculate devotion to the city’s patron saint (“devotion, honor and coat of arms”) and in whose honor the brotherhood of the Immaculate Conception was founded on June 9, 1478. Yesterday morning,…

But this section reviews the masses and this article has a longer introit than that of the Eucharist itself, in which the verse by Miguel del Cid from 1640 (also from a quarter of an hour ago) during the procession with raised cross, the notice of entry was read and the acceptance by kings of appointment as honorary elder brother and perpetual maidrespectively, following the custom established in 1987 by Juan Carlos and Sofía.

Let’s say that the mass had all the accessories presumed to have a main function. That is to say with all its virtues (preface of the sung anaphora, incense, raised candles) but also with all its faults: as no one follows the songs of the choir (some high notes have resisted), the whistles and echoes at the door, the reservation of places and the minority who kneel at the consecration, but we will not focus on them because these are known subjects.

Let us emphasize that the protest of faith took place at a good pace, the the choice of musical repertoire was very judiciousthe prayer of the faithful was intoned and the the homily was concise and juicy, concentrated within the recommended 9 minutes. The officiant began with a sermonizing tone, which struck, but it was only a few moments of acceptance before meeting in the middle of the ring with “two truths: original sin exists and Christ’s victory over it.” With his feet clenched, he even leaned forward boldly: “Many see original sin as a fable, a childish belief or an outdated legend, but its existence is extremely obvious, because our experience of evil is consistent and persistent“.

He even liked the rhetorical question of knowing where evil comes from if God is absolute goodness and this aporia led him to oppose this human stain to the Immaculate Conception of Mary of Nazareth after the collective prayer of the solemnity: “You have prepared a worthy house for your Son and, in anticipation of the death of your Son, you have preserved him from all sin”.

There he changed the milestone to the rapier and attributed much of the misfortune of this society to the fact that people “have not encountered Christ”, the effects of which he summarized in “three key words which the Immaculate Conception tells us: listening, grace and joy. This shot at the top for toeless riding.

Communion was distributed with relative ease despite the dimensions of the temple and the number of participants while the bouquets were removed from the inclined plane through which the image of the clouds in which the little angels floated would have descended. Then joy broke out. Note that the Mayor of Castilleja de la Cuesta, Carmen Herrera Coronil, and the director of the Bank of Spain branch, Fernando de Arteaga Larrú. And the most loyal ones on Calle Real, of course.