- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction The Descendants
- Prologue Nepantla
- Part I The Texas-Mexico Borderlands
- 1 The Miracle Tree
- 2 The Rebel
- 3 The Venerable
- 4 The Activist and the Ordinance
- 5 The Bonder and the Dealer
- 6 The Agents
- 7 The Wall
- 8 The Chokepoint
- 9 The Woman in the Woods
- 10 The Healing
- Part II The New York–Canada Borderlands
- 11 The Sort of Homecoming
- 12 The Trade
- 13 The War
- 14 The Saint
- 15 The Activist and the Obelisk
- 16 The Movement
- 17 The Mother Tongue
- 18 The Bridge
- 19 The River
- 20 The Words That Come Before All Else
- Epilogue The United States of In-between
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
The Healing
The Healing
- Chapter:
- (p.130) 10 The Healing
- Source:
- All the Agents and Saints
- Author(s):
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
Her continued search for miracles leads the author to the Flores family. Gilbert, the patriarch, is famous in Robstown, Texas, for spotting la Virgen de Guadalupe beneath the pulpit of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church after its carpet got ripped out for replacement. The author accepts Gilbert’s invitation to attend a “healing mass,” wherein parishioners are tapped on the forehead with a golden monstrance by a priest and then fall in rapture on the floor. After hours of debating, she finally decides to partake in the ritual, too, as part of her own spiritual journey as a lapsed (yet hopeful) Catholic.
Keywords: Santa Barraza, Homero Vera, U.S. Mexico border, La Virgen de Guadalupe, healing mass, Catholicism, spiritual mestizaje, Robstown, Texas, Tejano, miracle
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction The Descendants
- Prologue Nepantla
- Part I The Texas-Mexico Borderlands
- 1 The Miracle Tree
- 2 The Rebel
- 3 The Venerable
- 4 The Activist and the Ordinance
- 5 The Bonder and the Dealer
- 6 The Agents
- 7 The Wall
- 8 The Chokepoint
- 9 The Woman in the Woods
- 10 The Healing
- Part II The New York–Canada Borderlands
- 11 The Sort of Homecoming
- 12 The Trade
- 13 The War
- 14 The Saint
- 15 The Activist and the Obelisk
- 16 The Movement
- 17 The Mother Tongue
- 18 The Bridge
- 19 The River
- 20 The Words That Come Before All Else
- Epilogue The United States of In-between
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
