EAmong the thorns of an orange, reminiscent of the crown that his Son suffered, God wanted to appear a few centuries ago in the eastern end of these countries: the Mother of the Dominicans.
Sweet, patient, and serene, she kept the faith of a whole people; tenderly redeeming our desire to survive in the random Caribbean of these parts. Very faithful to Hispaniola’s vocation that no one knows why it was the first that Providence made the Primate.
Wrapped in the colors that Trinitarians would later give to the National Flag, she launched red, warning that there is a valid baptism in the sacrifice of martyrs; and what, even God! one rests in blue, because he tilts the waters and the sky with light blows, with the celestial imprint.
And he crucifies in white, fulfilling justly as in the baptism of Jesus and making room for the surprises of the Spirit, of the help from above, who gives high graces.
Intercessor before her Son who collects national prayer and acts as a bearer of popular demands; our lawyer in cases that are expressed as a cry for the needs and sufferings of the nation.
Flanked by the divine jealousy of Mercedes and Carmen Altagracia, she continues to cover her children with her star cloak; suffocating the flames and smoke of hell like the “Gate of Heaven”, which will never be defeated by the gates of hell.
Her image strengthened the Dominican house, which always greeted her with greetings and praises, repeating in prayers and litanies the words of the Angel of the Lord and of St. Elizabeth. In a Rosary that stops in stations of joy, pain, glory and light. And the country meditates suffering with “God save you” the prophecies of glory that produce joy.
Therefore, the name of the Second Vatican Council according to which the family is the little church was already life and a reality in the Dominican family; for, indeed, there was already an authentic church among us because of the morning prayer and the evening rosary.
In addition, in 1965, the proposal of Julio César Castaños Espaillat (in the Marian and Mariological Congress of that year) that, for the same reasons, the Virgin Mary be declared: The organizer of the Dominican Society was already valid.
The Virgin of Altagracia is taken in processions and receives her children on pilgrimages at the end of the pilgrimages. And the mother receives the promises and the promises of the faithful. But he does not ask for or expect any devotion that will separate us from the final destiny of worshipers in Spirit and Truth. Because of the delicacy of heaven and the merits of her Son, she became the Queen of the Apostles and Pilgrims … I would say. For what are they more than men, more than the sons of Eve in exile?
She also reigns, as a reward for her faithfulness proved in the martyrdom of being the Mother of God, who came as a sign of contradiction; and, with the prophetic destiny expressed by Simeon, that a sword will pierce his soul. For the intention of many hearts to be revealed, or what is the same, so that many people may reach the sincerity of the heart and see God. That is why today, which is the day of the Virgin of Altagracia, “protective and spiritual mother of the Dominican people”, I bow my grateful heart to the Mother of God; and I reverently accept her motherhood. And I approach him as a child of the Church, in the most popular and affectionate devotion, saying:
Save Chiquitica from Higüey!