and respect,” she explains.
This is how she personally lives her faith and love towards Our Lady, but she is part of millions of people that participate in special traditions to honor her. She says the Villa is a very special place, she took her daughter there to thank Our Lady for the miracle of her birth and good health. There she says, people adorn hallways with expression of gratitude in the form of paintings or drawings from people to whom a miracle was granted, and says these are extraordinary expressions of faith.
When asked to explain her faith and trust in Our Lady, she says it is complicated. Culturally, in her tradition of Catholicism she sees a male God that is part of a trinity and is all-powerful. “My lord the creator, to whom I owe everything that I am, his Son Jesus Christ my Saviour, and the Holy Spirit, His presence in me,” she proclaims. However, she says that His mother feels more close to her; she thinks this could be due to her female nature, especially her maternal nature. She talks about this being a point of connection, “even though I could not possess her dignity of Mother of God, Holy and Pure.”