Blogging again from San Luis Potosi, Mexico tonight. I had the opportunity this evening to visit the old town center. San Luis is now a huge (and growing) city of 1,000,000 people, but it is an old city. Very old. First it was a Aztec settlement many years ago. Then of course the Spanish made claim to it. Both wanting to exploit the minerals and metals to be dug from the nearby Sierra Madre.
The most beautiful sights in the old town are the Roman Catholic churches, and yes, you can certainly believe that there is no other religion in this country! Certainly not in San Luis. There are actually 35 Catholic Churches in the old town proper, and I could almost consider calling every one of them a cathedral, at least by American standards. I got to go inside three of the oldest, largest and most beautiful. They were just magnificent, and all within walking distance of one another.
Each of them had Mass tonight, and as I, the tourist, got out of the way, the faithful were filling each of them. Young and old, singles and families. I couldn´t help feeling as I watched this, the purity of faith here among these Catholics in these ancient sanctuaries. Not purity as in free from sin, but as in undivided, as in unadulterated. The focus here is not on being inclusive. The focus is on meeting a covenant. There is a huge difference.
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