Preparations Have Begun

for the celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe:

...As the annual feast-week influx (usually numbering around 7 million pilgrims each year) begins to converge on the Tepeyac Shrine in Mexico City, on this side of the border the yearly round of mass-celebrations for the "Empress of the Americas" likewise gets underway this weekend in no shortage of venues, the biggest of them -- at least, until the 12th Itself -- coming again on Sunday with the annual procession of some 40,000 Guadalupanos through East Los Angeles, culminating with an outdoor Stadium Eucharist....

Video at the link.