By: Eugenio Amézquita Velasco
Translation: Metro News Mx
-Dolores Hidalgo celebrates the Solemn Novena 2025 with fervor in honor of the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
-Farmers, musicians, livestock owners, doctors, and "escaramuzas" open the novena on November 28th with processions and Mass.
-The footrace takes place on November 30th, joined by masons, stylists, restaurant owners, and pro-life groups.
-Monsignor Víctor Alejandro Aguilar Ledesma presides over the Eucharistic concelebration on December 3rd alongside invited priests.
-On December 8th, the "Mañanitas" with mariachi and the Solemn Mass are celebrated, with surprise events throughout the day.
Father Juan Galván Sánchez, rector of the Temple of the Third Order of Our Seraphic Father Saint Francis of Assisi, announced the complete program for the Solemn Novena 2025 in honor of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, which will be celebrated in Dolores Hidalgo, Cradle of National Independence, Guanajuato. The broadcasts of the celebrations can be viewed on the Facebook page, at the address Templo de Tercera Orden -https://www.facebook.com/templodeterceraorden-. "We will broadcast the celebrations of the Mass and main events," specified the diocesan priest.
The festivities begin on Friday, November 28th, with the participation of guilds of farmers, musicians' unions, pyrotechnicians, musical ensembles, livestock association, "escaramuzas charras," veterinary doctors, and war bands, led by Juan de Dios Aguilar, Marcos Mora, Juan Manuel Araiza and family, Francisco José Carrillo Pérez, Andrés Salvador Casillas Barajas, the Vázquez family, Manuel Gómez, Jesús Gerardo Martínez Cabrera, Juan Raymundo Aarón Pérez Hernández, Gerardo Sánchez, Juan Grimaldo, Modesto Luna, Luis Sainz Obregón, Jesús Antonio Sánchez, Jaime Sandoval, Juan Jesús Venegas, and Irving de Jesús Christian Bárcenas.
On Saturday, November 29th, tanners, sandal makers ("huaracheros"), and the Rayas family of Mexico join in, led by Carlos Emilio Rangel, Francisco Gómez, Crescencio Gómez, Benjamín Rangel Mellado, and the Rayas family. On Sunday the 30th, at 9:00 a.m., the footrace will be held through the streets of the city center. That same day, masons, bricklayers, blacksmiths, balcony makers, stylists, hairdressers, women's hairstylists, and florists participate, along with restaurant owners, SIMAPAS, and the Pro-Vida Group, led by Miguel Camarillo Rodríguez, Alejandro Hernández, Martín Regalado, Pablo Hernández Gómez, Sabás González, Arturo Mendoza, Juan Antonio Lazo, Joel Bárcenas, Marco Antonio Cervantes Picón, Amalia Alma Pérez Cervantes, Michel Flores Sierra, Bibiana Sierra, Ariadna Yaneli Luna Rodríguez, Charly Martínez, María de los Ángeles Betancourt Méndez, Gregorio Paredón, Remedios Sandoval, Alejandro Soria, Jacobo Rodríguez Aguayo, Lic. Jennifer Elayne Edith Rodríguez Cárdenas, Dalis María Aguayo Rayas, Cristina Ramírez, Adriana Pérez López, and Blanca Sierra Cortez.
On Monday, December 1st, shoemakers, shoe stores, shoe shiners, health center personnel, seamstresses, tortilla makers, Regional Hospital employees, ISSSTE children's daycare, Radio Reyna, Centro Médico Santo Domingo, Clínica Garay, and Mexican Postal Service participate, with a welcome to the Clínica Santa Fe guild. The leaders are Yolanda Valdez Manzano, María de Jesús Sánchez, María Severina Solís, Casilda Dolores and Nicolasa Vega, Francisca Juárez, Delfina Barajas, the Rodríguez Monzón family, Francisco Castillo, Silvia Jiménez, Julio González, Benito Méndez, Arturo Mercado, Juan Gabriel Covarrubias, and Gonzalo Calzada C.
On Tuesday, December 2nd, at 1:00 p.m., Mass and the Anointing of the Sick will be celebrated, with the participation of the Municipal Presidency, city and Adjuntas del Río carpenters, Fábrica Recu-Grim, and poultry vendors, led by Lic. Adrián Hernández Alejandri, Ma. Socorro Álvarez, David Alarcón, Leonardo Villanueva, Jacinto Mendiola, Javier Álvarez, Amalia Álvarez, José Luis Díaz, Virginia Barajas, Víctor Gloria, Centolio Jiménez López, Miguel Ángel Grimaldo Villanueva, the García García family, and the García Barrera family.
On Wednesday, December 3rd, at 8:30 p.m., Monsignor Víctor Alejandro Aguilar Ledesma, Bishop of Celaya, will preside over the Eucharistic concelebration accompanied by invited priests. That day, bakers, waiters, teachers, administrative staff, students, and education workers of all levels participate, led by José Luis Hernández Arcíbar and family, César Padierna and family, Martha Cecilia Alvarado, Janet Sánchez Beltrán, Silvia Jiménez Jiménez, Ma. Soledad Aguilar Gonzáles, Ma. del Consuelo Alejandri and family, Juan Luciano Morales and family, the Manzano Lugo family, and J. Elías Frías González.
On Thursday, December 4th, wool-mill workers ("obrajeros") and funeral homes join in, led by Agustín Barajas Rodríguez and family, Eduardo Salazar Muñoz and family, Juan Carlos and family Barajas Reyes, the Arredondo Tapia family, the Jiménez Morales family, Agustín Barajas Picón, and Francisco Romero Hernández.
On Friday the 5th, butchers, livestock introducers, block cutters ("tablajeros"), and municipal slaughterhouse workers participate, led by Nancy Piñón Carrillo and Juan Ibarra García. On Saturday the 6th, at 6:00 p.m., a concert of songs inspired by the Purísima will be offered, and that same day, potters, ceramicists, and material distributors for these trades join in, led by Juan Vázquez Bárcenas, Adolfo Romero Moctezuma, Laureano Oláez Cabrera, and Juan Luis Rodríguez Guerra.
The vigil of the festivity, on Sunday, December 7th, will be led by the major and minor commerce guilds, Mercado Independencia, and Mercado Hidalgo, led by the Bárcenas Godínez family and the González Martínez family.
On Monday the 8th, the day of the fiesta, Mass will be celebrated at 8:00 a.m., the "mañanitas" with mariachi at 9:00 a.m., and the Solemn Mass at noon, with surprise events throughout the day.
The Octave of the fiesta will be on Sunday, December 14th, with operators of SPF, mechanics, electromechanics, spring makers ("muelleros"), tire repairers ("talacheros"), vulcanizers, gas workers, firefighters, taxi drivers, Flecha Amarilla and Flecha de Oro buses, urban and suburban buses, general cargo trucks, material suppliers, tourist transportation, cargo taxis, private motor vehicles, and Turismo Ruta 1810, with a welcome to the Scouts guild.
The leaders are Juan Manuel Cervantes Hurtado, Juan Manuel and Francisco Javier Cervantes Silva, Ma. del Socorro Rodríguez de Armas, Yesenia Armas Rodríguez, Jaime Ávalos Ortiz, Cristina Flores, Jaime Ávalos, Juan Martín Gutiérrez, Manuel Frausto, Ricardo Márquez Rubio, José Gerardo González Garay, Juan Manuel Frausto, Juan Gómez, Ignacio Lugo, Horacio Bárcenas Deanda, Miguel Eduardo Mejía, Juan Huerta Carrillo, Juan José Mata Serrato, Delfino Guerrero García, and J. Concepción García Cano.
On Monday, December 15th, at 5:00 p.m., the vehicular caravan will take place from the Municipal Presidency esplanade, and at 6:00 p.m., Mass with the blessing of motor vehicles.
Throughout the entire novena, processions and the entry of the wax (cera) will be held at 8:00 p.m., Eucharistic celebrations at 8:30 p.m. and 8:00 a.m., in addition to confessions at 8:40 a.m.
Father Juan Galván Sánchez invited the faithful of Dolores to participate devoutly in these Marian celebrations, also broadcast on the official Facebook page of the Temple of the Third Order. "Let's preserve our traditions," he expressed. #MetroNewsMx #GuanajuatoDesconocido
