This year's celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Joseph of Cupertino Church is on Friday, December 15. As in all the years, the story of the apparition of Our Lady at the Tepeyac Hill in Mexico is reenacted. After the play, students from the St. Joseph of Cupertino School are doing the Aztec dance. Aztec Dance is an indigenous dance tradition of Central Mexico based on the cultural legacy of the Chichimec/Otomi tradition warrior tribes that lived north of the “Aztec” empire at the time of the Spanish invasion. Originally, the dance is done to worship the gods and to stay in contact with nature. It is said that the dance was also considered a ritual cleansing of body and soul. The dance has been adopted by Catholics as an expression of worship for the one true God. The celebration of the Feast begins with a multilingual praying of the Holy Rosary at 6pm in the church. This is followed by a Eucharistic celebration at 7pm. A simple reception follows after Mass at the either Meditation Garden or at the Fr. Greg Ng Community Center, depending on the weather.