An afternoon Mass and Ash Wednesday celebration at St. Mark’s Anglican Church in Guadalajara went well, said church treasurer Shammah Anu, attracting three times more people than last year.

Christmas festivities may be long over in many parts of the world, but Mexico adds a postscript to the holiday season with the celebration of Día de la Candelaria on February 2.

Plane crash in Jalisco leaves seven dead

Seven people died aboard a Cessna 207 that crashed on Sunday, December 22, in a wooded area of Jalisco, near the border of the municipalities of Quitupan and Santa María del Oro, the Jalisco Civil Protection Unit reported.

Director Debra Matthew is not sure exactly how many years she has directed her group of professional and amateur musicians at Saint Mark’s Anglican Church in Guadalajara in their annual Advent presentation combining nine biblical readings with sing-along carols and choral anthems.

Including American Society stalwarts Maria de Soileau, Bruce Newby and Cliff Esser, these four ladies about to open the buffet line at the annual Thanksgiving Day dinner have almost 100 years of preparing the feasts between them.

Mozambican writer Mia Couto, one of the most important contemporary authors writing in Portuguese, will receive the prestigious 2024 FIL Literature Prize at the opening of the annual Guadalajara International Book Fair on November 30.