Although I make no attempts to predict exact dates for the changes described in this book, one key date can be cited with confidence, namely December 12, 2031. This is the feast-day of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the year that marks the five-hundredth anniversary of the original apparition to Juan Diego. The event will unquestionably be commemorated with a vast celebration of Mexican and Chicano Catholic identity, both north and south of the Rio Grande.
