Rayito de Luz

(mini-serie; Christmas/Navidad)

Mexico (Televisa) 2000

USA (Univision) 9/24/01 - 10/19/01.

USA (Telefutura) Christmas 2002

USA (Univision) Dec. 11, 2005 -

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These summaries are from Univision's 2001 season. The English summaries have not been checked for spelling or grammatical errors. You may share them, but you may not sell them or include them in anything you sell. In addition, you must give credit to all the sources, especially the authors, and to Telenovela-World (for the collection).

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AVANCES/RESÚMENES

Diario de Yucatan, 12/10/00: En el poblado de San Pedro, los seminaristas ensayan una canción. El hermano Cecilio (Miguel Pizarro) está ansioso por probar su invento para tocar las campanas sin esfuerzo y se lo muestra a Oscar, pero el mecanismo falla y Cecilio queda colgado del campanario. El padre Cervantes (Aarón Hernán) tiene problemas con Gertrudis (Delia Casanova): no le alcanza para pagar un préstamo que le hizo para corregir las goteras de la iglesia. Francisca (Mariana Levy) dice a José Niño (Gerardo Murguía) que quizá cerrará el negocio de las piñatas o cancelará sus clases de baile, pero deben ayudar al padre Cervantes. Oscar avisa que Cecilio está en peligro, Abel (Alan) trata de bajarlo pero derriba la estructura y cae al vacío. Oscar cuenta feliz la hazaña de Cecilio, Antonio, su padre, lo regaña y no deja que Hoternsia (Bárbara Ferré), su madre, lo consuele. Francisca se enoja con su herano Antonio. Gertrudis desea derribar una barda del seminario y encarga a Cruz (Luis Gatica) que consiga dinamita para hacerlo. Además pretende que el licenciado Justino (Juan Carlos Casasola) la secunde.—

USA 9/24-28/01. Cecilio arrives at the seminary. Un año despues. The seminarians rehearse in the chapel. Juan does repairs. Gertrudes insists on talking to padre Cervantes and demands that he pay her; he is 5 months behind. She demands that he write a check, even though he tells her he doesn’t have enough funds to cover the check. She tells her bird that now she has him and later talks to her lawyer: the check is the leverage she needs to get back the land the church has. Cecilio starts his invention for ringing the church bell automatically but gets caught by the rope and dangles high above the ground. José offers to buy piñatas from Francisca to help her pay for dancing lessons, but she refuses. She lives with her sister Hortensia and her sister’s husband Antonio who is drinking a lot and treats both his wife and son poorly. José gathers all the men in the village to hold a blanket into which Cecilio can fall; first, however, they catch Abel who had tried to help Cecilio. Then they catch Cecilio. At their meal, padre Cervantes reprimands Cecilio. This is not the first invention that has gone bad. What the seminary needs is a miracle: it has only 12 students versus the 50 it used to have. In the chapel, one of the seminarians hears a baby cry. Florencio is worried about his wife Ester’s health. The seminarians name the baby Juan de Luz. Antonio leaves his family to go to the U.S. Florencia, happy when his wife and children recover, gives padre Cervantes a blank check to pay all his debt. The seminarians decide to raise the baby. Mirna, who works for Gertrudis, has extra milk. Gertrudis is furious when she discovers this, and the fact that Mirna has been taking bread to the seminary. Padre Cervantes holds a service to give thanks for the money and the baby. Gertrudis arrives, says he owes her money and is planning to sell the baby. Nobody believes her.

6 years pass. Juan lives with the seminarians and is also cared for by Mirna. Francisca is teaching dance classes. Justino, Gertrudis’ lawyer, tells her of another business opportunity and decides to join the dance class as part of a plan, I think. Francisca says no. In spite of the padre’s objections that they don’t have enough money to put on the pastorala, Cecilio and the other seminarians proceed with rehearsals with the children. Cecilio makes an invention to clean clothes that results in destroying them. Gertrudis has a plan: adopt Juan de Luz to hurt padre Cervantes. For that she needs a husband and proposes to Justino. He asks for time to consider it. Then he tries again to approach Francisca but is again rejected. Florencio, for some reason, doesn’t want his children participating. Justino accepts the proposition of Gertrudis on the condition that the marriage will be annulled after Juan is adopted. Gertrudis also makes a proposition: that he address her by “tu”. Mirna tells padre Cervantes that Gertrudis is up to something. Cecilio’s paint invention ends up covering everybody in paint and when he sees that some chemicals or something clean it up, he realizes that nobody will believe him. Justino and Gertrudis are married; he is surprised to discover it is por bienes separados. Juan de Luz becomes sick but the doctor says it is nothing and he seems to recover quickly. Francisca tells her dance class that padre Cervantes needs money and all chip in. The padre relents and decides to let them have the pastorela. Gertrudis y Justino present padre Cervantes with the adoption papers for Juan de Luz.

USA, 10/1-5/01. Francisca and others decide to talk with Justino to find out how Gertrudis got custody of Juan de Luz. Justino insists he had nothing to do with the adoption, just handles business matters for Gertrudis, doesn’t mention that he has married her. Francisca doesn’t know whether to believe him. The boy escapes and goes back to the seminary. Gertrudis calls the police and accuses Padre Cervantes of kidnapping the boy. Padre Cervantes tells Juan to try to win the love of Gertrudis. Abel visits Gertrudis and begs her to let the boy visit padre Cervantes. Juan has a nose bleed but nobody notices until the next day because of a party at which José hits Justino for attending. Hermano Cecilio invents something like a walkie talkie and the children show it to their father Florencio. Don Jesús takes flowers to Gertrudis and asks her to make peace with Padre Cervantes, but she refuses. Gertrudis receives a letter from her mother, sent after her death, with a statute of the Virgin. Her mother asks her forgiveness for opposing her marriage to an older man. Gertrudis tells Cruz to destroy the statute. Gertrudis calls Justino and asks why she hasn’t seen him in several days. Karina and Juan de Luz give clothes away. Cruz is furious when he discovers what she did. Cruz can’t burn the statue; Juan de Luz finds it and puts it in his room. Gertrudis calls Justino to find out where he has been; she leaves a message on his answering machine while he reads a book. Don Jesús visits Gertrudis and begs her to let Juan de Luz attend the Christmas party. He thinks he has her agreement and tells the pueblo. José apologizes to Francisca for his behavior, gives her a ring and asks her to marry him. Justino watches them from afar, is happy when she rejects the ring, sad when they kiss. José asks her to keep the ring as a Christmas present. Francisca tells her sister she doesn’t love José, admits that she is attracted to Justino. Justino visits Gertrudis, reminds her that their marriage is a secret. She tells him about the letter she received from her mother. He becomes loving when she wonders to whom her mother would have left her entire fortune. Gertrudis offers to return Rayito to the seminary in exchange for the land. One of the seminarians prevents Padre Cervantes from signing the contract without further investigation. Hortensia tells Francisca that Justino interests her because he dances well, whereas José is clumsy. But she says a good dancer isn’t necessarily a good lover and tells her that appearances can be deceptive. Gertrudis and Justino offer to return Juan de Luz to Padre Cervantes if he signs papers turning over the seminario’s land to her. He is about to sign when Abel stops him, says there is no guarantee the officials will agree, that they should wait and study the document. Padre Cervantes tells Gertrudis he will think it over. Oscar gets on a bus to go to San Antonio to find his father Antonio (he learned he was there from a dream he had). Gertrudis has Justino investigate Abel. Justino visits a night club and talks to a singer who know Abel before he entered the seminary. In spite of requests from just about everybody in the pueblo, Gertrudis refuses to let Juan de Luz perform. However, she arranges a special Christmas eve dinner with Justino and while she is with him, Mirna and Cruz take Juan de Luz to the church. During the performance, he faints.

USA, 10/8-12/01. GRAN FINAL 10/19. Rayito recovers. Dr. Domingo is called (not in the pueblo); it worries him. Oscar’s mother worries about him. Catalina, his old novia, arrives in the pueblo and talks to Abel, refuses to tell him how she located him. She tells him she has just gotten a divorce, needs the help of a friend. Gertrudis kissees Justino. He rejects her, says he agreed only to be her friend. Gertrudis kicks him out. Justino visits Francisca, tells her that Oscar will be found. She asks him to leave and he kisses her goodbye. Justino insists he will work for Gertrudis for only a short time more, that he never acted in bad faith. Gertrudis opens the gift that Justino left for her and is touched. Padre Cervantes asks Abel about Catalina, hopes she really is in his past. Carmenita, hermana de Oscar, who heard Justino and Francisca, tells her she doesn’t like Justino. Oscar is found. Justino tells Francisca’s friends that he wants to be friends. José still doesn’t like or trust him. Florentino’s children bring an ownerless dog to the house and he agrees to let them keep it, to the surprise of his wife. Jesús invites Gertrudis to a festival as the guest of honor but she rejects the invitation. She continues to refuse to let the doctor examine Rayito, insists that she will take him to the finest hospital. Florencio agrees to use the computer in his office to put Oscar’s picture on the internet to find his father. Gertrudis arrives at the scene of another disaster caused by Cecilio and a new invention. When she helps to free him, she finds the statute of the Virgin that she had ordered Cruz to burn. Rayito says that he stole the statute. Gertrudis takes it, and him, back to her house. Cecilio and Padre Cervantes are arrested for theft. Justino convinces Gertrudis to withdraw the charges. Catalina tries to give money to the church but Padre Cervantes refusees, tells Abel it is not wise to accept donations from people outside their juriscition. Florencio’s dog, Pelusa, gets sick and must go to the vet but recovers. Jesús advises Francisca that there are different kinds of love, like different kinds of flowers, that José Niño’s love for her is pure. José Niño sees Justino and Francisca kissing. Gertrudis doesn’t attend the fiesta and finds Rayito in her room talking to the Virgin. When he tells her he is cold and hurts, she gives him an alcohol massage and notices the bruises on his arms and legs. Later, she listens to the Padre’s sermon and is moved, decides to go to the fiesta where she finds Justino dancing with Francisca. She drags him away. Jesús welcomes Gertrudis to the fiesta. Padre Cervantes warns Abel about Catalina, says he is praying to help him with the decision he must make by midnight. Hortensia tells Francisca that the argument between Gertrudis and Justino looked like a lover’s quarrel. After the fiesta, Gertrudis sees Justino walking with Francisca. She reminds Padre Cervantes he has only to midnight to make the decision. He tells her he prays that she will see the light. Cecilio and the children sneak into the house to wish Rayito a Happy New Year. Rayito comforts the crying Gertrudis after she returns and falls asleep next to her. Catalina calls Justino and arranges a meeting in which she demands to know what is going on. He tells her at least part of the story. She agrees to help provided Abel never knows that Justino is responsible for her being in the pueblo. She is determined to win him back. . The children and Cecilio drug Gertrudis with some kind of concoction and handcuff her. Rayito escapes again to the festival. Rayito returns and tries to unlock the cuffs. When he stands in front of the statute of the Virgin, a light shines behind him. Gertrudis has him move, the light leaves, return in front of the statute, the light shines again. She is deeply affected.

USA, 10/15-19/01. Padre Cervantes signs the contract. Gertrudis visits the church, tears up the contract, tells the padre about the miracle light. Abel finds Rayito bleeding on the floor and takes him to the hospital. A crowd gathers at the church, assumes that Gertrudis hurt Rayito; when she appears, somebody throws a stone at her. Meanwhile, brother Huerta is having fantasies about Catalina. Catalina calls Justino and tells him what happened. Dr. Domingo gets the results: leucemia. Hortensia admits to Francisca that she is interested in José Niño. Justino takes pastry to Francisca. Gertrudis invites Mirna to go to the hospital with her. Later she tells Justino she tore up the contract and will return Rayito to the church. Justino begs her to change her mind, promises that things will be different. She sends him away. Catalina comforts Abel, later tells Justino that he can turn Gertrudis back into her old self. Padre Cervantes holds a special service for Rayito. Gertrudis returns the statute of the Virgin. All pray in front of it, together and separately at different times. Francisca accuses José Niño of playing with her sister’s feelings. Florencio shows Hortensia the letters he’s received in his search for Oscar’s father, but she doesn’t want her son to see them, doesn’t want to raise false hopes. Justino takes roses to Gertrudis. Francisca thinks of José Niño, of his declaration of love. Oscar prays to the Virgin for Rayito, and puts a picture of his father next to her. That night, his father gets off a bus in the pueblo. Justino drives Francisca home and frightens her by the way he kisses her. She finds Hortensia with José Niño and the children and makes some comments. Rayito overhears the doctor tell Abel that he is dying. Hortensia won’t forgive Antonio. Florencio offers to find him work. At the market, Hortensia admits to Francisca that she and José Niño fabricated a relationship to make her jealous, which it obviously did. Gertrudis tells Justino she wants the adoption stopped and a divorce; he tries again to change her mind but can’t. She gives him money. José Niño visits Francisca, says he will give her up and leave the pueblo....then they reconcile and she admits that she loves him. Carmelito invites Justino in at just that moment. Oscar asks his sister to forgive Antonio. Rayito tells Gertrudis he wants to live at the seminary with her, knows he is dying. Abel is shocked by the doctor’s news, Catalina comforts him, tells him she will give him children. He tells her he doesn’t love her. Abel tells Padre Cervantes he must leave the seminary. He feels guilty at not recognizing the early symptoms of Rayito’s illness. Francisca and Jose Niña announce their wedding. Gertrudis gives something to Mirna which makes her very happy, tells Cruz, separately, to marry her (her mother told her they weren’t married). On returning to her office, Gertrudis spies Justino trying to open her safe. She starts humming, walks into the office, they talk, she offers him more money. Then she visits hermano Cecilio and asks for an invention. Padre Cervantes tells Catalina she isn’t welcome. Rayito dreams that his mother is in the church. Padre Cervantes and one of the brothers goes there and finds a woman who says she left her baby in the church 7 years before while fleeing from the police, was jailed injustly for 7 years. Justino tries to open the safe that night, after hitting Gertrudis on the head, and Cecilio’s burglar alarm goes off ( a magnetic device). Justino is arrested. The padre confirms Lucia’s story: she was unjustly jailed for 7 years but he is most convinced when she tells him that she left a note with her baby’s name Juan de Luz. He tells her that her son is dying and takes her to see him.

USA, ULTIMO CAPÍTULO. Hortensia agrees to be friends with Antonio but tells him to live elsewhere. He gives her all the money he saved while working in the U.S. She invites him to dinner and his daughter thanks him for the dress and doll and embraces him. Cruz tells Mirna why they can’t marry. She is devastated. Padre Cervantes tells her to forgive Cruz, the marriage was forced, the result of a youthful error and even though they can’t find the girl there are ways to annul the marriage. Gertrudis visits Justino in jail, will help him only if he agrees to a divorce. Rayito can’t feel his legs. The doctor asks Lucia about her past to try and find a cause for the leucemia; it seems she once worked with radioactive materials. 2 clowns and all his friends go to Rayito’s room and dance.Rayito lapses into unconsciousness. All pray for him. Abel gives the padre what he needs to provide the last rights. Gertrudis tells Cecilio and Huerto that she hired Catalina to take Abel away from the seminary so Padre Cervantes would sign the contract and that she asked Justino for money. Catalina says she did it for love, draws a knife on them. The children sneak into Rayito’s room with the statute of the virgin. Abel tells Fidel he is going to stay. Huerta knocks out Catalina. Abel arrives and learns the truth but then tells her he had already decided to remain a priest. The bells ring calling everybody to the church. The doctor gives Rayito oxygen, leaves the room. A light shines on Rayito’s bed. Rayito recovers and runs out of the church into Abel’s arms. All the people clap and cheer. Time passes and a bus with RAYITO DE LUZ on the outside pulls into town; the hermanos exit with presents. FIN.