Sometimes I feel
like Mr. Pepys the witness of extraordinary events from a fortuitous vantage point.
He climbed pillars or scaffolds to witness the return of the monarch. Tonight
at the back of the room on the kiva-like benches of Southside Presbyterian
Church in Tucson, I witnessed (and participated in) the communal celebration of
the
Final Sanctuary
Prayer Vigil for Rosa
November 10, 2015
Opening/Canción
de Apertura
Pescador
de Hombres, No. 721
Gathering Words
of Welcome/
Palabras de
Bienvenida
Psalm 96/Salmo 96
Sharing Words of
Gratitude/
Compartiendo
Palabras de Agradecimiento
Philippians 4:
4-9/Filipenses 4:4-9
Sharing Words of
Blessing/
Compartiendo
Palabras de Benedición
Laying on of
Hands/Imposición de Manos
Song of
Praise We Will Go Out
With Joy, No. 539
Spanish
Verse:
Vamos
saliendo con gozo en el alma;
vamos
saliendo ya
Vamos
saliendo con gozo en el alma,
vamos
saliendo ya
Aleluya,
vamos saliendo ya.
Aleyua!
Aleyua!
Spreading the
Light/Compartiendo la Luz
Amen! Amen! Amen!
It was powerful. It was unexpected. In the course of things
Alison Harrington the pastor welcomed us – and told us that tomorrow at eleven
o’clock we were all welcome back for the public announcement and celebration of
the end of Rosa’s confinement to sanctuary. “She is protected!” she cried. And
may all those like her, undocumented, be likewise so.
Margo Cowan the lawyer was there and received due
congratulations. Isabel Garcia from Derechos Humanos, Ilaa Abernathy from St.
Michael’s Guatemala Project, … many familiar and new faces joined in joy in
this celebration. “The movement is spreading.”
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