The Young Adults which the keeper accompanies are in charge of the telling of the Passion of Christ every Good Friday. They practice for months. They carefully select the characters, especially Jesus and Mary and John. Every year the costumes are better. A young man name Josue makes most of them. They memorize all the lines. Last year a theater director helped them with their staging. It's very dramatic, more Mel Gibson than what the keeper is used to.
But they tell the old story with such devotion and energy, it's hard not to be caught up in it.
And she knows that many in that community are bearing very heavy loads of pain and suffering. One woman will be deported to El Salvador next week with her baby and young son. They are not deporting her husband who has asylum. But her family who will receive her has received death threats and have had to move several weeks ago. No one could help her, not even the senators. So these young people are really telling the contemporary story of the community whose faith is unbreakable in the face of loss, rejection, injustice.
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