Father Cayetano Cabrera, Pastor of Cristo Rey Parish in Nogales, Mexico, and conference participant, brought his choir, presided and preached at the closing bilingual Mass. During his homily, he said that if you get to know the immigrant, you will discover what they bring in their packs--gifts of hopes and dreams and faith and perseverance. If you get even closer, you will discover how deportation threatens to destroy those gifts. But in the end, it is God who helps them rediscover hope again through the likes of those who accompany them near and far.
At the closing of the liturgy, each was given a cross with the name of someone who had perished in the desert this past year. She brought us the name of the 28th person whom they found in 2012--Rony Villatoro.
Requiescat en pace.
May your life be a sword that pierces our hearts and causes us to say,
"Basta! No more deaths! We will build bridges, not walls."
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