Church Hopping

 Yesterday I stopped in at a church about 10 miles from me. I have decided earlier this summer I am going to stop in different Catholic churches just to see them. It can be an eye opener.

What got me interested in doing this was at a protest I was at. I found a person who was willing to talk about the Catholic church's role in this administration. She told me she now goes to the Spanish service of her church because they are so much more inviting. I found that interesting. We have a large immigrant population in pockets around here doing jobs no local wants to do. Unfortunately ICE is trying to get into the area and solicit the local cops cooperation with bribery of more pay and this area, being as red as it is, probably is tempted. So these people who are here LEGALLY under work contracts are nervous.

So, I went to a church with a Spanish service just to visit. The gal in the office didn't seem to be too happy I was there inquiring about the Spanish service, but tough ****.  And that got me interested in this little project.

So anyway, I went to this church and read the prayer requests in the book they had out. I was surprised to see Ukraine mentioned several times! Happily so as I believe we had promised Ukraine to help them if needed and we have broken that promise since January, much to our own detriment. But, it made me realize people do care about things that the MAGA crowd says they don't. Is that real? Or is that just the bigmouths....like the bigmouths in church who are so loud and tiresome that no one else feels they should even bother with them?

Do I trust that church south of me? Not really. I know the moneyed people in that church and they are not trustworthy. And that is the problem with things. They have the voice and the rest of us get the notebook to write in. But good for them to write in it!! I added the immigrants to that book. I see the Latino man's face who came to our protest last Saturday, videoing us and shaking each of our hands, thanking us with tears. I see the small child in the cart saying hello to me, his dad not speaking english but the smiles on our faces spoke volumes.  Jesus was an immigrant and he's not returned to lead this country. No, he's that man with tears or that child saying hello or his dad with the wide smile.