{"id":6829,"date":"2016-11-28T07:32:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T13:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/?p=6829"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:44:33","slug":"the-broken-body-of-christ-at-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2016\/11\/28\/the-broken-body-of-christ-at-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"The Broken Body of Christ at the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, I attended Mass at the border; I was part of a community of believers uniting around bread and wine miraculously made into flesh and blood.<\/p>\n

I was on the Mexican side, sitting on a concrete street curb next to another Catholic sister. Together we were a color pop in the assembly: we stuck out in our bright turquoise T-shirts declaring\u00a0\u201cCatholic Sisters for Compassionate Immigration Reform.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Nearby sat our friend, Br. David, a Franciscan Capuchin, bearing witness in his dusty brown habit. Guests to this area, this Mass we were attending coincided with the events of\u00a0the School of Americas Watch Border Convergence<\/a>\u00a0throughout the entire weekend.<\/p>\n

We were among a crowd of a couple hundred other folks. Some sat upon haphazard rows of folding chairs, others leaned against fences and buildings, many stood. We were gathered on a crumbling, uneven street formed from a mishmash of concrete, asphalt and sandy earth. In front of us was…<\/p>\n

[This is the beginning of an essay I wrote for <\/em>Sick Pilgrim<\/a>\u00a0at Patheos.\u00a0<\/em>Continue reading\u00a0here<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jos\u00e9 Antonio mural and the border wall. Photo by Julia Walsh FSPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, I attended Mass at the border; I was part of a community of believers uniting around bread and wine miraculously made into flesh and blood. I was on the Mexican side, sitting on a concrete street curb next to another Catholic sister. Together we were a color pop in the assembly: we stuck...","protected":false},"author":4071079,"featured_media":6832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2528],"tags":[10832,1094,354011,166727,817095,7104,2416,198878,43813,4363,118144397,7425,1451791,549560610,853,544272775,535859],"series":[698756626],"class_list":["post-6829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-blood","tag-body","tag-body-of-christ","tag-border-patrol","tag-border-wall","tag-catholic","tag-church","tag-communion","tag-eucharist","tag-immigration","tag-jose-antonio-elena-rodriguez","tag-mass","tag-nogales","tag-patheos-sick-pilgrim","tag-prayer","tag-soaw-border-convergence","tag-wounds","series-messy-jesus-business"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1008161219-scaled.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/messy-jesus-business","embedCode":"
The Broken Body of Christ at the Border<\/a><\/blockquote>