Hermano Juancito’s Sunday

Father Henry celebrated Mass this morning in the chapel of San Martín de Porres up the hill from my house in Santa Rosa. Padre Fausto had gone to Tegucigalpa to join the thousands protesting the coup.

Father Henry spoke very pointedly about the role of Christians as prophets. “Do you get mad because you hear denunciations of injustice?” he asked.

Vaguely referring to yesterday’s demonstration for peace and democracy in Santa Rosa’s central plaza, he asked “How can you ask for peace if you are full of hatred, of resentment?…How can you ask for peace if you do not go to church or if you don’t pay your employees a decent wage?”

Juancito notes some small acts of rebellion, like the Catholic Church station NOT broadcasting the endless repetition of the coup-leader’s pronunciamentos (which are getting a bit silly — claiming Nicaragua was invading, then saying, well… maybe… probably not… but they might think of it — and that President Zelaya’s plane was landing in El Salvador within an hour of leaving Washington — a four hour flight even in a fighter jet).

He’s had quite a day, and appreciates the e-mails he’s been receiving from those who are depending on a voice of sanity from Honduras.