My name is Podrigotuma and for a long time in all my life really have had association

with the Church, the Catholic Church.

And it's a place of prayer of course, a place of sacrament, a place of liturgy and community.

But whenever I go into Catholic churches, I look around, I look at the stations at the

cross, I look at all kinds of things, but I also look at the Church notice board.

Somebody saying, do you need help with this?

Anybody want to come to this group?

Anybody want to join here?

Anybody wondering what to do in the middle of their week?

That the Church notice board is a way that the community is saying, look, while we're

in the midst of these huge questions about religion and God and meaning, also there's stuff

that we can offer for help here, things you can get and things you can give.

No time to wait by Jose Olivearez.

When healing in the pews, my parents prayed to the statue of Christ for protection.

We were new to Chicago, we were new to the United States alone you might think.

But it wasn't just Christ in that church, there was the Mexican family that housed us,

the Mexican family that connected us with immigration lawyers, the Mexican family that

got my dad a job, the Mexican family that invited us to birth their parties, the Mexican

family that showed us how to make calls back to Mexico.

There was the Mexican family gossiping behind our backs alone, my parents couldn't drink

a beer without someone's primo asking for a sip.

Nailing in that church, there was salvation everywhere.

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