The 'bolillo'
Dardess, George
T LAST WORD THE ;BBLILLB' George...
...But there were needed for weed pulling in wet and in one another...
...Suddenly inspired, I based on a brief encounter a few days eucharistic meal was offered in the field poked under our kitchen sink until I earlier...
...No, I couldn't help pay...
...became conscious of how out of place I trouble with the owner of the field...
...What would happen to these vulgloves...
...We had spent the morning found what I was looking for...
...In But wouldn't they be lacking a glove...
...the field's edge...
...I simgrass were the yellow rubber ones...
...The answer seemed to satisfy him...
...concentrate on the semillas del Reino de ure to provide drinking water, I got lightThere was a discussion about guantes, Dios (the seeds of the Reign of God, men- headed...
...Wasn't there something to suspicion and resentment...
...A social disaster In the early afternoon, the clouds broke wooded areas surrounding the field...
...can friend...
...They cut out my bolillo heart and replace it with The fact that Tirso and Lazaro, eco- were more than symbols of generosity a Mexican heart...
...but it was enough...
...Tirso work with the men, since I needed to ply quit early, before the end of the men's spoke briefly to Lazaro, then one handed share in their lives if I was going to share twelve-hour day...
...D begin with Sunday Mass followed by a represented until later...
...Wayne soda...
...All they and stand as true equals...
...seeds you planted for me," I told them...
...They anticipated the sharing of the Mexican...
...Mist was rising from the and cultural disparities...
...Jorge,' Don Jose joked, nomic refugees from Mexico, had in- and attentiveness...
...T LAST WORD THE ;BBLILLB' George Dardess ix A.M...
...dignities as indocumentados (people with- It was their treat...
...Here eucharistic meal...
...The mini-mision would I didn't understand the sacrifice this for the whole church...
...We set off to where they'd left off affirm one another's reality in Christ...
...The friend had pretended to weeding the previous day...
...I'd brought some canvas ones, tioned in Matthew 13...
...The was in the making...
...but in the afternoon you had usual openness and attentiveness...
...Unaccustomed to the sky was overcast-thankfully, for the tion and said that the mini-mision would heat, the stoop labor, and the farmer's failweather had been hot and humid...
...The men smiled...
...When I quirement for the diaconate in the Dio- weeding, moving up and down the addressed the mini-mision, I told the cese of Rochester, I had been touring rows, gabbing and singing...
...It was not a great speech, the equipo, summed up the situation...
...We were looking for an point of his question, but said, yes, and box...
...I wasn't clear about the pair of yellow gloves and held up a pizza Lucila Romero...
...Don Jose, a member of me his left glove, the other his right one...
...of a July morning in Padre and Sister explained this to the three dollars apiece-represented half a an onion field in Wayne men as we sat in their trailer, sipping day's wage in Mexico...
...Toward equipo how they had taught me about farmworker encampments with my noon, Felix asked me if pizza was an the semillas del Reino...
...Sometimes in my leading a mini-mision among them...
...As part of a "field study" re- at midday...
...I prayed for inspira- and the sun blazed...
...What courage the seeds' growth in ourselves should drop dead among them...
...What the lunch break-an hour by the time County adjoins Lake On- did I have to say for myself...
...seeds you planted for yourselves and out papers...
...The men ate the procession, and would culminate a week pizza to provide me with food I'd be George Dardess lives and teaches in later with Mass at the encampment...
...the money-two or Rochester, New York...
...Then all eyes turned to me...
...Commonweal 47 September 8, 2000...
...They were sacramen- "in the morning you had the heart of a cluded me, the gringo, indicated an un- tal...
...We would en- nerable people, I wondered, if this bolillo but they were the wrong type...
...Doesn't matter," said that our differences were transformed, top of the Aztec Pyramid of the Sun at one...
...illegally, how could they not view me, in the mini-mision, we were asking that When I began pondering how to open the bolillo (their preferred term...
...in their prayers...
...But first I wanted to was to be no melodramatic collapse...
...They knew exactequipo (group) that might be interested that I'd even heard Italians seldom ate ly what I was talking about...
...The rubber gloves, for example...
...Then I pulled out a mentors, Padre Jesus Flores and Sister American food...
...bolillo is each detail of our lives be changed into the mini-mision, I thought of my day in a type of very white Mexican bread) with signs of the kingdom where we could the fields...
...By becoming partners the heart of a bolillo again...
...The it is the humblest objects, and the most I would do Bible study, teach some Eng- men quickly pooled their money and unlikely situations, that make us aware lish, and encourage the men, most of asked me to accompany Cornelio to buy of the love that surrounds us...
...help me illustrate the theme of "the seeds the other field workers knew of me was A more concrete approximation of the of the kingdom...
...They are them far from home and facing daily in- pizza for lunch...
...it...
...He's left-handed, I'm right-hand- that they motivated us in concrete ways to Teotihuacan with my wife and a Mexied...
...Instantly, I we'd finished the last slice-got them in tario, between Syracuse and Rochester...
...After that day I felt the morning I had told about a hike to the They grinned...
...comfortable with...
...Yet The six of us had just parked our cars at was, my imperfect Spanish, the physical none of them resented the sacrifice...
...and the length of S County, New York...
Vol. 127 • September 2000 • No. 15
