- “How can we tell mom?” he asked, moments after the fact. “The sicarios [the hitmen for one side or the other of the cartels] have murdered her son, my brother.”
- “Tomorrow is my ‘day off’,” I said. “The Mass intention list is clear. I will offer Mass for him early Tuesday morning.”
- “Thank you, Father.”
“Father.” Yes. For me this is personal. The brother of a son of this parish family was murdered. How could I not take this very personally?
This was in the same place where another parishioner’s father was murdered just the other year, four shots to the back of the head.
This is every day at Mexico city 💔
How very sad. May he rest in peace and his family be comforted.