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A Contemporary Immigration Lamentation

A Contemporary Immigration Lamentation

Listen to Sisters Kath Horan, Jacqueline Sanchez-Small, Val Luckey, Pat Lupo (behind candles), Rosanne Lindal-Hynes, Pat Witulski, Veronica Mirage (seated), Dianne Sabol (in ray of sunlight) offer a contemporary lamentation scripted and directed by Sister Margaret Ann Pilewski. Sister Peggy blends lines from the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus that appear on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and lines from Scripture in this interpretive reading that breaks open the suffering of the immigrant and our call as Christians and as U.S. citizens to respond to this suffering. Listen here.