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May 1, 2006

Rallyblog: Mass celebrated with mops and brooms

PROVIDENCE – About a dozen or so hotel workers and janitors walked their mops, their brooms, their bucket and their whisks up the aisle at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul today during a Mass for immigrant rights.

Then the priests blessed those items, the tools of the trade for employees from The Providence Westin hotel and janitors who clean offices in downtown.

The Mass, which drew perhaps 200 people, was the second of three organized events today that are part of a nationwide demonstration for immigrant rights.

Then Juan Garcia, head of the Immigrants in Action Committee at St. Teresa Church in Olneyville, read from the Prayers of the Faithful in Spanish as someone translated for him into English:

“For migrant workers, refugees and strangers in our midst, that they may find hope in our concern for justice and feel the warmth of our love, let us pray to the Lord,” Garcia read.

-- With reports from Journal staff writer Karen Lee Ziner

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