Word: raying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stopped on the road that ran just outside Morochata. I put my knapsack on my back and was pointed toward the restaurant where I was to meet my contact. There, seated at a table in an interior patio where the sun shone strongly, sat Padre Ray Herman...
...Padre Ray was to travel to one of the tiny outlying communities around Morochata, where he was training a catechist to administer masses and perform marriages and baptisms. All of the campesinos in the area were ostensibly Catholics, having been converted by missionaries like Ray over the decades. But they still lived the traditional life of the Quechua Indians, and were thus often Catholics only in name, still believing in the ancient pagan gods. El padre wanted to see to it that they became good practicing Christians...
...while Ray was out in the campo, I would walk around the streets of the pueblo and try to talk with the villagers. In contrast to the peasants in the countryside, many of the inhabitants of the town proper were not Indians; if they had been, any communication would have been out of the question. Quite a few of the townspeople were cholos, mixed Indians and whites who were caught between the traditional life style of the Incas and the life of Western society to which they aspire. In their trips to Cochabamba and to other cities in the valley...
...found Padre Ray back in his chambers, poring over a Spanish Bible in preparation for the sermon he would give at mass the next day. After a few minutes there was a knock at the door, and a campesino walked in, hat in hand and shoulders bent over in what looked almost like a caricature of humility. "Padre, por favor, pudiera venir al cementerio, para rezar por nuestro companero?" So the priest, his face impassive, put on his black vestment, and we were off to the cemetery to say some prayers over the body of a campesino awaiting burial...
There is a ray of hope, however, as left winger Dave Gauthier will be returning to the squad tonight. Gauthier was the sixth leading scorer on the team as a sophomore last season with 22 points, on 13 goals and nine assists. "He couldn't have come back at a better time," Cleary said yesterday...