Mercy & Justice: Summer Book Read

The St. Ignatius Parish ARC (Anti Racism Committee) and the Joint (St. Ignatius and St. Agnes) Solidarity Network invite all parishioners to participate in a Summer Book Read of Javier Zamora’s Solito. 

• We will discuss the first half of the book after hospitality on July 14;

• and the second half of the book after hospitality on August 4. 

(For those who prefer remote discussions, we will have Zoom discussions for the first half of the book on July 18, and for the second half of the book on August 8). The reading project is a ramp up to a larger retreat on immigration the two ministries are sponsoring, starting in September and running through the fall. Copies of Javier Zamora’s memoir are available in the In All Things Bookstore, as well in local bookstores, the Public Library and online.

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Javier Zamora took a three-thousand-mile journey when he was just nine years old from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the US border. His memoir provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.