(5 May 2025)
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Simojovel, Mexico – 26 April 2025
1. Deacon Juan Pérez Gómez climbing a hill to a small church ++ MUTE ++
2. Various of deacon Juan Pérez Gómez climbing a hill to a small church
3. Pérez Gómez entering church
4. Various of deacon picking up consecrated communion wafers
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Simojovel, Mexico – 26 April 2025
5. Deacon Pérez Gómez celebrating Sunday service in Tsotsil
6. Various of woman singing in Tsotsil, reading from pamphlet
7. Various of Pérez Gómez celebrating service
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Simojovel, Mexico – 26 April 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Pérez Gómez, deacon:
"When he (Pope Francis) came, he asked forgiveness to all the faithful on behalf of the Church, because he also knew about us, the humiliation, the marginalization, the exploitation that was inflicted on us by the first ones who entered in Mexico over 500 years ago."
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ARCHIVE: San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico – 15 February 2016
9. Various of Pope Francis during Mass
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Simojovel, Mexico – 26 April 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Pérez Gómez, deacon:
"I think he was well aware of the situation that Indigenous peoples are experiencing here in Chiapas, in Mexico, and in Latin America."
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ARCHIVE: San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico – 15 February 2016
11. Various of Pope Francis during Mass
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Simojovel, Mexico – 26 April 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Pérez Gómez, deacon:
"He spoke a lot about Mother Earth, that Mother Earth is our common home. It is for all of us, not just for one or two or three people, like capitalism wants."
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Simojovel, Mexico – 26 April 2025
13. Various of deacon working his plot of land
14. Various of deacon walking with his wife
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Pérez Gómez, deacon:
"Jtatik (Father) Samuel understood very well what it was to live, what it was to be Indigenous, what it was to be poor, because we are native people, we are Indigenous people. So I believe that’s why Jtatik Samuel also understood very well and that’s why he always talked a lot about Liberation Theology, When Pope Francis came, I think their work coincided."
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ARCHIVE: La Realidad, Mexico – 28 June 1995
++ 4:6 ++
16. Various of people welcoming Bishop Samuel Ruiz
17. Ruiz talking to people UPSOUND (Spanish): "When we arrive here we found the news that three priests were unlawfully detained."
18. Various of Indigenous women
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Simojovel, Mexico – 26 April 2025
19. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Pérez Gómez, deacon:
"We are no longer like an object, we are now considered people; people when we walk, people when we talk, people in our struggle, when we defend the Mother Earth, when we defend the land."
20. Various of women participating in a Mayan ritual to purify the consecrated communion wafers
20. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Pérez Gómez, deacon:
"Hopefully God and the Holy Spirit will send (a new Pope) who has a heart and protects the life of (Indigenous) communities."
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Simojovel, Mexico – 27 April 2025
21. Deacon Pérez Gómez during Sunday service
UPSOUND (Tsotsil) Juan Pérez Gómez, deacon:
"Thank you Father, thank you Christ, we ask you to choose us a new Pope, elect us a new servant, may he have the same principles, do the same work as Pope Francis, who has already left this world, did."
22. Various of Pérez Gómez during service
STORYLINE:
Catholic and Mayan symbolism mingled at a simple altar where he officiated service in Tsotsil.
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