(5 May 2025)
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Simojovel, Mexico – 26 April 2025
1. Deacon Juan Pérez Gómez climbing a hill to a small church
2. Various of deacon Juan Pérez Gómez climbing a hill to a small church
3. Pérez Gómez entering church
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Pérez Gómez, deacon:
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"My name is Juan Pérez Gómez. I am a permanent deacon of the Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas. I can participate in the sacraments of baptism, first communion and also marriage. But there are things we cannot do, we cannot consecrate."
5. Various of deacon picking up consecrated communion wafers
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Simojovel, Mexico – 27 April 2025
6. Various of woman singing in Tsotsil, reading from pamphlet
7. Deacon Pérez Gómez celebrating Sunday service in Tsotsil
UPSOUND (Tsotsil) Juan Pérez Gómez, deacon:
"We ask God that the work Pope Francis did for us, in the time he lived, is not in vain. He spoke a lot on behalf of Indigenous peoples."
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ARCHIVE: San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico – 15 February 2016
8. Various of Pope Francis during Mass
9. Various of Pope greeting from popemobile
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Simojovel, Mexico – 26 April 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Pérez Gómez, deacon:
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"When he (Pope Francis) came, he asked forgiveness from all the faithful on behalf of the Church, because he also knew about us, and of the humiliation, marginalization, and the exploitation that were inflicted on us by those who first arrived in Mexico over 500 years ago."
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Simojovel, Mexico – 26 April 2025
11. Various of deacon working his plot of land
12. Various of deacon walking with his wife
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Pérez Gómez, deacon:
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"There were many changes when he entered as Pontiff. 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."
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ARCHIVE: La Realidad, Mexico – 28 June 1995
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14. Various of people welcoming Bishop Samuel Ruiz
15. Ruiz talking to people
16. Various of Indigenous women
UPSOUND (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. When Pope Francis came, I think their work coincided."
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Simojovel, Mexico – 26 April 2025
17. Various of women participating in a Mayan ritual to purify the consecrated communion wafers
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Pérez Gómez, deacon:
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"We are no longer like an object, we are people. Women have rights. They have the right to participate. They have the right to speak. They have the right to progress."
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Simojovel, Mexico – 27 April 2025
19. Various of Indigenous women during communion at Sunday service
20. Various of 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."
STORYLINE:
On any given Saturday, deacon Juan Pérez Gómez climbs a hill to a small church in the remote Mayan community of Simojovel, situated in the mountainous state of Chiapas.
Since as a deacon he can’t consecrate, he must walk to this church a day before he performs service to pick up the consecrated wafers the local priest has left for him.
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