“The event of the First Passover is recalled and represented as it is actually being re-experienced in Panama. (“Homies in Search of the Holy Grail,” Box HIST/H3300/288, Folder 1, John Enright Papers.)Īn Excerpt from an Explanation of “The New Passover”: It was harvest time, so all were off into the backhills where they had sown their rice and beans well out of sight of any landowner. Gleaning their mannah even on Christmas was the most important chore at hand. Personal disappointment dissolved in the face of human reality and on a lonely stroll through the fvalley that day ‘no room in the inn’ for Mary and Joseph took on new meaning…” San Isidro was a squatter community, populated by campesino families. Finally San Isidro, my future home, no shows as Luis practically pounded his triangle into a circle. There was biter disappointment, until I learned the reason why on a daylight return on Christmas day. Monte Oscuro had a congregation of 10 kids 6 adults, no communions Pan de Azucar, a bit better with a few more kids and adults with three communions. Along with the mass kit he had an iron triangle to ring at each site to announce our arrival. On December 24th at 9:30 p.m., Luis packed his van for the Christmas circuit. Andrews parish, where the Christmas schedule ran to 15 overcrowded masses with thousands of communions following a week of 8 hours daily in the confessional. The expectations dating back to a first assignment at St. Monte Oscuro, Pan de Azucar and the Valley of San Isidro were scheduled on the hour into midnight. I was told that the latter locale was to be my area of work. “No White Christmas here, I arrived on the mission scene 2 days before Christmas. And was introduced to Don Luis who was to be my chauffer for the holiday mass circuit.
Here is how he remembered that first holiday in later life: Enright arrived in San Miguelito just before Christmas, 1964.
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