No f bombs this time, no beating buckets with drum sticks. Nope, we hit 'em with the word of the Lord!

I showed up and was handed a lyric sheet of hymns and a pamphlet detailing the Stations of the Cross in English and Spanish, together with examples of how the immigrants' unwarranted suffering mirrors that of Christ: innocent people tortured and murdered by the state.

It was run by two local Episcopal churches, and who should I see but the deacon from my own Episcopal cathedral!

He was carrying a large wooden cross in both hands, and two priests and some lay readers read out of the pamphlet, alternating English and Spanish for each station as we walked all around that accursed place.

I wrote to him about ICE watch and the ICE facility protests a few months ago and was delighted to see him join us. He'd wanted to but wasn't sure what to do, like many people. Yay! He came out!

At the very beginning we saw some people in these translucent windows-- they can hear and sort of see us, outlines at least, in some of the cells. We always wave to them and they wave back, and we yell "No estan solos!" as loudly as we can.

We then walked all around with the cross, and after each station of the cross we were singing hymns. When we got to the station where Jesus dies on the Cross, a lay reader read out the names of everyone who's been murdered by #ICE this year.

That was followed by the classic Christian hymn "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?" And "We Shall Overcome" followed after that.

Moments like these always have me wondering how TF these people can carry on with this brutality while being loudly compared by priests to the people who murdered Jesus. Like, endeavor to live your life so that a large, diverse crowd of people *doesn't* have reason to sing those hymns outside your workplace.

Of course, everybody inside still wants us to be out there, so we keep coming back. It's also a hell of a motivator that we know we are putting pressure on these monsters.

I had to miss the last few protests at the ICE lockup because I was doing more hyperlocal work getting our community prepared in case of Minneapolis-style invasion. Those meetings conflicted, so it felt good to be back and see all the other "usual suspects" who sing and yell at the protests.

At the end, I went up to thank our deacon in person for coming out to the protest. He was also talking about what he and various other Episcopalians will be doing for No Kings this Saturday. I of course will be with my fellow bridge trolls, but a bunch of people from my cathedral and other churches are going to be protesting together wearing red for the Holy Spirit.

I really think we have a role to play as Christians in speaking out about what the Christofascist idolaters are doing.

I mean, we aren't there to try to force our religion on anybody. It's just that a lot of the detainees are Christian and being denied pastoral care (which is illegal anyway) by people who claim to be Christian. We sang Christmas carols for them at the top of our lungs on Christmas Eve, and we had prayers and Bible verses for them today.

The other factor is the ICE agents have to hear this. Now *there's* a case where I'm gonna come out and say "Repent to save your soul," the whole nine yards.