<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 23.399999618530273px;" class=""><span style="font-size: large;" class="">Grace<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thanks and blessing be<br class="">to the Sun and the Earth<br class="">for this bread and this wine,</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153); font-size: large;" class="">----</span></span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 23.399999618530273px;" class=""><span style="font-size: large;" class="">this fruit, this meat, this salt,</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153); font-size: large;" class=""> </span></span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 23.399999618530273px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153); font-size: large;" class="">---------------</span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">this food;<br class="">thanks be </span></span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: large;" class=""> blessing to them<br class="">who prepare it, who serve it;<br class="">thanks </span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: large;" class=""> blessing to them<br class="">who share it<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">-----</span>(</span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: large;" class=""> also the absent </span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: large;" class=""> the dead.)<br class="">Thanks </span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: large;" class=""> blessing to them who bring it<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">--------</span>(may they not want),<br class="">to them who plant </span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: large;" class=""> tend it,<br class="">harvest </span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: large;" class=""> gather it<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">--------</span>(may they not want);<br class="">thanks </span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: large;" class=""> blessing to them who work<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">--------</span></span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: large;" class=""> blessing to them who cannot;<br class="">may they not want — for their hunger<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">------</span>sours the wine<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">----------</span></span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: large;" class=""> robs the salt of its taste.<br class="">Thanks be for the sustenance </span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: large;" class=""> strength<br class="">for our dance </span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: large;" class=""> the work of justice, of peace.<br class=""><br class=""></span><font class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Rafael Jesús González</font><span style="font-size: large;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">-</span></span><div class=""><span style="font-size: large;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: large;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: large;" class="">Gracias</span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: large;" class="">Gracias y benditos sean<br class="">el Sol y la Tierra<br class="">por este pan y este vino,<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">-----</span>esta fruta, esta carne, esta sal,<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">----------------</span>este alimento;<br class="">gracias y bendiciones<br class="">a quienes lo preparan, lo sirven;<br class="">gracias y bendiciones<br class="">a quienes lo comparten<br class="">(y también a los ausentes y a los difuntos.)<br class="">Gracias y bendiciones a quienes lo traen<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">--------</span>(que no les falte),<br class="">a quienes lo siembran y cultivan,<br class="">lo cosechan y lo recogen<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">-------</span>(que no les falte);<br class="">gracias y bendiciones a los que trabajan<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">-------</span>y bendiciones a los que no puedan;<br class="">que no les falte — su hambre<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">-----</span>hace agrio el vino<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">-----------</span>y le roba el gusto a la sal.<br class="">Gracias por el sustento y la fuerza<br class="">para nuestro bailar y nuestra labor<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class="">--------</span>por la justicia y la paz.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Rafael Jesús González <span style="font-size: 23.399999618530273px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div></div></body></html>