<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=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">Grace<br class=""><br class="">Thanks and blessing be<br class="">to the Sun and the Earth<br class="">for this bread and this wine,</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" color="#ffff99" class="">----</font></font><br class=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">this fruit, this meat, this salt,</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" color="#ffff99" class=""> </font></font><br class=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> this food;<br class="">thanks be </font></font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">and</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> blessing to them<br class="">who prepare it, who serve it;<br class="">thanks </font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">and</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> blessing to them<br class="">who share it<br class=""> (</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">and</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> also the absent </font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">and</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> the dead.)<br class="">Thanks </font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">and</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> blessing to them who bring it<br class=""> (may they not want),<br class="">to them who plant </font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">and</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> tend it,<br class="">harvest </font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">and</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> gather it<br class=""> (may they not want);<br class="">thanks </font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">and</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> blessing to them who work<br class=""></font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> and</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> blessing to them who cannot;<br class="">may they not want — for their hunger<br class=""> sours the wine<br class=""></font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> and</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> robs the salt of its taste.<br class="">Thanks be for the sustenance </font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">and</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> strength<br class="">for our dance </font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">and</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> the work of justice, of peace.</font><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> - Rafael Jesús González</font><div class=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":"mso-ansi-language:
ES-TRAD;","lang":"ES-TRAD"}" class=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class="">Gracias</font><br class=""></font></div><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""><br class="">Gracias y benditos sean<br class="">el Sol y la Tierra<br class="">por este pan y este vino,<br class=""> esta fruta, esta carne, esta sal,<br class=""> 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=""> (que no les falte),<br class="">a quienes lo siembran y cultivan,<br class="">lo cosechan y lo recogen<br class=""> (que no les falte);<br class="">gracias y bendiciones a los que trabajan<br class=""> y bendiciones a los que no puedan;<br class="">que no les falte — su hambre<br class=""> hace agrio el vino<br class=""> 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=""> por la justicia y la paz.</font><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-</font><font data-keep-original-tag="false" data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" class=""> Rafael Jesús González</font></font></div></div></body></html>