The Bread Line at St. Gregory's
Every Saturday morning at 6 a.m., Maria Gonzalez unlocks the side door of St. Gregory's Church in the Bronx and begins slicing bread. By seven,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 34:2-9.
Every Saturday morning at 6 a. m. , Maria Gonzalez unlocks the side door of St. Gregory's Church in the Bronx and begins slicing bread. By seven, the line stretches past the bodega on the corner. She has been doing this for eleven years — ever since the morning she showed up at that same door, hungry, newly sober, with nothing but bus fare in her pocket.…
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