My name is Father Paul Ring and I’m the pastor at Sacred Heart Church of St. James, the church you see down the street here, and I often see the folks from Seven Hills go by my door, and it’s such a great and a heartening sight to see such obvious loving care being given to these folks. And that needs to continue. Places like this need to continue. And the residents who are here need to stay here. It is their best and truly their only hope. And we must in our own way, to our own God, and in our own tradition, take a moment now and ask our Creator to bless these children, to continue to bless these children, and to touch the minds and the hearts of those in authority to see the injustice at work. We need minds and hearts to be transformed, to see these residents for who they are, not merely just names on a page or numbers on a roll, but viable human beings who have a right to exist as fully as they possibly can in this community not only here at Seven Hills but in Groton and in the Commonwealth. No, they cannot vote, but their lives are a statement, they need to be a statement, and we need to make that statement here and now on this day. So in our own way let’s take a moment of silence right now and ask our Creator to bless this day, to touch the hearts of those who see these residents, to touch their minds and hearts to act. [moment of silence] Loving Creator, we thank you for the gift of this day, we thank you for the opportunity to speak for those who so often go voiceless. May we draw strength from the numbers that we have here today. May these numbers then ripple out into our community of Groton, into the Nashoba Valley, and through the Commonwealth, so that this statement that we make today may reach the doors of the State House, the doors of the Governor, so that if he indeed is a champion of civil rights as he claims to be, that he sees the violation of rights being undertaken by our Commonwealth, that he take action to change this injustice. We pray this as we pray all things, in your name. Amen.