CA bishops celebrate Mass for detainees at ICE facility in Adelanto

With Communion bowls in hand, a group of California bishops walked through the barbed wire gates of the ICE Processing Center and offered Jesus to the men locked inside.

This moment of the Mass, held Dec. 10 outside the town of Adelanto in the Mojave Desert, was deeply emotional for both the bishops and the roughly 300 detainees present.

“To see their faces, to see how they were impacted, was very powerful for me,” said Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Brian Nunes. “So many times we think of migrants, refugees as a category. And a category is very impersonal, but seeing them one by one with faces, with voices, that are very memorable, is something that I’ll take with me.”

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(Photo Credit: California Catholic Conference)