PRAYER FOR OSCAR PÉREZ

He left sons, wife, relatives and friends and fought for one ideal: freedom.

He, as a helicopter pilot, fought to bring food and medicine to the helpless brothers to the remotest parts of his country.

He had clear blue eyes to see farther and this clarity was that of the light that came from his heart, the light of his soul, the light of his valiant fraternity.

He did not just fight with guns, and if he to face the tyranny that so oppresses the people to the point of forcing them not to use them so that the same people obey and enslave oneself to deprivation.

He used guns, yes, not to kill, but to show that everyone has the right to defense and know the time to resign, because in the end their struggle was peaceful and because in this struggle the warrior knows he is alone. He not only faced the murderous weapons but the sandice of those who only want power, blood, tyranny.

He, at last, let his words of peace and dialogue echo not only to the cry of humanity, to echo not only in the void of the insane consciousness of tyrants, but to echo in the silence of eternity.

He was veiled without the presence of relatives, was buried naked,

marginalized by oppression.

Dear brothers, he left everything and went in search of what many would give nothing, let alone his own life, that the heroes just call freedom.

Let us pray for your soul, pray for your courage, pray for your determination, pray for your example of brotherhood, pray for your soul as a Freemason.

Let us pray today, brothers, if not tomorrow we will follow in the footsteps of Óscar Pérez.

And it is in this sense that we call the meditation of the one who honored the apprentice's arm apron that he used, the white apron that did not allow itself to be tainted by the blood of tyranny

Let us meditate on what he has fought against - if we can only contemplate tyranny if it is still possible in the 21st century, if it is possible to accept authoritarianism, folly, injustice, the muzzling of democracy, the banning of brotherhood, among brothers, the persecution of Freemasonry.

Let us meditate on the use of arms against the unarmed people - let us meditate on the legacy of a single Mason and six more courageous brothers who died together at his side.

Let us meditate on our little temple, synthesis of the work of God, synthesis of His vast and beautiful Abode, where there is space for all - meditate with the heart - after all where Freemasonry are there can be no tyranny.

Let us meditate, for this is our mission: self-knowledge, this is our struggle: brotherhood.

Dear Brothers, apprentice does not speak, let us meditate on the silent act of this brother of ours - let us meditate on his act and not on his speech.

Let's meditate on his father's longing to hit the heart of his three children: Sebastian, Santiago, and Dereck Perez - let's meditate on what his children's children will think in the future. "Our grandfather fought for freedom and was a Freemason." In this case, let us meditate on his act of defending the Fatherland, literally "the land of the fathers".

Let us meditate in silence where the spirit is indestructible, where the spirit is united with God, where the spirit is strength and there we leave a small monument to the memory of Oscar Pérez and on his tombstone let the square and the compass shine, let the great letter illuminate G, the letter of the Great Architect of the Universe.

Let us meditate on the murderer who killed him and who is also our brother whose fate some dungeon of tyranny forced him to pull the trigger, otherwise his children would die too.

Let us meditate on Justice, my brethren, let us meditate on Justice, this universal precept, as Universal is Freemasonry. And this is what the Prayer asks for Óscar Pérez, our brother Mason.

Sign: Benilton Lobato Cruz and the brothers of Loja 53 Fenix and Fraternidade, from Belém, PA, Amazônia, Brazil.)