The Juneteenth prayer vigil was a continuation of our work as parishioners to end racism, the deepest moral and spiritual crisis in the United States. It was a continuation of the vigil we held to remember the enslaved of this neighborhood, the Martin Luther King commemoration, and our group gatherings to reflect on racism and the church. Popes, bishops, and theologians have all denounced the sin of racism. We are called as Catholics to name the sin and dismantle it. We consider the commemoration of the ending of slavery crucial to our Catholicism in the keeping of choosing life over death. Certainly choosing life and promoting the sacredness of all life necessitates being antiracist, as racism and the hate is spews is deathly, as we have witnessed so clearly. We gathered in lamentation, remembrance, and hope. We grieved. We remembered our brothers and sisters who have been killed. We commemorated Juneteenth as a sign of hope that we can dismantle racism.