Worshiping Papi?

[Barbara Need]

At 16:01 -0400 28/8/07, Mark Sacks wrote:
>In a newsletter from Hispanic Trending, I came across the following:
>
>On Sundays at La Casa del Carpintero, or the Carpenter's House, they've
>raised twin yellow banners for churchgoers that read "Welcome" and
>"Bienvenidos."
>
>As a complement to the regular 11:30 a.m. Spanish service at the independent
>Pentecostal church, where they've worshipped Papi for years, there's now a
>9:30 a.m. English one where the faithful praise God the Father.
>
>What does "worshipped Papi" mean? God the Father? David Ortiz? I can't
>find an explanation for this.

I would assume it meant "God the Father". Papi means "Daddy" or "Dad"
(that what I called my Paraguayan host father, just as his children
did). It would not surprise me that they would use a familiar term
for God. (Who is David Ortiz?)

Barbara

Barbara Need
UChicago

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