Worshiping Papi?

[Alice Faber]

Barbara Need wrote:
> 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?)

David Ortiz, aka Big Papi, plays baseball for the Red Sox. In many ways,
he's the "face of the franchise".

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