Representative Heather Wilson: “this is a very special day. Something special is happening in New York City this morning. There is a small church in…”

“this is a very special day. Something special is happening in New York City this morning. There is a small church in Barelas in the old part of Albuquerque, New Mexico called Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church. In the 1970s, they had to tear down their church because it was structurally unsound. It had two bell towers. They rebuilt the church across the street, but the bells were lost until recently, and they found one of the huge bells and they are now going to rebuild the bell tower. Some leaders in the community contacted me and the Archbishop and wrote to the mayor of the City of New York and asked for two beams from the World Trade Center to incorporate into the design of the new bell tower. Some people from New Mexico, including Father Moore and John Garcia and Sosimo Padilla and a member of my staff, are in New York this morning at ground zero picking up those two beams that were given to us by the City of New York. Those bells at the Barelas bell tower rang when World War II ended. They rang for weddings and funerals. They rang every Sunday morning over the City of Albuquerque to call people to worship. We are pleased in Albuquerque and thankful to the people of New York that the bell towers will be rebuilt and the bells will ring again. They will ring in remembrance, and they will ring in the call to worship. Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in Albuquerque is a beautiful church where about 800 people meet to worship.”