Posted on 09/13/2024 4:20:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The vendor works 13-hour shifts, 7 days a week to provide for his family in Mexico.
A Gardena-based fruit vendor has received immeasurable support from the community after a video of him praying before his workday went viral. Amber Frias reports for the NBC4 News at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024.
A Gardena fruit vendor’s moment of faith went viral after he was recorded kneeling in prayer before beginning his workday.
Widespread video of Luis Angel Morales was posted on TikTok earlier this week has since garnered more than 1 million views. The video, taken by another user, shows Morales praying in front of his fruit cart with text on the screen that reads, “Support street vendors, hopefully he makes money.”
“I entrust myself in God a lot,” Morales, a devout Catholic, said.
The fruit vendor said he arrived in the U.S. from Puebla, Mexico just two months ago and with him, brought his diligence in supporting his family back home and his faith. He said his morals were instilled in him by his parents.
A family-focused person, Morales works 13-hour shifts, 7 days a week at the fruit cart to provide for his wife and two young children who are still in Mexico. He said although he misses them, he knows the sacrifice he makes in being apart for them is giving them a great deal of support.
“My thing is to earn money to provide for my family,” he said.
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The viral video has helped Morales in his goal to provide for his family. He said since it was posted, he’s experienced a significant increase in customers. Despite the popularity, his mission remains the same and he said he’ll continue his workday with the practice that made him viral.
Those who want to purchase fruit from Morales can find him selling mangos, watermelon, pineapple and other fresh fruit near the intersection of Orchard Avenue and Redondo Beach Boulevard.
Ok...not to be a downer, but does he have a license for that cart?...and all the permits required of a Gringo?
If he was white, they would call him a christian national supremacist praying to ‘his god’.
License and also, does he pay taxes?
Try that if you’re a citizen.
As soon as they have enough dinero, they buy a Mexican flag and start waving it around.
Good for him for praying 🙏🏻.
That’s really nice, but when NBC LA is reporting it I have to wonder why.
“Good for him for praying”
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But praying to an IDOL will never save you...
In England you had better not silently pray in the wrong place. Cops can read your mind. American cops are probably attending group classes on the mind reading thing.
Woman released from jail after pushback:
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, the woman twice arrested for silent prayer outside U.K. abortion clinics, has received a police apology and confirmation that she will not face charges for violating a local “buffer zone” protection order.
Though Vaughan-Spruce said she would return to the clinic to pray, she warned that her treatment has implications for the future of basic freedoms in the U.K.
“This isn’t 1984, but 2023 — I should never have been arrested or investigated simply for the thoughts I held in my own mind,” Vaughan-Spruce said, alluding to George Orwell’s dystopian novel. “Silent prayer is never criminal,” she said in a Sept. 22 statement.
On March 6, Vaughan-Spruce was arrested for praying in a “buffer zone” outside an abortion clinic on Station Road, Birmingham.
I’m glad he’s a follower of the LORD, but I take it he’s illegal. So I have mixed emotions; sounds like the kind of immigrant we want, but we want them here legally. Lord have mercy on us all.
NBC is using a false example to excuse Biden’s open Borders.
There is plenty of LEGAL pathways for LEGAL immigrants from Mexico. Jumping the line is unnecessary and spits on those that do not jump the line.
What idol?
Oh boy, the anti Catholic crowd showed up. Predictable and unfortunate.
CC
They can be very tiresome.
Praying can still be done in Mexico where is family is?
Good praying -but we know why they are positioning this as they are, the message is illegal aliens are not bad, much like every trans guy in the movies is depicted as a good guy as in movie “Otto”
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