Mons. Guillermo Elías, Apostolic Administrator of Piura, shared Pope Francis’ message of consolation for the family and friends of the schoolchildren and others who died in an accident in the jungle of Peru, where 12 people lost their lives, including a two-year-old child. years.
“Dear brothers, as Apostolic Administrator of Piura and Tumbes I have wanted to be with you,” said the prelate at the end of the present body Mass celebrated at the San Jacinto school in the district of Vice in the Piura region, in northern Peru. .
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“And remember this beautiful greeting from the Holy Father, through the Nuncio: You are not alone. The Holy Father has heard the echo of this terrible news and he asked the Nuncio (in Peru) and he asked me to give them this greeting of consolation, that he accompanies this process and that he also walks with us as a people,” added the bishop.
The Mass It was celebrated on Tuesday, November 26 at the San Jacinto school, before the mortal remains of the minor students Cris Jair Panta Eca, Pedro Nizama Goicoechea, Jessica Mayte Panta Reyes, Sandra Noemí Chulle Chunga; and Mrs. Carmen Huamán Timana, mother of the educational center.
All of them lost their lives in the accident that occurred on Sunday the 24th in Moyobamba, in the Peruvian Amazon, when the bus that was taking them to the city of Tarapoto, on an end-of-year trip, tried to pass another vehicle and collided with a van. , then falling into an abyss.
In addition to the deceased, the accident left another 13 students injured, who are being treated in hospitals in the Amazon region of San Martín.
The case is already under investigation in the Jepelacio Mixed Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, according to reports ANDEANthe official news agency of the Peruvian state.
“A moment that opens to hope”
At the beginning of the Mass, Bishop Elías highlighted that for him “it was very important to share with you this painful moment, but from faith, a moment that opens to hope because if Christ had not risen, faith would be vain.”
“That is why we are here, to pray for these young people, to ask the Lord that in their tender age he makes them (the students who died in the accident) live that fullness for which He came and resurrected.”
“Life is a gift of which we know when it begins but we do not know when it will end. Examine your heart and you find sin, with all confidence ask God to forgive you,” exhorted the Peruvian prelate.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.