In a message that responds to the controversy over political chants performed during the celebration of the Eucharist in churches in the Argentine capital, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Mons. Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva, was clear: “The Mass is something sacred.”
“The Eucharist is something sacred, that is why the Mass is something sacred, because it is in the deepest core of the faith of our people,” said the prelate when celebrating Mass in the San Ildefonso parish, in Buenos Aires, on December 15. June.
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“Here we come to feed on unity, brotherhood, peace. That is why it is not good to use the Mass to divide, to fragment, to partisan,” he added.
In recent days, videos of interruptions to the celebration of the Mass were broadcast to sing political chants such as “the Homeland is not for sale,” with a markedly contrary tenor to the government of President Javier Milei.
The first occasion It happened on Sunday, June 9.when the Passionist priest Carlos Saracini interrupted the Eucharistic celebration to sing the political song in the parish of the Holy Cross.
A few days later, on June 14, near the end of the Mass presided over by Monsignor Gustavo Carrara, Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, the participants, and at least one of the priests in the church, began to sing “the Homeland does not sells.” The prelate, who interrupted the songs to continue with the prayer, He published an apology that same day. “to anyone who might feel offended.”
The Archbishop of Buenos Aires pointed out that “it is not good to use the Mass so that we end up separated as brothers. And it is not good to count on the good faith of those who participate in the Eucharist or of the priests who are invited to preside over it so that what has happened in recent days happens, as happened yesterday to Bishop Gustavo Carrara. That is why the Mass is something sacred.”
“The Mass is to unite us, the Mass is to make us brothers, the Mass is to feed ourselves and be witnesses of the Kingdom in the streets,” said the Argentine archbishop.
David Ramos
Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Universidad Privada del Norte in Trujillo, Peru. With more than 12 years of experience in Catholic journalism working at ACI Prensa, I have been based in Mexico since 2018. I have covered Pope Francis’ trips to Ecuador, Paraguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Panama.