Gathered in their 125th Assembly, the Argentine bishops sent a letter to Pope Francis in which they thank him for the significant Synod of Synodality, for the “gift” of the exhortation He loved usand they are “open and eager” to visit the country.
From the “La Montonera” retreat house, in the Buenos Aires city of Pilar, the members of the Argentine Episcopal Conference shared with the Holy Father their joy at the renewal of the Executive Commission and the other episcopal commissions, a process that, they assure, He lived “in a synodal and fraternal spirit.”
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In the letter, the bishops thank the Pope for “everything that the Synod of Synodality has meant to the Church, which now challenges us to transmit it, to make it accessible to our people, and to embody it in concrete gestures of service.”
They also mention the “gift” of the encyclical He loved usrecently published and addressed to the universal Church, “but which has for us an air of our land, an air of family, in addition to the authorship in part of our beloved Diego Fares, which means a true caress to our hearts,” they affirm. , in reference to the Argentine priest who died in 2022, whose unpublished writings inspired much of the papal document.
This caress and tenderness, the bishops admit, “we need to experience to transmit to our people, hard hit by poverty, insecurity, lack of work, uncertainty,” while recognizing that “those simplest, most vulnerable , most forgotten, are true teachers of hope.”
Finally, from the Episcopate they are “always open and eager for your visit to this land of yours that loves and waits for you.”
“We pray for you and ask your blessing for the new Executive Commission and for all of us, the bishops, who, although fragile, want to better serve our Church that is pilgrim in Argentina,” they conclude, with “a hug in Christ and his Mother Most Holy, Our Lady of Luján” who this Friday they will visit in her sanctuary to offer the Eucharist, thank her and ask for her protection.
Juliet Villar
I am a journalist, with a degree in communication from the National University of La Matanza in Argentina. I have work experience in non-governmental organizations. Since 2016 I have been dedicated to Catholic journalism, first at the Argentine Catholic Information Agency (AICA) and, since 2022, as ACI Prensa correspondent for Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia.