The Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City will host on August 31 a mass of blessing specially dedicated to pregnant mothers.
The appointment will be at 12:00 noon, according to the social networks of the Cathedral of Mexico.
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Sunday, August 31
12:00 hrs.
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Jesús Valdez, who together with his wife Ana Correa is in charge of the coordination of the Pastoral of the life of the Primada Archdiocese of Mexico, explained to ACI Press on August 19 that the masses for pregnant mothers began to be held in January of this year, “the third Sunday of each month.”
On this occasion, in a special way, the celebration moved to Sunday, August 31 “because on the 31st it is the day of San Ramón Nonato, and is the patron saint of pregnant women,” Valdez explained.
The initiative takes inspiration from the special blessing made on each month Mons. Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe, archbishop of San Luis Potosí.
Upon knowing that testimony, said Valdez, it was decided to replicate the experience in the Mexican capital, and little by little the group of mothers who participates has been growing.
“It is an effort that is starting little by little, that the voice goes through,” he said, so that pregnant mothers know “that it is special for them.”
Given the special crisis of life in Mexico City, the first Mexican city in which, in 2007, abortion was decriminalized until 12 weeks of gain, from the archdiocese of Mexico, the message is sought to give the message that “we must protect the pregnant woman, it is a blessing that pregnancy for her and for humanity. But of course, she will not feel that it is a blessing if we do not welcome her.”
Catholics and help pregnant women in a vulnerable situation
They are “18 years with abortion” in the Mexican capital, he lamented, something that “has generated a negative effect on pregnant women”, leading to the fact that within families a dynamic is generated “of wanting either or delaying motherhood or plane ending maternity, because they see it as something negative.”
“Then the important thing is that we welcome them as Catholics and, first, pray for them; and second see if any is in a vulnerable situation.”
Valdez stressed that in the Mexican capital there are several houses “with everything installed to receive pregnant women, attend them throughout pregnancy and even a few months after birth, and give them the opportunity to rehant what they have to rebuild in their family life and in their working life.”
“When they feel strengthened, they feel safe, they feel medically treated, of course they do not want to abort,” he said, but “what they want is to save their son.”
These initiatives are mainly deployed by lay people, as is the case with the platform Life.
Four key lines of the pastoral of life in Mexico City
Jesús Valdez stressed that the pastoral of life in the archdiocese of Mexico works in four lines of action, beginning with prayer, “the spiritual.”
“The second line is social support, that is, household houses,” he said, later pointing out that “the third line is the formative,” attending “other pastorals such as youth or as the family with our contents, so that they also help us protect life.”
“And the fourth line is the public promotion that everyone’s lives must be taken,” he said.
David Ramos
Graduate in Communication Sciences by the Private University of the North in Trujillo, Peru. With more than 12 years of experience in Catholic journalism working in ACI Press, I am based in Mexico since 2018. I have covered the trips of Pope Francis to Ecuador, Paraguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Panama.