Homeland Festivities: Archdiocese of Mexico encourages unity in the country

At the gates of the celebration of the beginning of the Independence process in the country, the Primada Archdiocese of Mexico called on unity, and said that “the Eucharist gives us the fuel to make way in Mexico.”

The celebration of Patrias Fiestas in Mexico recalls that the Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla made the proclamation that served as a starting point to the independence process of the country, which is called the “cry of pain” in the parish of Our Lady of Dolores, in Dolores Hidalgo, in Guanajuato.

Traditionally, on the night of September 15, the president of the country, as well as governors and mayors, carry out a harangue in memory of that first proclamation.

The independence of Mexico was completed on September 27, 1821, when it entered Mexico City Agustín de Iturbide at the head of the so -called trigrator army, which defended three “guarantees”: the Catholic faith as a national religion, independence with respect to Spain and the union between Americans and Europeans.

In the publishing house of his weekly from the faith, entitled Long live the unity of Mexicans!the Archdiocese regrets that “there are times when Mexico hurts”, among them “when we know some history emanating from insecurity, when we know of those to whom violence or corruption snatched their future, or when the division cools the public soul.”

However, it emphasizes that “this country also knows how to get up when you decide to work together. We are not talking about uniformity, which annuls, but of plural unity, that allows you to dissent without destroying and adding hands for the essentials: taking care of the life, dignity and future of our children.”

The Eucharist: “Our starting point”

“From the Church we want to pay that unit. And our starting point is the Eucharist,” he says.

“The movement we need,” says the archdiocese of Mexico, is “‘go’, mentioned by the priest at the end of each Mass, a ‘vaan’ that means getting away to meet the one who suffers.”

“If the Eucharist does not make us more brothers, more fair and more available, it stays in rite, but if it makes us shared bread, the parish becomes a country workshop,” he says.

It is necessary, precise, a unit “To combat the evils that afflict our country also demands honesty to call evil by its name; courage not to normalize extortion or settle for ‘so it is here’; and, of course, temperance in the face of polarization that reduces everything to sides”.

“This unit we invite from the Church does not cancel criticism, guides it. It asks us to lower the volume to shout and raise the frequency of the encounter,” he emphasizes.

“For those of us who believe in God, the Eucharist gives us the fuel to make the way in Mexico,” results the archdiocese of Mexico.

“If we are there, in the party and in shared street, we trust that we can leave this stage of fear and fracture. Not with magic, but with hopeful realism, with the sum of small acts, as well as our best ancestors became great,” he concludes.