In Tedeum, Mons. García Cuerva called on Argentina to stand: “It’s with everyone”

As every May 25, the date on which Argentina commemorates a new anniversary of the first national government, this Sunday took place in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires, the traditional Tedeum, which was attended by the President of the Nation, Javier Milei, and members of his cabinet.

Headed by the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Mons. Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva, the vice president of the Nation, Victoria Villarruel, and the head of the Buenos Aires government, Jorge Macri, also attended the prayer.

At the beginning of his Preachingthe Archbishop clarified that his words seek to be “a contribution, in the light of the Word of God, for the reflection of all the actors of Argentine society,” aware that “later, some phrases can be taken in isolation to want to feed the fragmentation.”

“Fraternity is dying”

Then, he took as reference the gospel in which Jesus resurrects a girl to refer to the situation in the country. In that sense, he warned that “fraternity is dying” in Argentina, “tolerance and respect are dying; and if these values ​​die, the future dies a bit, the hopes of forgeing a United Argentina, a homeland of brothers, die.”

In reference to the rulers, the prelate mentioned that “years of unfulfilled promises and electoral scams made us lose the desire to participate, they made us lose the enthusiasm of getting involved, even of fulfilling the citizen duty to vote, because we think: ‘Again the same thing, nothing will change’; feelings and ideas that emerge when they experience that they lied to us many times,” he acknowledged.

In reference to another time in the evangelical passage, he said that “our country also bleeds: so many brothers who suffer marginality and exclusion; so many adolescents and young victims of drug trafficking – which in some neighborhoods is a parallel state; the claws of the drug and the game;

Within that framework, he insisted: “Many may be responsible for this sad situation, but the opportunity we have to solve it is today, how many more generations and how long should they claim for worthy retirements?”

Numbed by indifference and individualism

“Argentina bleeds in inequality among which Everything is worked (In Argentina, work hard), and those who have lived from privileges that moved them away from the street, from the means of public transport, knowing how much things are worth in a supermarket; Away from the people on foot, they do not feel their pain, or their frustrations, but they do not get excited about their hopes and their daily effort to get ahead, ”he observed.

“And before the pain, sometimes, like those people from the house of the chief of the synagogue, we lower our arms and say how they ‘already died’, there is nothing to do, transforming ourselves into boldness of bad news, in prophets of calamities, even listening to those who poison the soul always rowing what is wrong, what is missing,” he lamented.

Given this scenario, he stated that “Argentina is not dead, but sometimes we are numb by indifference and individualism.”

“We have passed all the limits, disqualification, constant aggression, destroying, defamation, seem current currency,” he warned, and citing Pope Leo XIV, said: “No to the war of words and images.”

Take hand and throw forward

The Archbishop called for dialogue, the culture of the encounter and “urgently” hate, because “we cannot build a nation from the war between us.”

Therefore, he invited “to take us by the hand and throw forward recognizing that the one next to me is a brother, not an enemy or a despicable being to overcome”, and to make use of memory, that “not only will it allow us not to make the same mistakes of the past, but will give us access to those achievements that helped our people overcome the historical crossroads that were found.”

“Argentina, get up, stand up, you can, enough to drag us into the mud of disqualifications and violence, enough to live paralyzed in hate and the past, it is enough to be hopefully on the ground; it is time to stand up, united, not to the shoves in a ‘save who can’, not at the expense of others, or leaving many on the side of the path of life. Our public decisions and policies have to have concrete faces, real stories that have to move us, ”Mons. García Cuerva synthesized.

By an “integrated and reconciled” society

“We are hungry for solidarity capable of opening our enclosures and solitudes. We are hungry, fraternity so that indifference, discredit and disqualification do not fill our tables and do not take first place in our home. We have hunger for hope capable of awakening tenderness and sensitizing the heart opening paths of transformation and conversion,” he admitted.

Within that framework, he recalled that “from the smallest to the largest,” we all have an active role to achieve an “integrated and reconciled” society.

“Let’s start walking together, walking by dialogue, to walk twin, to walk with hope,” the prelate begged, remembering that “the new generations and our children, they deserve to be left a cured country, a reconciled country, a country standing and with horizons,” he said.