The impact of the adjustment carried out by the Government is very present in the Church's preaching on the occasion of the celebration of Holy Week. The last reference came on the eve of Easter Sunday from the president of the Episcopate, Bishop
Oscar Ojea
, who
specifically targeted those laid off in the State and in the private sector
as a result of the recession and warned about the risk of being insensitive. In this situation.
“The day that the globalization of indifference wins over us, the day that our hearts harden so much that we have no sensitivity for the brothers and sisters who are left without work, on that day we will not be able to call ourselves Christians,” Ojea stated in his reflection. weekly broadcast on social networks. And she completed: “That day we are going to say that we only take care of ourselves and others… what does it matter?
In that sense, he said that “lately we have received at the Episcopal Conference diverse groups of people who are left without work, people who are left on the 'side of the road'; “This wound is tremendous.” Among these groups were workers from the Télam company, which the Government announced would close.
Ojea began by saying that “the fruits of Easter are the peace and joy that the risen Jesus brings us, but peace, in addition to being a gift, is a task; Peace is built, it is not an industrial product, it is artisanal. It is built with everyday work, with everyday life, closeness, dedication, and it is built with solidarity.”
“How much we need it in this time of emergency, in this time of crisis, where everyday life costs so much, how much we need solidarity!” he exclaimed.
He noted that Benedict XVI “taught us that faith is a gift from God. Faith frees us from the isolation of the self and leads us to communion, but every act of faith is, in itself and as such, an encounter with our brothers; It is an act that leads me to be more responsible for the lives of others.”
“Let us ask the Lord for this grace to discover Christian charity with a new imagination. Easter always gives us new creativity to be able to grow in love, to be able to grow in charity,” he stated.
During the week, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge García Cuerva, said that
“we must think that when measures are taken there are brothers who are victims of those measures.”
However, he considered that "we must all take responsibility" for inflation, "stop blaming outside and having this adolescent behavior in which the fault always lies with the other."
After describing
inflation as “an endemic disease”
and as
“the poor man's tax,”
he noted that the social situation “has been very complicated for a long time.”
NE