While the social organizations close to the ruling party are mobilizing this Sunday under the slogan “bread, peace and work”, the Church sent a message with a strong political content in the homily for Saint Cajetan, pointing to the concern about the crisis and the rise in prices.
Through the parable of the Good Samaritan, Cardinal Mario Poli gave the homily in which he expressed the Church’s concern for the social situation, which affects the most needy sectors.
Faithful devotees to the saint San Cayetano receive the blessing. Church of the Linares neighborhood. Photo: Mario Quinteros
“The bread that feeds our life and that daily becomes more unattainable because of suffocating inflation what we suffer and what generates misery“, he expressed.
Cardinal Poli expressed his concern about the increase in people who need social assistance to survive, in the midst of the economic crisis.
“How can we not think about the growing number of brothers and sisters who go to the dining rooms on a daily basis, about the elderly who cannot buy their medicine, about the families whose income is increasingly insignificant? As a song says: ‘No it is possible to die of hunger in the blessed land of bread,’” he said.
San Cayetano is one of the most devoted religious figures in the country. Photo EFE/ Juan Ignacio Roncoroni
The cardinal asked the parishioners to let themselves be questioned by the parable of the Bible, to “show solidarity and fraternal attitudes that allow us to rebuild this Argentina that hurts us all.”
Poli also quoted Pope Francis and assured that in the midst of pain, the only way out for society is to follow the example of the Good Samaritan, against those who do not sympathize with the pain of others.
At the same time, he highlighted the many “cayetanos” who do not pass by the pain of those who are on the shoulder of the path of life. And he added that it is these actions that make “expect times of encounter and peace among Argentines.”
“The bread that is requested for all, the one that is achieved with one’s own work, is a cry for justice,” the prelate said.
For the celebration, the church arranged that a church priest is available on each block to bless the parishioners who bring their ears of corn and objects to be blessed.
“Glorious San Cayetano, may we never lack bread and work in our house,” reads a large poster placed in front of the temple at 150 Cuzco Street.
7 blocks in line in the march for San Cayetano
Meanwhile, Somos Barrios de Pie, the Clasista and Combative Current and the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy, the so-called “trident of San Cayetano”, are mobilized to claim the Government for greater assistance.
The organizations related to the ruling party, but which in recent times have had an approach to the toughest sectors of the Piquetera Unit, mobilize this Sunday as they do every year for the date that commemorates San Cayetano.
The columns of militants left early from Liniers, where the sanctuary is located, and it is expected that around 2:00 p.m. they will converge on Plaza de Mayo to carry out the central act, where claims to the Government will be heard.
“We need the payment of the IMF debt to be suspended and that this money be used for policies in favor of those who have the least, who have been suffering for years,” they expressed through the statement that called for the mobilization.
Hundreds of people form more than seven blocks in line this morning around the parish of San Cayetano, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Liniers, which after two years of pandemic reopened its doors to the parishioners to celebrate the patron saint of bread and I work on a day.
Néstor Suárez is 50 years old and is from Lanús. In his hands he has a large printed image of San Cayetano and he approaches to bless him. “I come every year to thank our patron saint. I always had a job and since I was a child I thank him for what he gives us,” said the man who admits that he always carries an image of San Cayetano in his wallet.
Mirtha Vázquez, 63, from the Boedo neighborhood, said that she returned to this celebration after 10 years to ask for a job for her son “I have come for my son who has been looking for a job for months but has no luck. I hope the Lord will help soon because we are desperate,” said the lady wearing a Saint Benedict medal.
“Glorious San Cayetano, may we never lack bread and work in our house,” reads a large poster placed in front of the temple at 150 Cuzco Street.
In each block there is a priest of the church to bless the parishioners who bring their ears of corn and objects to be blessed.
Néstor Suárez is 50 years old and is from Lanús. In his hands he has a large printed image of San Cayetano and he approaches to bless him. “I come every year to thank our patron saint. I always had a job and since I was a child I thank him for what he gives us,” said the man who admits that he always carries an image of San Cayetano in his wallet.
Mirtha Vázquez, 63, from the Boedo neighborhood, said that she returned to this celebration after 10 years to ask for a job for her son “I have come for my son who has been looking for a job for months but has no luck. I hope the Lord will help soon because we are desperate,” said the lady wearing a Saint Benedict medal.