Guanajuato, Mexico, Nov 27, 2019 / 12:05 am (CNA).- more than 10,000 lay Catholics in Mexico renewed their consecration to Christ the King at a special Mass and ceremony over the weekend.
The experience was held on the foot of the Christ the King monument in Bicentennial Park, discovered in Silao, Guanajuato state. It become held on November 23, the eve of the Solemnity of Christ the King as a part of the "Day of Laity" celebrations that also honored Blessed Anacleto González Flores, a martyr of the Cristero warfare, whom the bishops have chosen as the patron of the laity.
Archbishop Franco Coppola, apostolic nuncio in Mexico, presided over a Mass for the event, which become concelebrated by using Archbishop Alfonso Cortés of León, Bishop Gerardo Díaz Vázquez, who serves as president of the president of FAJULAVI (commission on household, younger people, children and existence), and Bishop Víctor Alejandro Aguilar Ledesma, president of the bishops' ministry to the laity, as well as a huge neighborhood of priests.
The experience also covered a concert, theatrical performance, testimonies, and a considerable number of shows.
Organizers explained that the consecration to Christ as King turned into mainly meaningful given the "bad tradition of loss of life" facing the Mexican americans, manifested via "a magnificent risk to existence, the family, simple freedoms, the dying of so many blameless people at the hands of equipped crime, and the ever-starting to be expense of abortions in our nation."
"along with all of that, we've additionally suffered the awful pain of receiving the news of the loss of life of our brother monks and desecrations and sacrileges in our church buildings, for which this very day we also make an act of reparation to Jesus within the Eucharist," they stated.
Violence towards priests has been denounced as a big difficulty in Mexico. Some two dozen clergymen have been killed within the nation considering the fact that 2012, in response to reviews.
different Christ the King pursuits were additionally held throughout Mexico, including in San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Yucatán, and Mexico metropolis.
this text turned into at the beginning posted by means of our sister agency, ACI Prensa. It has been translated and adapted by means of CNA.
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