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“Let your love note” message for Lent Bishop Lozano

Gualeguaychú (Entre Rios) (AICA). The Bishop of Gualeguaychú, Bishop Jorge Lozano, released his second pastoral letter under the Year of Mercy which began on December 8, 2015 and end on 20 November 2016.

to mark the beginning of Lent, which began yesterday, Wednesday, February 10, and within the framework of the Year of Mercy, Bishop Jorge Lozano released his second pastoral letter, entitled with the expression: “Let your love it note “. It called to live the time of preparation for Easter by expressive works of mercy and invited to realize a common task for the whole diocese: building a friendly housing people recovering from addictions home.

The letter is divided into three parts, begins by recalling the words of Pope Francis in the Bull of Indiction of the Holy Year, Misericordiae vultus: “May Lent of the Jubilee Year is lived more intensely, as a strong time to celebrate and experience the mercy of God. ”

The Bishop of Gualeguaychú reflects on the need to accept God’s mercy in this Lenten season as she “is lived by the believer’s heart that recognizes reached for the love of God who always forgives, restores lifts and free of all oppression. This experience is also missionary sending. Jesus was anointed to heal afflicted hearts, give sight to the blind, freedom to the oppressed, to proclaim the good news to the poor. ”

“How it hurts those who are close to the heart dejected looking for an oasis in the desert road, sometimes we are in face of vinegar or closure of heart!” Said Monsignor Lozano. “Banish the answers ‘I have no time’, ‘you can not’, ‘here’s the way it’, or many others who express little brother valuation. Meditate on the love God has for us and be merciful as the Father, “said the bishop.

In the second part of the letter, which is subtitled “Mercy, a goal,” Bishop quotes the words of Pope Francisco inviting make this a special way through signs and concrete gestures the works of mercy.

After reiterating the Holy Father’s message for Lent 2016, he said this is “favorable to go out to our existential alienation by listening to the Word and the works of mercy time. By bodily we touch the flesh of Christ in our brothers and sisters who need to be fed, clothed, housed, visited, whereas spiritual touch most directly our sinfulness: advise, teach, forgive, admonish, pray. Therefore, we must never separate the corporal works of spiritual. ”

In the last part of the letter, Archbishop Lozano proposes to all communities of the Diocese of Gualeguaychú, as a gesture during this Jubilee Year, raise money for a specific work of mercy: to build a “friendly house” accommodations for brothers in addiction recovery process. “The problem is all and the solution too,” he said.

In addition, the bishop said that “the house will have 16 seats to be used by people of all the cities of the Diocese of Gualeguaychú. Space to receive and host for a brief brothers with problems related to drug use time, as her ‘little plan’ is discerned. The friendly house is next to the current ‘neighborhood center’ Hogar de Cristo Nazareth, who works in the neighborhood Franco in Gualeguaychú. ”

“To encourage us in solidarity, the beginning of Lent will be given on where each family can put the money you save with the hardships of these 40 days. At home, in the classroom, in the neighborhood, creativity will you guiding generosity, and perhaps replace the envelope a small box, placed in a visible location, remind us that there are brothers who expect our contribution, “said Monsignor Lozano.

And explicandp he concluded that on the envelope “does not go their abundance, but that of which we deprive ourselves so that others have what they need. All marvel at the life and work of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. Also we embrace his teaching of ‘give until it hurts and when it hurts, give even more’. Note that your love for Jesus in the brother. “+

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