2023-08-07 18:02:00
The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Monsignor Jorge Ignacio Garcia Cuervawarned this Monday, August 7 that “there is no pocket that reaches”and “What you take in your pocket is eaten by bloody inflation” when offering his homily in front of the Sanctuary of San Cayetano on the occasion of the celebration of the day of the patron of “bread and work”.
“We ask San Cayetano a well-paid decent job; we ask for peace for our people crossed by the violence of social and economic insecurity; the insecurity of not having a bright future, nor hope for children and grandchildren; We ask for public policies that recognize the effort and activity of so many brothers who work their backs every day,” said the monsignor in another part of his address.
He also asked for “better bread” while “We cannot resign ourselves to the fact that our poorest children and families live on polenta, noodles and rice“That’s why he warned that”there is no worse poverty than that which deprives its people of the dignity of work“.
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“We do not want to settle, we dream of more and better work for everyone because there is no worse poverty than that which deprives the people of work and the dignity of work,” said the new archbishop during his speech.
Thousands of Catholics attended this Sunday at San Cayetano, in Liniers, to ask for work, in preparation for the religious services this Monday.
Those devotees who attended the San Cayetano Sanctuary, either individually or in marches organized by social movements, asked for peace, bread and work. There were thousands of people during the various masses that were held in the sanctuary throughout the day.
There, García Cuerva considered that although the unemployment rate in the first quarter of this year “has been of 6,9%y can be lower than in other periods of Argentine history”, it is not necessary to “settle” and “ask for more”.
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“Today in San Cayetano we are demanding: today, like every August 7, we ask you for work, but we are going for more: we ask you better work, we ask you for better bread, we ask you for more health, we ask you for peace for our people; and we do it with great faith, despite exclusion, inflation, disenchantment and broken dreams“, he raised.
Likewise, he dedicated a large part of his homily to the “great workers not always recognized or valued” and asked for a “decent work, well paid” for them.
“I think of those who work in recycling, collecting cardboard many hours a day, and who with great effort put them in their cars, sell them, and thus bring bread to their family tables,” he exemplified.
García Cuerva called to think of all those who live in a precarious situation with “poorly paid work, in black or slave labor” that “takes them away from family and friends.
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At the time of closing, García Cuerva quoted words of Pope Francis when he said that “In a truly developed society, work is an inalienable dimension of social life“.
“It is not only a way to earn a living, but also a channel for personal growth for establish healthy relationshipsto express himself, to share gifts, to feel co-responsible for improving the world, and ultimately, to live as a people”, he explained, taking the words of the Supreme Pontiff.
As final words, Cuerva expressed: “San Cayetano, we ask you for peace, bread, health and work, more beggars than ever, this year we are going for more.”
Who was Saint Cajetan?
Cayetano de Thiene was an Italian priest, founder of the Theatine Order of Clerics Regular, who in 1671 was proclaimed a saint by Pope Clement X. He is the patron saint of administrative managers, as well as people seeking work and the unemployed, and of the bread
Saint Cajetan died in 1547, at the age of 66, when he was the superior of his order in Naples. The feast of San Cayetano is held on August 7 by the Catholic Church.
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