SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS.- “Marcelo Pérez Pérez was an extraordinary priest“Always a servant of the people,” said Cardinal Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel this Monday in Chiapas.
The Cardinal, who ordained the priest Marcelo Pérez in 2002 as one of the first servants of the Church of indigenous origindescribed him as a man always on the side of the people.
“An extraordinary priest, very faithful to the church, faithful to the teaching of the Church, to the Word of Godbut faithful to the people. Always a servant of the people, always inspired by Jesus Christ.”
“Mexico is not well,” says Cardinal Felipe Arizmendi
Before him assassination of the prelate happened yesterday in Chiapas, Arizmendi Esquivel noted: “Don’t say that Mexico is fine, please“.
At the end of the present body mass, which was held in the central park, which was the site of the talks between the EZLN and the federal government, Arizmendi Esquivel, bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas, until November 2017, He offered a press conference before leaving for the center of the country, where he would have to carry out an assignment.
When he had been at the head of the Diocese for two years, Arizmendi Esquivel witnessed the profession of faith made by the young Marcelo Pérez Pérez, then 25 years old.
“I ordained him a priest 22 years ago.”he recalled. “It is a gift from God. A gift also from the Tzotziles to the Church, to the Diocese, and he was always a builder of peace.”
Accompanied by bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Rodrigo Aguilar Martínez, the Cardinal explained that not only Chiapas is immersed in a wave of violence in the country.
“I am now living in Toluca. I am experiencing it firsthand, there in my town, in the southern region of the State of Mexico. There the advantage, in quotes, which is a disadvantage, is that it is a single cartel: La Familia Michoacana”.
Violence in Chiapas: murders, disappearances…
But in the case of Chiapas, there are several criminal organizations that are immersed in a conflict that has caused the displacement of people, disappearances and homicides.
“When posters are removed here, things become much more complicated. In Chiapas we always had problems, as in all of Mexico, but at that time it was something else. Now there are other situations that have changed,” he said.
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Images of the last goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, murdered in San Cristóbal de las Casas -
Images of the last goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, murdered in San Cristóbal de las Casas -
Hundreds of people came to say goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, in Chiapas -
Images of the last goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, murdered in San Cristóbal de las Casas -
Hundreds of people came to say goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, in Chiapas -
Images of the last goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, murdered in San Cristóbal de las Casas -
Hundreds of people came to say goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, in Chiapas -
Hundreds of people came to say goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, in Chiapas -
Images of the last goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, murdered in San Cristóbal de las Casas -
Hundreds of people came to say goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, in Chiapas -
Images of the last goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, murdered in San Cristóbal de las Casas -
Hundreds of people came to say goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, in Chiapas -
Images of the last goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, murdered in San Cristóbal de las Casas -
Hundreds of people came to say goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, in Chiapas -
Images of the last goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, murdered in San Cristóbal de las Casas -
Hundreds of people came to say goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, in Chiapas -
Images of the last goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, murdered in San Cristóbal de las Casas -
Hundreds of people came to say goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, in Chiapas
“The violence has caused a crisis in the countrythat means that the country is decomposing.”
“Unfortunately our call to the authorities is to see the smart way to disarm those armed groups here and there.”
“Don’t wait for people to file a complaint. People are not going to make complaints because life is at stake”, he warned.
Strategy for the disarmament of criminal groups
“What must be done is to implement a strategy to proceed with the disarmament of criminal organizations.”
“So here The important thing is that they see intelligently what to do to dismantle, disarm, remove, eliminate these groups.”
Images of the last goodbye to the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, murdered in San Cristóbal de las Casas
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“We don’t want more violence, no. But yes, these groups should be disarmed “that are causing so much damage in all parts of the country.”
He insisted on exalting the work of priest Marcelo Pérez, who for 22 years worked in communities in the Northern and Altos regions of Chiapas.
The work of priest Marcelo Pérez stands out
“And extraordinary priest, very faithful to the Churchfaithful to the teaching of the Church, to the Word of God, but faithful to the people. Always faithful servant of the people. Always inspired by Jesus Christ.”
Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martínez described how terrible murder of priest Marcelo Pérez It occurred on Sunday morning, when he had finished saying mass at 7 a.m., in the parish of the Cuxtitali neighborhood, east of the municipal seat of San Cristóbal de las Casas.
Following the murder, the Bishop has not stopped receiving messages from officials who have promised to apply the law against the material and intellectual authors.
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“His death cannot go unpunishedbut Jesus Christ already announced that the grain of wheat has to die to bear fruit, to produce an ear.”
“Part Marcelo’s life has ended in the human, in the earthly, but we hope, we have firm hope in Christ Jesus, who will give full life. That peace will grow in many people who are already at this moment reconsidering how to behave more decisively in favor of peace.”
At the end of the conference, the cardinal traveled to the Ángel Albino Corzo airport, because he had to be at a meeting in the center of the country.
Thousands of Tzotzils passed around the coffin to say goodbye to priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez and offer the family an offering.
The priest He will be buried this Tuesday morningafter a mass in the temple of San Andrés. In the back of the church built in 1911, he will be buried.
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