Such an attraction was accepted in the course of the plenary session of the Bishops’ Convention held on Tuesday.
“On the finish of the assembly, the bishops remind the clergymen as soon as once more that they’re known as to evangelise the Gospel and serve the communities entrusted to them. As half 2 of canon 287 establishes, “clergy and monks should not take an lively half in politics and the actions of political events, until, by the choice of the competent ecclesiastical authority, it’s obligatory to guard the rights of the Church or to advertise the frequent good”, in accordance with the report of the Bishops’ Convention.
“Due to this fact, any type of help for particular candidates for political positions needs to be averted,” it states.
The bishops additionally famous that expressing help for candidates needs to be averted not solely in church buildings and monasteries, but additionally on the institutional and personal social community accounts of clergy and monks, in addition to on different technique of disseminating info.
This attraction was accepted by the Lithuanian bishops’ convention following Vilius Sikorskas, the pastor of Išlahos within the Prienai district, expressed his private help to the lawyer Ignais Vėgėle, who intends to run for the put up of president, in the course of the Shepherd’s Mass final 12 months.
“We accompany our homeland Lithuania with honest prayer, we pray for these in energy, Lord, we want that the election of our chief is predicated on the duty and love of all of us. Personally, I categorical nice sympathy to lawyer Vēgēle, that is my prayer. Everybody accompany their favourite. We pray that God will give our homeland Lithuania leaders, politicians who love not their teams, not their events, however the social gathering that will probably be known as Lithuania”, the clergyman mentioned then.
The recording of this prayer is posted on the parish’s YouTube account.
This 12 months, three elections will probably be held in Lithuania: in Might – for the president, in June – for the European Parliament, in October – for the Seimas.
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2024-06-17 10:47:51
