2023-10-01 13:45:00
The 49th Pilgrimage to Luján. This year the motto was: “Mother, we are in your hands, give us strength to unite.” A crowd participated in the ceremony.
This Sunday Monsignor Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva led the traditional mass. Before hundreds of thousands of people who mobilized, García Cuerva said: «María de Luján, we are in your hands because we are hopeless and sad“We need to recover joy and hope.”
«Your hands support us in this time of economic crisis against those who put their hands in our pockets because of the inflation, which is the poor man’s tax“, he pointed.
«In short, Mary – said the archbishop of Buenos Aires before a packed square –, We put Argentina in your hands everything that hurts us a lot.
This year The pilgrimage was attended by García Cuervawho walked with the faithful all the way to Luján, in a unpublished fact since never before had a Buenos Aires archbishop made that journey on foot.
Why the Pilgrimage to the Basilica of Luján is carried out
Thousands of people walk to Luján every year to meet the Virgin Mary. Some faithful do it for physical proof that this entails or to fulfill a promisehowever the vast majority do it as a Act of faith.
This year not only did he summon thousands of faithful who usually carry out this festive and religious tour, but on this occasion those who promised to walk joined in towards the city of Buenos Aires in case the National Team Argentina will be consecrated in the World Cup the Qatar 2022.
The loyals They left yesterday from the Sanctuary of San Cayetanofrom the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Liniers, with the Pilgrim Image of the Virgin and They traveled 58 kilometers until you reach the Luján Basic School.
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