“May the bread reach everyone”

“We must worry about bread reaching everyone,” said Bishop Oscar Ojea, president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (CEA), this Sunday in the Christmas greetings message from the Catholic Church.

In a message with political meaning in the face of the economic crisis and the beginning of Javier Milei’s governmentthe bishop of San Isidro considered that “there is no possible way to build peace“If the bread does not reach “mainly, to all the boys and girls of the country,” he urged Argentines to worry about achieving that goal.

“We must worry that the bread reaches everyone, that there is no no one left without that primary goodmainly our children, otherwise there is no possible way to build peace,” said Ojea in his video message on the occasion of Christmas, broadcast by the CEA on its YouTube channel.

Ojea showed that “the Child Jesus has a special concern for peace, he has come to bring peace. We truly have a serious concern so that food can reach all the boys and girls of our country,” he expressed.

“There is no peace without justice“, he concluded at that point.

And he added: “If we don’t worry about them, we don’t worry, and if we don’t worry, we will be men and women without horizonmen and women whose lives are not worth living.

According to a report released at the beginning of this month by the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (ODSA) of the Argentine Catholic University (UCA), urban multidimensional poverty rose to 44.7% of the total in the third quarter of 2023. the population and 62.9% of children and adolescents.

The measurement figures reflected a growth in the indices compared to the same quarter of 2022, when poverty reached 43.1%.

“The Child Jesus wants to accompany our life, share our smallness and our crying, our limitation as human beings who need the support and support of others to exist, we are not self-sufficient,” urged Bishop Ojea and added: “He has a concern especially for peace.”

In the message he shared for Christmas, Ojea indicated that “God has become a human being and has come to share life with us; from the beginning, he has wanted to be like us and live the experience of being born.”

“We don’t remember our birth, but it is a hard experience. We are all born crying, we come out of an environment like our mother’s womb and We are faced with oxygen.with the light that they are hostile media; “We find ourselves alone, small, crying with very little weight, totally depending on others,” he said.

The president of the Episcopal Conference expressed that the religious tradition of kissing “the little feet of the Child, which in essence is kissing the feet of our brothers and sisters” and reflected on that representation: “The Child God wanted to get muddy with us, to walk our land, become one of us and teach us to serve; kissing the feet of the child is committing ourselves to the service of brothers and sisters“.

Given the proximity of the Christmas celebration, Ojea asked to “rescue these essential concerns” and left a message. “They are going to lead us to live the mystery of Christmas Eve and Christmas in depth, to make us good, configured with Jesus to be able to serve our brothers better every day.” he pointed out.