Message of the National Pastoral Congress, 2019
“You yourselves commit injustices and defraud, and you do
this to your brothers and sisters.”
1 Corinthians 6: 8
We, the youth and other pastoral workers of the Catholic
Church of Honduras, meeting in the 2019 National Pastoral Congress, “A young
church which walks, listens, and shares with the youth”, in the face of the
events of the last few days which have filled us with concern, we wish to
express the following:
I.
We fully support the
courageous, direct, and timely message of our bishops: “May your love be
sincere: abhor evil and attach yourselves to the good” of June 6.
II.
All the evil which the
bishops denounce – which include the decisions of the Executive, the way of legislating,
the crises of the state businesses of water, energy, transportation, the
actions of the police, the violation of the Constitution, the lamentable
behavior of political agents, the attempts to privatize health and education – have
direct repercussions, harming the children and the youth of the country, we who
constitute almost half of the population.
III.
We call on those who direct
the nation, from the three state powers, to join with the [call to] “Enough
already! With continuing to egotistically seek the good of themselves,
their families, their parties, in order to go in a better direction in the
pursuit of the common good, of a population which is tired of their indolence,
their lack of honesty, and their disdain.
IV.
We equally ask, recognizing
their rights and duties, the organizations confronting the authorities and the
authorities themselves, to seek true solutions in a dialogue that is real and
not faked, since in a country with an economy as precarious as ours is, these
confrontations considerably affect everyone.
V.
May the Holy Spirit, whose living
presence in the world we have celebrated recently on [the feast of] Pentecost,
illuminate us to find the urgent solutions which we need. “Christ is alive and
he wants us alive!”
Valle de los Ángeles, Department Francisco Morazón, June 14,
2019
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