They planted an olive tree and prayed in front of the Supreme Court: “Peace is the fruit of Justice”

United and crying out to God in the public space. The goal is peace. From different religions and in different languages: Hebrew, Arabic, and Spanish, they cried out for peace and planted an olive tree, this Monday the 2nd, starting at 2 p.m., in Plaza Lavalle, in downtown Buenos Aires.

Imitating the example of Jorge Mario Bergogliothen archbishop of Buenos Aires, 24 years ago planted an olive tree for peace with an imam and a rabbi, in Plaza de Mayo, in front of the Casa Rosada, as the national government house is known.

From the plaza (between Tucumán, Talcahuano, Lavalle and Libertad streets) Lavalle in front of the headquarters of the highest Argentine court, the Supreme Court, the ecumenicals for peace prayed accompanied by the judicial union, who joined the call of the Pope Francis for peace in this difficult time when wars are proliferating.

The catechist and former Secretary of State for works in the towns, Fernanda Miñocalled for “unity in peace as a sign of love and not falling into divisions.”

Claudio “Pajarito” Cruces, evangelical pastor, reflected on the fact that “peace is the fruit of justice” and asked God for blessings.

The rabbi Damián Karo remembered that “The olive tree of the biblical myth is the dove that returns to Noah’s Ark with a twig from the tree as a sign that the waters have subsided and represents the symbol of peace”. Then Karo in Hebrew and translating his words preached with the axis “in peace, which is the justice of love for all humanity.”

While the Muslim layman, Alexander Solomonin Arabic he asked God and highlighted Pope Francis “as a guide where we are all brothers as he says in his encyclical ‘fratelli tutti’” and accompanied “what was said by the rabbi and the evangelical pastor about the common good.”

For his part, the village priest, Ignacio Bagattinipointed to the culture of encounter “go to what unites us” and asked to “return to Carlos Múgica, a village priest martyred 50 years ago, who told us that having faith is loving your brother.”

The Secretary of Human Rights of the CGT and leader of judicial workers, Julio Piumatoexplained that the olive tree was placed “in an emblematic place, next to a plaque in tribute to the martyred judicial workers of the last military dictatorship” and asked to move forward “with the message of Pope Francis, which is peace.”

Before planting the olive treeMaia Volcovinskydeputy judicial and human rights officer of the CGT, read in unison “make me an instrument of your peace.”

Then the judicial workers, together with priest Bagattini with his beach bicycle, continued on foot to 1818 Perón Street, to the monthly mass in the oratory of the Union Judicial Employees of the Nation (UEJN) union. “We prepare for Christmas, it is Advent time, when the prince of peace is born. Just what we have been asking for in the square in front of the courts. That peace that for God is in our hearts. “That is our inner manger,” said the Father “Nacho”in the Martín de Porres oratory (patron of social justice) where he thanked the judicial workers for their presence in Villa 31, today called the Múgica neighborhood.