Two things have repeated in the last four years at least in meetings of advice, commissions, assemblies and meetings of all kinds between priests, consecrated and laity: Personally I believe that Pope Francis will never give up and will never return to Argentina, his native country and homeland of his loves.
Giving up for him does not mean abdicating as a sign of saying “until here” how much Pedro’s ministry to the last circumstances. Something like the oldest have seen in San Juan Paul II bent by fatigue and disease but with conviction, as Saint Paul states, that the power of God triumphs in the weakness of the flesh.
Francisco is going to lead his life as a successor of Pedro until he can no more, not as a sign of weakness of command or weakness of political, spiritual-pastoral and socio-economic leadership, but as a pristine manifestation and preclaim that the great work of salvation and redemption in history does not come from the hand of the fierce human will as of the closeness, tenderness and mercy of God. It will be one of the potatoes of “I don’t give more” To make it clear that the only important thing in the conduct of the Church is the power of the Holy Spirit and not the more or less creative inventiveness of human genius.
Francisco will also be the crucified Pope in the hands of pain, disease, suffering and old age. Nothing of which he is alien to him and that is why he is no stranger to God. I firmly believe that as a corollary of his life, Francisco wants to show that if his papacy has “been successful” (with the problematic of this word) it is not because of him as for God’s will.
Francisco cannot give up, not because what guides him is a great spirit of struggle and selfishness, but what he wants is to reveal, not with words but with his concrete and suffering life, it is that if there is anything for which to thank, you have to thank God.
It is not necessary that the Pope can walk well, have the two lungs in full, not to specify oxygen or a blood transfusion. The Pope will always be Pope because he manifests God’s tenderness. Francisco’s almost twelve years are clear testimony of all this.
In the same way and for similar reasons, he never returned to his country: Neither dead nor in life. Although weigh and hurts us. Although I think it weighs us and hurts more for us, our pride and a false self -love than for him.
Having returned to your country would have meant above all things betraying their most human, Christian and Jesuit convictions.
I was always impacted by the testimony of a Jesuit – I think he was Uruguayan – that because of complaints with his religious community and to the manner of government that was carried out in his region, he wanted to travel to Rome to visit the company’s general preposition. He never received it under the pretext that the religious in question had his provincial father and had first anything to talk to him. Well. This is Francisco. He believes that he does not have to have come to Argentina because we have not who can interpret it but free and cheerful spirits that are nothing more than living witnesses of his Petrino Ministry. We have tired of listening to hermeneutics from Pope Francis. This is different. They are people and spaces, they are headlights that make us discover that no matter how much it is in Rome, Francisco never left.
Where can we find Pope Francis?
In other words, if one wants to meet the Pope, he doesn’t have to go to Rome. You have to go for example to Villa 21-24 de Barracas and the parish Virgen de los Milagros de Caacupé or Villa Soldati or Villa 31 to unfairly name some spaces. You have to go to Pompeii and let yourself be reconciled by the Cardinal Dri Go to Córdoba to see the work that encourages the Father Oberlin.
If one wants to meet the Pope, he can sit at the tables of the dining rooms of The killing and completely the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. You have to participate in Nights of Charitywhether in Plaza de Mayo, in another square, on the street, on the sidewalks or the ranches, where you meet crowds in street and marginalization.
You have to sit down to listen to the life of kids and kids in a Neighborhood centeror a farm of Home of Christ. You have to go to one of the pilgrimages to Luján, Itatí, El Milagro, San Lorenzoin a place of the southern Patagonia or the so punished Norte Argentino or accompany some seminarian boys with the dream of Peregrinar de Luján To Sumampa.
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If one wants to meet the Pope, he can also approach those spaces where life is received as it comes, there are showers, breakfast, comprehensive accompaniment to human development in his very numerous facets, or contemplate schools and schools that are true educational communities where the Encounter culture In the passion to educate. There is Pope Francis.
If one wants to listen to Francisco, he has to listen to “his generals” and not his interpreters: García Cuerva in Buenos Aires, El Gordo Colombo in Mendoza, Cardinal Bokalic in the Primada Santiago del Estero, the Matanzeros and Villero Cures and Bishopssys of infinite neighborhoods and settlements throughout our homeland, to Ojea in San Isidro, to Carrara in La Plata, to Fernández in Jujuy, to Lozano in Cuyo, to Cacho in Quilmes Ya Maxi in Avellaneda-Lanúsor its main interlocutors: Lugones, Giobando and Cardinal Ángel Sixto Rossiall of them Jesuits like him.
All these spaces, communities, priests and bishops are not interpreters. No no. They are his alfiles. They are the firm and strong testimony not only that Francisco never left but that his teaching is more in force than ever. Do you want to listen to Francisco? Listen to the echo of your ministry in the town that knew how to listen and how it does with the Gospel, makes meat and blood its teaching. Many times I get the idea of an imaginary dialogue with him: “Do you want me to return to the country? Nah. Listen to them. Be campaign hospital; I prefer a wounded church in the street and not in the sacristy. ”
Francisco will not give up. And he will never return to his homeland. Simply because those who have stayed, as you read and I writing, we know how to live as he taught us.
I wrote the P. Castellani In the background in one of the editions of his shirts something like this in reference to the brutality of some birds over others: “As beautiful that we may seem the song of the bird, the only task we must ensure is that its song lasts more than your life.” Well. The same with Francisco.
Pastor of the Sacred Heart in Barracas. Vice President of Cáritas Buenos Aires.
Source: Ambito
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