Extract Alberto Ezcurra Homily of May 25, 1987, delivered in San Rafael, Mendoza in Parish of Our Lady of Luján.
"Patriotic Sermons," Editorial Cruz and Fierro.
(...) "We have inherited the blood and that work. We have inherited responsibility. Because the country is well, the country is a legacy we receive from our parents and grandparents and is a legacy we must pass on to our children and our grandchildren and so have no right to let that legacy is scattering. We can not, we have no right to pass on to our children and our grandchildren a colony of any imperialist rather than a sovereign homeland. We have no right to pass that we did Belgrano flag with the colors of the robe of the Virgin around the color red with blood and hatred, or that flag that changes its color to become stars and stripes. We have no right to betray our heritage, to leave and so, when so many concerns, when there is so much injustice and there are so many lies, when hungry and no job, when so much disappointment as there are so many hopes dashed by false speeches, lies, false promises, so we have to pray harder to give thanks to God for everything he gave to this country, and we must also note that our country pain Argentina is sick, that our country is deeply hurt and that we confront the pain and the disease homeland, we have no right to continue that policy of ostrich that buries its head in the sand to avoid seeing and saying "nothing happens here." We must be aware of pain, disease of the Fatherland. And because it has to be our love of the homeland, we implement a sensible complacency, not just a sentimental speech in the school, the parade and the flag is raised, but awareness of the reality of this country and this people. In this country that a colony but should not be. In this town you have to have those rights are taken away from fidelity to the heritage of which we are forgetting. born in this country who was born Catholic and Christian, born under the colors of the Virgin's mantle.
So today we celebrate this Mass lift our prayer in a particular way for the homeland. And we will continue celebrating especially at certain times, Masses for this intention. Masses for the Homeland. For the Lord will remember us. For the Lord gives us each of us as Catholics and as Christians Argentine force to fulfill our duty to this country, whatever our place, from the most humble, family, neighborhood to the top jobs levels of responsibility in the Church, unionism, politics, wherever you are in, we know our duty, we know put above the interests of all the common good of the country. The country is like a ship that is moving towards a port and what if a ship, rather than agree to direct it all towards the port that has to come unifying the effort and all work above personal likes and dislikes, above petty disagreements and, what happens if each gets to work on your own? That ship is sinking, the ship did not come ashore. It is a company of all, because God wanted us to be born here, and we were not born here by chance in this moment in history is called the second half of the twentieth century, and we were not born by chance in this corner of the world called the Argentina. We were born here because God wanted it that way. And when the providence of God wanted to give birth on this soil, in this country and at this time, also gave us a calling, a mission he gave us and gave us a destination as Christian men. And then we must ask God to give us strength to reach that destination. So repeat as we can Masses for the Homeland. Think
, to pray for the sick country, in those Masses celebrated in Poland that contemporary martyr was Father Jerzy Popieluszko, where they gathered around the Altar and before the image of the Virgin, all the pain but also all Faith Hope and all of a subjugated people and a persecuted people. And we think that the Father Popieluszko to celebrate those Masses, and pray for the fatherland and to decipher the truth about esa Patria que quería seguir siendo libre y cristiana al mismo tiempo, eso le costó el secuestro, le costó la tortura, le costó la vida.
Estamos muy lejos del Padre Popieluszko, pero sería una gracia de Dios si el Señor, por un amor grande de la Patria y por señalar las llagas y los dolores de la Patria, y por elevar por esta Patria nuestra oración hacia el Cielo, quisiera un día concedernos la gracia del martirio. La gracia más grande que puede tener un cristiano y la que puede tener sobre todo un sacerdote. Pero aún cuando el Señor no nos conceda esa gracia, Él nos pide que seamos capaces de dar la vida por Él y por la Patria, en fidelidad a nuestro deber y en nuestro daily work. In fidelity to all those pequelas things the Lord asks of us in our daily lives.
May He grant us grace so to be faithful.
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