The archbishop of Compostela, Archbishop Julian Barrio Barrio inaugurated a new edition of the Meeting of priests and religious of the Camino de Santiago on Monday. Following the opening of the meeting by the dean of the Cathedral of Santiago, Segundo Pérez López, Archbishop delivered an inaugural lecture entitled On the way to the Holy Year 2021 , which referred to the essentially religious and spiritual dimension of the next Jacobean appointment.
“The celebrations of Holy Years Compostelan” he said, “have a spiritual and pastoral cultural connotation well in the circumstances of ecclesial moment is celebrated. The Holy Year is an event of grace for the help of the full realization of the person with a dynamic anthropology and revitalizing and contextualized in socio-cultural-religious reality in which the person is moving. “
In his speech, Archbishop Barrio did not shirk indicate the difficulties that this implies spiritual challenge in today’s culture. “We are not it hidden,” he said, “the growing ethical strain in our societies, due to the weakening of the sense of personal and social sin and a progressive increase of relativism that is expressed in spiritual worldliness idolizing money, weakens the links between people and denatures family ties “.
Pero manifestó que “la santidad de una persona se mide con su caridad y por la dimensión social de la fe. Precisamente se convoca el Año Santo para cambiar las actitudes de las personas conforme al plan de Dios, favoreciendo su despertar religioso y espiritual como también modelar cristianamente las comunidades cristianas. El fortalecimiento de la esperanza en los bienes futuros animará la evangelización de la sociedad en consonancia con la rica tradición apostólica. La Iglesia ha de estar atenta a cuanto se mueve en la sociedad. En el actual cambio de época no se debe rehuir el riesgo de proponer juicios sobre nuestra sociedad”.
Archbishop went over recent years compostelanos saints and explained that “in the last two years of this millennium Santos stressed that the grace of the Holy Spirit is the beginning and the end of the Christian pilgrim life in faith and hope. It is the task of the next Holy Year 2021 to proclaim that the Christian pilgrim of faith and hope is immersed in the union of the Father, the Son and the Spirit and thus is brought to full completion. “
Follow Christ
Monsignor Barrio, after talking about the keys with which the pilgrim has to interpret the symphony of the road, stood at tracking the person of Christ the true meaning of the pilgrimage: “A true transformation of mentalities and attitudes of the Church doctrinal purity gives way to follow Jesus. Man, being-in-the-time, he has to go on pretending. The human condition corresponds pilgrim is homo viator. Thanks to Jesus ‘ answer to Thomas, the Christian pilgrim knows the way: ” I am the way, the truth and the life. No one goes to the Father except through me“(Jn 14.3 to 6). Christ has become our way, because it has become man, like us, because he himself has come our way. Christ and the path can not be separated. Jesus himself is the pilgrim who travels the road with us, guides us, illuminates our way, because He is the truth and leave us your life, through the resurrection is eternal and imperishable. The road is not any opinion to conduct our lives, but a person “.
guests
The meeting this year has been invited riojano priest Don Jesus Merino Morga, canon of the Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada. Merino discuss how to welcome in the parish, citing the work performed in calceatense Seo in which this year celebrate the Jubilee for the millennium of the birth of the saint.
On the second day a round table will be raised in Brother Federico Albini (OFM) Leon, Sr. Aurora (FDCs) of Carrión de los Condes, Sister Pilinchi Romero (RSCJ) of Santiago de Compostela and Father Daniel Fernandez ( SM) will present a panel Sahagún their experiences of welcoming pilgrims in their communities.
