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Lorca Plans celebrates the Exaltation of the Cross next to the caravaqueños]
The feast of the Exaltation of the True Cross, celebrated every 14 September, recalls the discovery of the Cross of Christ by Saint Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine 'The Great', in 320 AD. celebrates with joy in Caravaca and to the one that precedes a quinario, five days in which different priests preach in the Basilica Menor-Sanctuary of the True Cross.
The Bishop of Cartagena, Mons. José Manuel Lorca Planes, closed yesterday the Quinario on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, inviting the caravaqueños to take care of the pilgrims that arrive to this place;
and to put the center of the gaze on Christ, "the only one who can heal man".
"When God gives us the cross, it is to complete the healing passion of Christ, to heal the wounds caused by my sins, in me and in others," Bishop Lorca explained, encouraging those present to live faith in a coherent way: What comes to the heart is not the words, but the testimony of a person's life. "
He recalled that the relation of man to God does not enslave but is freedom, "because Christ has paid with his blood our freedom ... Let us come to Caravaca, let us sojourn to the Cross of Christ, to find the gift of knowing how to love as Christ loved us. "
During the celebration, the cross was imposed on the new brother brothers, about twenty-five, among whom was the president of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras.
At the end of the celebration, the procession of the Vera Cruz was carried out around the walls of the alcazar-sanctuary.
The Bishop of Cartagena and the parish priest of El Salvador, Jesús Aguilar, carried the Sacred Relic, accompanied by the Armaos Company of the True Cross (the guard of honor who guards the Lignum Crucis in their exits from the sanctuary) and hundreds of faithful.
Upon her return, once inside the walled enclosure, the patron blessed the fields, the city and all who dwell in it from the four cardinal points.
Five days of special worship at Vera Cruz
The Custodian of the Holy Land, the Franciscan Fr Francesco Patton, opened last Sunday the Quinario de la Vera Cruz.
His predecessor, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, gave the Cofradía de la Vera Cruz, in 2006, a sliver of the Lignum Crucis, which was then added to those already inside the reliquary.
On 11 November, Bishop Javier Aguilar Mondéjar, pastor of El Salvador, Episcopal vicar for the Caravaca-Rio Mula Zone and Commissioner of the Jubilee Year 2017, presided. On the feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary, on the 12th, of the Basilica Minor Shrine, Emilio Andrés Sánchez Espín, who presided over the celebration.
The 13th was the Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Bishop Julián Barrio, who recalled that the cross is not a sign of death but of life, "not of infamy and defeat but of salvation and victory, not of masochism but of love.
We remember how where death originated, there life resurfaced. "
Source: Obispado de Cartagena
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