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Xalapa (Agenzia Fides) - "Mexico remains a deeply religious country, despite the hegemony of relativism that undermines religious values". This is how the statement of the press office of the Archdiocese of Xalapa Communications begins, sent to Agenzia Fides, which recalls that as the month of December reveals, in an emotional way, the Mexican people's religious character. However, throughout the year there is a constant spiritual movement around the holidays and religious traditions.
"The crisis has further accentuated the religious character of our people," writes Father Jose Juan Sanchez Jacome, office manager. "In these times people are seeking the Lord with more insistence. When human certainties begin to unravel, when the authorities betray the hopes of the people, when suffering is manifested in various ways, people return to God to ask for the strength and hope they need to move forward".
"The people turn to the Virgin of Guadalupe because they feel protected" the text continues, they also seek Saints with devotion, to express explicitly that in these times we need people like them, we need role models and answers here and now.
"Millions of Mexicans are moving in these days of December to the churches and shrines dedicated to Our Lady. This extraordinary spiritual movement that we see around the Virgin of Guadalupe, as well as showing the religious soul of the people of Mexico, confirms our desire: people aspiring to overcome injustice, poverty and violence".
To the Mother of Jesus, at the end of the text, we ask to help governments, for a conversion of the heart and to love the nation in a profound way, so that "with honesty and with all their talent, they are able to change the economic, political, educational and social structures that cause poverty, unemployment and insecurity that damage the dignity of Mexicans". (CE) (Agenzia Fides 17/12/2011)
