MADRID, 18 May. 16 / 4:05 pm ( ACI ) .- Cardinal Antonio Canizares, Archbishop of Valencia in Spain, has asked that the collections of Masses held during the feast of Corpus Christi on 29 May be fully intended to earthquake victims in Ecuador recorded last April.
in a letter to the archdiocese, the cardinal announced that the collection of Corpus Christi, traditionally intended a diocesan Caritas, “this year will be dedicated entirely to meet the needs arising from the earthquake in Ecuador”
so the archbishop asked the faithful who were especially generous “with our brothers in Ecuador. it is a duty of charity that claims compliance to celebrate the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, the Eucharist, Sacrament of charity Day brotherly Love “.
In this sense, the Archbishop said he was “fully convinced that will not disappoint even the Lord who commands us to love one another as` I have amado’, or our Ecuadorian brothers or which corresponds to our diocese of Valencia in this Holy Year of the Chalice of Mercy “.
thus the cardinal intends to maintain the aid has already been sent to this country from Spain to prevent reconstruction needs forget.
so states that “misery and need are there, they remain very much alive and bleeding; the demand for assistance and appeal to our consciences for us to exercise charity as it should, still crying. ”
The earthquake of 7.8 degrees on the Richter scale, took place on April 16 and left more than 600 dead, 1,700 missing and more than 4,500 wounded, and numerous million in damages .
Its epicenter was found in the coastal area between the towns of Muisne and Pedernales, about 10 kilometers deep
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