In a strong gesture, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge García Cuerva, washed his feet to twelve retirees in a populous Buenos Aires church imitating what Jesus did with the twelve apostles in the last dinner, clarified that he did it for affection, recognition and accompaniment to the elderly and “not for political opportunism”, while asking them to be paid “a dignified retirement.” The traditional retirement. Cuerva did it in the Immaculate Parish Conception of Villa Soldati before numerous faithful, the occasion cited Pope Francis when he says that “a people who forget their roots has no future” and stressed that “we have to take care of our roots that with our grandparents and retirees.” As a church, we want them to have a dignified life, we want them to have a worthy retirement, we want them to also be recognized as those who built our homeland before us. Pibes, the life of our young people, the life of families, the life of those who suffer. “We remember that” at the table of Jesus everyone has a place; Jesus does not leave out those who think differently; Jesus does not leave out those of other parties; Jesus does not leave out those who are very sinners; On the contrary, at the table of Jesus we are all brothers. ”“ And for that reason, he says, he seems nice today that we remember Jesus’ last dinner, imagine that our homeland, imagine that our community, that our neighborhood, that our Church of Buenos Aires also has to be as a great table in which everyone takes place. A table in which we can look in the eye and discover that we are brothers beyond our differences. “” I always say that I like the round tables because in the round tables when someone is missing we real Punta. “” I believe that our table, as a country, as a community, as a neighborhood, has to be a round table so that if someone needs us to realize and no one can miss, “he said. And he completed:” Today we are going to wash our feet to our grandparents, our retirees, they also have to sit at everyone’s table, they also have to have a place. “As in that last dinner the disciples, all very different, all very different, all very different had a place. That first, ”he concluded.
