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Today, a few days after the concentration organized by civil society to demand the restoration of Santa Maria Maggiore, I believe that it is the least bad moment, propitious it will never be to the understanding of some, to publicly express what lies in my heart of a catholic, of a processionist, not a cofrade, and of a Cartagena, in relation to issues that concern our city, our church, our tradition and our Holy Week Brotherhoods.

Known is by appellant, since for seven hundred years it has happened, that since the excommunicated Bishop Magaz and his also excommunicated acolyte Sancho IV illegally moved the chair of the Bishop of Cartagena to the city of Murcia, based on a false papal bull and the alleged Berber incursions, have not or have stopped denouncing, for the part that touches us, this transfer and what it meant for the growth of one city and the abandonment of another by the ecclesiastical authorities, resulting in things as different as the creation of his University under the protection of the Church.

If everything had followed its legal course, it would have been created in Cartagena;

the construction of a concatedral while the original one was abandoned;

the construction of parochial churches throughout its municipal area, in front of the concentration of all the parishes of Cartagena in one, that of Santa María de Gracia, in order to avoid the bishop having to maintain more parishes in our city at the same time it collected the tithe of all the cofradias of artisans, fishermen or miners delivered for the maintenance of the Church.

And so, until the huertano paroxysm or until our days, which is the same.

I want to focus on one of the brotherhood councils that I was able to attend prior to last Holy Week.

As is mandatory, we begin by raising a prayer to the Most High, with encouragement and purpose to put all brother brothers in communion, so that from that union and the affection that the "brothers" should profess, the aforementioned meeting and the subsequent days where We all have to contribute the maximum in our respective positions for greater brilliance of our brotherhoods, but above all, for the greater Glory and Honor of Our Lord Jesus Christ, go on in the best of ways.

And so far so good, but God willing to write right with crooked lines, there that our beloved chaplain quotes some words of the infallible Holy Father, which, in a restrictive way, tells us that the Church is tradition.

I bit my tongue out of obligation, because even though it was the place, it was not the time to undertake this task.

I could bring to these lines such mundane issues as the systematic neglect by the ecclesiastical authorities of the maintenance of our parishes, whose pastors have long since taken to the streets to raise more tithes from the parishioners and prevent them from decimating the flow of 'La Carthaginensis', that's what our Bishopric was called from its creation.

So we see how some ask to have a bulrush with which to call mass or rapture, others to remove leaks, to clean facades or to be completely rebuilt as the case of the epicenter of Holy Week in Cartagena 'Santa Maria de Gracia ', or to rebuild facilities attached to the Basilica of La Caridad.

But I am going to park them for the moment to respond to an order to the Major, which is what all the princes of the Church have been doing as pastors in our unfortunate Diocese, except for an honorable exception, since it is Santa María de España, also known as Santa Maria 'La Mayor' to which they endeavor to envire the successive bishops, not finding hardly an accurate answer of those who by their positions should have reversed this situation centuries ago.

These are no other than the main leaders of our fraternities of passion and glory, that is, their Elder Brothers or better, my Elder Brothers, because that is what they are called and as such they are respected, against which only my brothers can be expected older people respect me, respect all their younger brothers and sisters and act as true supporters of their defenseless brothers on the one hand and, on the other, as champions so that the institutions that govern do not separate, or do so as little as possible, of the message of Christ.

See, I am not saying here of the message of the Church, since it is known that the Catholic Church is made up of men and as such imperfect, sinful and sometimes partisan.

And it is here when I link one of the many speeches of Pope Francis where, like other Holy Fathers, assert "ex cathedra" (without room for error) that the Church is tradition, and what advised the members of the Pontifical Institute Juan Paul II to be good pastors and good theologians in 2016: "Let us not forget that good theologians like good shepherds have the smell of the people, on the way and with their reflection they pour oil and wine on the wounds of men".

Because "Theology and Pastoral work go together", as it is "unthinkable a pastoral of the Church that does not make treasure of Revelation and Tradition".

Of course it is tradition.

I would miss more.

If not, we should replace the windows with video screens, the processions by serials that can be seen when and where we want from our mobile device and I will not give more ideas, not the devil ...

If the tradition has served to make all this socio-economic framework work as a stock exchange and the small investors called parishioners and brothers we have taken it for good, it is fair to ask that it take care of that tradition to who is its maximum exponent in our diocese of Cartagena, his Bishop.

And as the tradition of parishioners crosses publicly with the confrere during Lenten days and processions, it is just as well to ask those responsible for it to meditate, to intervene or come to annoy the clerical establishment to demand, yes, to demand Our Bishop, who is well enough to beg when we are the ones who contribute the tithe, to immediately begin the total restoration and opening to the cult of the Cathedral of the first bishop of Spain, which gave its primacy to Toledo so that the conjunction of Church and Crown born what we know today as Spain.

And do so under a warning of disobedience towards his figure if he does not do so, dressing this notice with the withdrawal of any invitation to go to the Diocese's headquarters to preside over any religious act, in addition to transferring with a loud bizarre the intrigue of the Holy Father, to that Pope Francis who is so unfriendly to princes even though they are princes of the Church and who so often cites tradition as the guiding thread of the revelation of the message of Christ in time.

What I am asking here for my Elder Brothers already happened in the year 1773, when the enlightened brothers of the moment did not consent that an exogenous bishop wanted to put an end to the brotherhoods and their work, criteria and autonomy, resulting in the refusal to remove that year the processional processions to the street, something that of motu proprio or with the impulse of superior instances, made the bishop bite his tongue in the subsequent occasions.

Today, unfortunately, and with the due respect and consideration that I have for our Elder Brothers, we are orphans of the care that Cartagena and its Catholic tradition deserve.

I, from here, I tell them that the reason for their position is not only to take parades to the street, that is done by many other institutions throughout the year.

They are to make public a profession of faith and the message of Christ, something that they seem to forget behind the curtain of submission to those who maintain this injustice and, therefore, are jointly responsible for what their younger brothers suffer, because of their fault, because of their fault, for his great fault.

Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena