Can we take some of these situations the people?
Because guilds are also Church. "It would be suicidal folly if a bishop stands with his back to the guilds, which offer potential formidable religious and evangelical. I appreciate and love the brotherhood, and precisely because I want, I want the best for them. " The speaker is the current archbishop of Seville, Bishop Juan Jose Asenjo.
No doubt the great role that guilds have in today's society, with important charitable work, attracting devoted to religious life, integration of youth in the most diverse cultural and educational activities ... However, the relationship between guilds and the Church should not be collaborative, or even coexistence, but total and complete integration to pursue a common goal.
However, it is no secret that in the case of Ciudad Real, there have been several in recent years the chapters if not direct conflict, then at least discrepancy not always get to see the light (the bishopric usually maintains total discretion and guilds prefer to do). Case in any event, Ciudad Real is a very small town and in the end everything is known.
During visits programadas con motivo del XXII Encuentro Nacional de Cofradías Penitenciales, que tuvo lugar en septiembre de 2009, el párroco de Santiago explicó a los visitantes que dicho templo es sede de cuatro hermandades. Lo curioso es que, sin venir a cuento y sin que ese grupo de personas venidas de los más diversos puntos de la geografía nacional tuvieran por qué estar al tanto de nada, el párroco se encargó de matizar que la relación con esas cuatro corporaciones era “muy buena”, y añadió: “al contrario de lo que os hayan podido decir”.
Y es que es allí, en Santiago, donde encontramos una de las primeras acciones de la Iglesia que empezaron a dificultar la vida normal de guilds. A mid 80's it was decided to wall up the door that steps out of the parish on the evening of Holy Thursday. The result is that today the brotherhoods of Pilate, Christ of the charity and leaving the guardapasos Dolorosa, while the Lord's Supper do so from a makeshift tent in the Rector of the UCLM.
The case of the Brotherhood of the Holy Supper is paradigmatic, as it remains headquartered canonical Santiago, but the visitor does not find a single signal or find it at any time of year. And, while the mystery of the Supper is in the diocese, Our Lady of Holy Name is worshiped at the Convent of the Sisters of Cross. No sign, therefore, the sacrament in Santiago. This painful matches in this convent with the Virgin of the Passion, of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, which is based in the Parish of Nuestra Señora del Prado (Merced).
not the only cases. Understandably, many guilds have literally scattered to their images by the most unexpected headlines around the city, instead of being in their own temples. Without leaving Santiago, the Brotherhood of Charity of Christ to this file only in the parish. The Virgin and San Juan as part of the mystery are not worship, while the Virgin of the Star, not having apparently fit in the church, remains in exile in the chapel of the funeral of Pebble Road.
In San Pedro there are similar cases. La Hermandad de la Soledad brotherhood remains in his hometown district of Los Angeles at Our Lady of Bitterness, San Juan and Magdalena, the Brotherhood of Forgiveness and Waters, whose owner presides over Christ's altar, is in Our Lady of Calvary in the convent near the Plaza de San Francisco, for its part, the Virgin of Silent Suffering of surprises after a glass pedestrian avenue in the heart of Pius XII.
really difficult for a devotee is praying before the image of the Brotherhood of Prayer in the Garden, located in the ermita de Alarcos, lo que elimina una de las claves de la religiosidad popular, como es la cercanía a las imágenes. Y tampoco en San Pedro hay huella alguna de las cofradías de Jesús Caído y el Encuentro.
Más suerte tuvo la Hermandad de las Palmas, que después de muchos años con el Señor de la Entrada en Jerusalén escondido en el guardapasos, ha conseguido que se le dé culto en la iglesia de San Ignacio de Loyola. Y otro caso difícil de comprender es el de la Hermandad del Prendimiento. Sus titulares, Jesús Cautivo y la Virgen de la Salud, están en las dependencias de su Parroquia de los Ángeles, sí; pero dentro de una pequeña habitación, dado que el párroco no allowed to be visible in the temple itself. Sometimes it seems that the pictures bother ...
Permits not granted
Moreover, there have been several cases in which the brotherhoods have been proposed and the Diocese has provided. And the provision has been mainly negative. For example, several fraternities that have asked to station penance in the cathedral, reaching into the steps in the first temple of the city, as in Seville and Jerez de la Frontera. The answer has always been "no." Therefore, many brethren particularly appreciated the historic nature of the steps of Hope, the Arrest, the Cristo de la Buena Death and the Virgen del Consuelo in the Cathedral on the occasion of the extraordinary output of the National Meeting of Brotherhoods.
Precisely a year before the Brotherhood of the Flagellation celebrating the founding anniversary XXV. Within the program of events planned by the brotherhood of Holy Wednesday was intended to include an extraordinary procession passing a canopy. The Bishop was not convenient and cut at a stroke the aspirations of sisterhood.
More recently, when the Brotherhood of the Coronation Holy Thursday decided to leave and find another day procession, the first option was on Easter Monday, a day which is not currently in any guild Ciudad Real on the street. Again, it was white smoke. The corporation of Mercy had to change his mind and move to Palm Sunday, coinciding in time with the Brotherhood of Arrest. In this case, it was argued that Monday is the day that takes place on the Via Crucis Penitential organized by the Royal Town Arciprestazgo with the Silent Brotherhood. Put another way: two guilds can agree on the street at the same time, but not a brotherhood with a Via Crucis, in any case, be held at any other time of Lent.
A new chapter in this series of mishaps took place before last Christmas. A group of young brothers raised the organization of a nativity scene combining images from different guilds of the city. The project, well studied and thought, was to use even for dress and furnishings of the fraternities to form several scenes like the Nativity or the Annunciation to the shepherds.
The brothers proposed the installation of the Nativity in the exhibition hall of the Bishop, but once again the doors closed. The Vicar General, Miguel Esparza, did not consent, at least for Christmas 2010. Who knows if it will change their minds this year. The impression of some brethren before the negative is that Esparza was angered by becoming aware of project by this newspaper, instead of being the first to know directly from the mouth of the organizers. If so, the refusal was therefore a result of a tantrum.
And in another exhibition of religious art that took place in the past Lent, Esparza also had a strange reaction that victimize the Virgen de la Estrella, an image that was taken to the Bishop from the morgue. When preparing the assembly, Esparza saw the painful of the Brotherhood of Christ of Charity and asked them to carry them away, since it had not been warned that would be part of the sample. With them, the Virgin left Bishop's operations into its usual place.
Lent also the pastor of San Pedro won the steward of the Nazarene Brotherhood of the number of candles, fewer than it had in place, they should surround the image on the altar of the parish. The case is clear who is boss. Has been told this newspaper, that same pastor would not have received with much enthusiasm the result of the assembly of Brothers of Mercy in which was approved for a one-step future canopy.
The Dalmatian
And this year in the corps of acolytes could not see even one dalmatic after Bishop exhaustive ban its use in the fraternities. Although Spain, along with England, has the privilege granted by the Holy See for the use of these garments by the acolytes and ceriferarios censing, Ciudad Diocesan Church insists on interpreting the Deacons can only bring them, although in practice even they the dress.
The result is that after a number of years that some guilds have made significant financial burdens to have acolytes vestments for now will remain year after year on the shelves or in closets of the houses of brotherhood.
Also, last year also learned that the pastor of St. Peter had suggested to the elders of the Soledad Brothers and the Nazarene, who left office for matters concerning his personal life, but the fact is that finally there was no movement in any way.
front setback as the bishop if he has recourse to the Guild when it's needed. This happened, for example, last February, when images from seven fraternities more the mystery of the Risen One were part of an exhibition organized by the Diocese in a preparatory meeting for the World Youth Day to be held August in Madrid.
is not live, as said earlier, not even to work. Because guilds are not alien to the Church, but part of it. It is not understood, therefore, many rubs, many roadblocks. "It would be suicidal to turn your back to the brotherhoods," the archbishop of Seville. Sure, they also came to criticize the "lack of ecclesiology" that has been detected in some brethren. Every coin has two sides and really they can be analyzed from various perspectives. Which each draw their own conclusions.
Fernando Domínguez. The day of Ciudad Real.
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