The Episcopal Pastoral Dimension on Human Mobility, in communion with the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM), brought to this space of ecclesial discernment that brought together more than 100 pastoral agents, among them, representatives of the 64 Houses of the Migrants and Accommodations of the country, diocesan pastoral care teams on human mobility, religious congregations, allied institutions and persons committed to the defense of human dignity in the pastoral care of human mobility.
This meeting was framed in the Jubilee Year of Hope and in the synodal process that the Church has experienced “recognizing migrants and refugees as missionaries of hope who appeal to us from their ways of pain, faith and resilience.”
In his intervention, Card. Fabio Baggio was inspired by the message of Pope Leo XIV for the World Day of the Migrants and Refugees 2025 and encouraged the participants to restore hope, to strengthen the motivations behind the service that they lend, to invert the information and the formation of migrants and pastoral agents; and to live with confidence and courage the prophetic dimension of the Church today.
For his part, Mons. Eugenio Lira Rugarcía, Bishop of Matamoros-Reynosa and Responsible for the Episcopal Pastoral Dimension of Human Mobility, invited those present to continue walking together in the mission that God has confided to all the baptized, illuminated by his Word, by the liturgy, by prayer and by service to the neighbor, having as a guide the Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te of Pope Leo XIV and the Global Pastoral Project of the Mexican Episcopal Conference, encouraged by the 2000 Redeemer Event of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the 500 years of the Meeting of St. Mary of Guadalupe.
The meeting had as a general objective the “animation of pastoral agents, fed by the Word of God, the relation with the Holy Spirit and the example of Mary” and “maintaining the commitment in the flow of migrants, refugees, tourism, prevention of human trafficking, apostolate of the sea and international students.”
The daily celebration of the Eucharist was the center of this Meeting. Then, after having listened to the Lord, the pastoral agents had the opportunity to listen to each other, dialogue, live and share together in order to discern together two fundamental questions: What does the Holy Spirit desire of the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility in Mexico? How to respond, as Church, to the cry of those who migrate with faith, pain and hope?
In the concluding Mass of the 23rd National Pastoral Meeting for Human Mobility, the agents were encouraged to not fall into the mundane attitudes of egoism, negativity, protagonism or polarization, but rather to maintain themselves on the “terraza” of faith, hope and love.
