Tabernacle and Consecrated Hosts Stolen from Virgen del Mar Parish in Madrid
The tabernacle of the Chapel was stolen from the Virgen del Mar parish in Madrid on October 26th in the San Blas neighborhood. The perpetrators also destroyed another tabernacle and took the consecrated Hosts, as the parish published on their Facebook page. The parish priest, Enrique Abánades García, told journalists that the crime has been reported to the police, and he calls the community to grow in love of Christ's blessed sacrament.
On their Facebook page they posted: "A fact like this, fills us with pain and sadness, we feel that we have been "violated" by entering our home. But Jesus teaches us with these the three things that we can feel: fear, sadness, anger. Fear that something else might happen to us or that it might happen again. Sadness, because they have taken the Lord away, and we do not know what they will do with him. And rage, because they have given us a strong blow as a Community and as a Church. (...)
Let us ask Jesus today to evangelize our hearts. Pray for the Community of Our Virgen del Mar and for those who have wounded us in this way, that they may encounter God's merciful embrace and be converted to good."
The Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, Carlos Osoro, has expressed his pain, his prayer and condemned the desecration, he will hold an atonement act in the temple on Wednesday, October 28.
Source: Hispanidad, Facebook
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