The procession of Jesús Sacramentado, traditionally known as the “men’s procession”, this coming January 1st will be held inside the Managua Cathedral, because the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo maintains it is forbidden to carry out processions at the national level .
according to the newspaper The Pressthis orientation to carry out religious activities inside the temples, is extensive to all Catholic parishes in Nicaragua.
On the morning of this Thursday, December 29, at the end of the mass in the Metropolitan Cathedral, which Cardinal Leopoldo José Brenes presided over, the activities to be carried out this coming Sunday in Managua were announced.
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«In our Cathedral we have the following day on January 1: at 8 in the morning the Holy Eucharist, at 10 in the morning we will have a moment of Eucharistic adoration, a holy hour; at 11 o’clock the solemn Eucharist that the Archbishop presides over us, on the occasion of this day of prayer and at the end of the Eucharist we will have the procession with Jesus in the Sacrament, within the grounds of our Cathedral”, explained one of the priests, who accompanied to Cardinal Brenes at mass.
According to the announcement, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Managua also ordered that days of prayer for peace be held in all parishes, as has been done throughout this year.
For its part, the Diocese of Granada, this past December 27, released a statement confirming that the procession of the Blessed Sacrament will be inside the parish church.
For this day, the Diocese – chaired by Monsignor Jorge Solórzano – invited each of the Parishes under its jurisdiction to celebrate this day, which will begin with the morning Eucharist “and then exposing the Blessed Sacrament throughout the day”. , reads the letter.
They state that after the evening mass the procession with the Blessed Sacrament can be organized inside each parish temple “where we participate with a spirit of recollection and adoration”, however it does not detail whether there has been any type of restriction on the part of the Police to Express your faith in the streets.
La Prensa also revealed that all the bishops wrote to their clergy to give instructions that everything will be done within the parishes, but it is known that the instructions came from the Presidency, in charge of the dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
