The parish priest of the mercedes church, frankie rodriguezconsidered this Wednesday that Dominican society has to be reviewed, especially the familiesbefore the frequent cases of violence and crime who lives in the country
He affirmed that the basis of many of the problems that society faces today has to do with the education that is being given to children, their teachers and the people who care for them when they are born. parents they work.
“I feel that we have to do an examination of conscience and this is not a government thing, it is a family thing. The traffic problem is not that there are many cars, it is recklessness; The problem with garbage is not that it is not collected, it is that we are badly educated; The water problem is that many times we are not aware and we leave the pen open, we have to review ourselves in all this, because in many homes there is no training or discipline at home”.
He assured that when society have good and healthy families, then there will be a society, an educated people.
The religious was interviewed after the celebration of the mass on the occasion of the Ash Wednesday at the Nuestra Señora de Las Mercedes church in the Colonial City, in the National District, which was attended by dozens of Catholics who received the mark of the cross on their foreheads.
The different churches held celebrations at particular times.
He Ash Wednesday It is the beginning of Lent for the Catholic faithful.