Bishop Mestre sent a message as part of the Ad Limina visit "Diario La Capitale de Mar del Plata

The "Ad limina tour" Rome must be carried out by the bishops every five years, but at that time it has not been done for ten years because of various factors, including the complications of dad Francisco.

Bishop Mestre sent his message after the first meeting of bishops with the Holy Father.

The meetings, which began last Sunday, will take place until tomorrow. In the case of the latter, the first group of Argentine bishops who make the pilgrimage to Rome, an opportunity for the pastor of each diocese to take stock.

This group includes prelates from the coastal and northeastern regions of our country.

Mestre addressed a greeting and a blessing to the faithful of the diocese: "This experience is very rich and profound, sometimes we are moved," he said.

"I want to make myself present these days in a special way by sharing Ad Limina's visit with the first group of Argentine bishops," he said. I clearly experience the unity, universality and catholicity of our Church, of faith to discover in the figure of Pope Francis, today our Peter, our Saint Peter, who presides the Catholic Church in charity and encourages us to evangelize. We also share with the brother bishops of the region of La Plata, northeast of Argentina and the coast, this first group is here in the Holy See ".

Bishop Mestre also declared that the experience "is positive and rewarding from the faith, in the places of worship that we visit: San Pedro, San Pablo Extramuros, Santa María la Mayor and the different places that speak to us deep roots the faith The experience is very rich in sharing among us, bishops, breakfasts, lunches and dinners, and especially times when we can pray together and share the Eucharist. "

On the other hand, he judged it "extremely interesting for me to undergo it for the first time and a year and a half after having been bishop of Mar del Plata, visiting and sharing with the organizations of the Holy See. of dialogue, of confrontation, of proposition, of listening: what the bishops see about the reality of our dioceses and, on the contrary, what each organism of the Holy See must tell us in a particular way ".