“We strongly repudiate this act and we share the bewilderment and pain of those who have real ties to the chapel and that of the parish community of Larroque,” the prelate said.
“The Pehuajó chapel is a center of worship for the believing families who live in the area and the object of the annual pilgrimage in which a large number of faithful participate and which this year celebrates its 50th edition,” he noted.
Zordán invited the faithful to perform penitential gestures and acts “to join together in solidarity to make reparation for the offense caused to God our Lord and to the Blessed Virgin Mary.” He also called for prayers for the aggressors.
Speaking with the El Once portal, Father Carlos Stadler, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, said: “They came in to do damage. Nothing was stolen.”
“They didn’t enter to steal, because they moved a bronze tabernacle and didn’t take it away,” he pointed out. “In addition, they were prepared, because they brought a container of fuel.”
Stadler attributed the attack to “purely spiritual issues, because all the things that they wanted to break are placed in spiritual order.”