Monsignor Pedro Aguado Cuesta is officially since this Saturday, June 14, the new bishop of the diocese of Huesca. Hundreds of people have welcomed him and have come to the ordination and inauguration in the Holy Cathedral Church of Huesca.
The main order has been Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, Prefect Emeritus of Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life. They have acted as co-consagant bishops Monsignor Carlos Escribano Subías, who acts as a metropolitan archbishop of Saragossa, and Monsignor Vicente Jiménez Zamora, Archbishop Emeritus of Zaragoza and Apostolic Administrator of Huesca and Jaca during this period of vacant headquarters.
The celebration has begun in the Atrium of the Cathedral at 10.30 am, where the Reverend Father Pedro Aguado Cuesta has been received by the Cathedral Cabildo. The cardinal has presented the new bishop there before the clergy and the gathered people, pronouncing the words: “I present to whom you will now be your pastor and preside over the most solemn celebrations in this Holy Cathedral Church: Monsignor Father Pedro Aguado Cuesta.”
The Dean of the Cathedral, the Reverend Juan Carlos Barón, and members of the Cathedral Cabildo has offered him the lignum crucis to kiss him and has given to the elected bishop the swab with blessed water so that he suffers himself and those present.
Then, the new bishop has addressed the chapel of the Holy Christ of the Miracles, where he has dedicated a moment of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament and the image so venerated by the Oscenses. From there, it has been covered for the beginning of the Eucharist inside the Diocesan Museum of Huesca.
The Reverend Father Pedro Aguado Cuesta has accompanied at the beginning of the ceremony by Reverend Nicolás López Congosto, Vicar General of the Diocese of Huesca, and the Pialypheic Father Miguel Ángel Asiain García, who was the new bishop’s novice teacher.
In the presbytery a reliquary has been placed with the sandals that belonged to San José de Calasanz, the founder of the Escolapios, a congregation to which our new bishop belongs. The founder’s sandals are part of the pontifical shield, where Don Pedro himself states that “worn out of so much walking, they are a symbol of delivery to the mission, which I want to continue marking my walk.” Also, the images of San Lorenzo, San Vicente, San Orencio and Santa Patience.
LITURGY
The Liturgy of the Word has contained the proclamation of a text by the prophet Isaiah and the second letter from St. Paul to Timothy, focused on the prophetic and pastoral mission of the Bishop as a servant of the Gospel, Herald, teacher and guide of the people of God.
Monsignor Vicente Jiménez Zamora read at the beginning of the ceremony a homily in which he invited his brother Pedro to “insert yourself in this evangelizing groove, to have dreams and the realities; to which you inject into these lands and peoples of Aragon the strength of the spirit that recreates everything, and the sap dynamisms ”.
Monsignor Roman Walczak, first secretary of the Nunciature of the Holy See in Spain, he granted in the name of Pope Leo XIV his apostolic blessing to the new Bishop of Huesca and extended it to those who followed the celebration in “a moment of particular joy.” His mission is now “to continue the work of the good shepherd Jesus Christ, who calls us to prepare on earth a happy eternity in his abode.”
The central moment of the celebration has arrived with the Episcopal Planning Rite. After the reading of the appointment bull-him for the Chancellor-Secretary of the Bishopric, Patricia Palacios-, the elected bishop will pronounce his promises before the faithful and consecrating people. The ancient rule of the Holy Fathers establishes that whoever has been chosen by the episcopal order is, before the people, previously examined on their faith and their future ministry.
With those promises, the reverend Father Pedro Aguado Cuesta has pledged to keep the deposit of faith in full, faithfully announce the Gospel, remain in communion with the Pope and the bishops, obey the successor of Peter and exercise pastoral charity with the poor and in need.
Requests
The litanic plea has been carried out below – a specific direction that is carried out through a series of requests to God, Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary or the Saints, invoking them as intercessors – through the litany of the Saints, a sign of communion between the pilgrim Church and the Heavenly Church. The elected bishop has prostrated himself as a sign of humility and openness to the action of the Holy Spirit.
Cardinal João Braz de Aviz has transferred to those present the same message with which Pope Leo XIV went on the balcony of the Basilica of San Pedro and with peace as a backbone idea. He has asked the patterns of the two dioceses, San Lorenzo and Santa Orosia, “to intercede for Father Pedro and for all of us” on a date on which the Universal Church celebrates the solemnity of the Holy Trinity.
The song of the litanies, the bishop main ordering and the concelebrant bishops have imposed their hands on the head of the chosen and the prayer of ordination, invoking the effusion of the Holy Spirit and the gift of the Episcopal Ministry has been pronounced.
The ordination has continued with the explanatory rites: the anointing of the head with the Holy Crisma, the delivery of the book of the Gospels, the Ring, the Mithra and the pastoral staff, and finally the enthronement in the chair, sign of the authority of the Bishop as teacher and pastor of the particular Church.
With the intonation of the Hymn Te Deum, Father Pedro has traveled the ships of the cathedral providing his blessing to all the faithful. From the episcopal headquarters, the new Bishop of Huesca wanted to be “simple and close”: “Thank you, walking together and conditions”, have been the three aspects that you have addressed.
He has given thanks to God and has expressed that the phrase of Timothy he has chosen as episcopal motto (“I know who I have relied and I know that he has power to help me take the assignment that gives me”) is “of all.” With an affectionate greeting for his present family and the Escalapios brothers, the clergy and the faithful present in the temple, he has later alluded to the synodal idea of “walking together”: “I am not prepared for this or I have an established program. I am glad to be able to say it publicly” because in this way he has committed to “learn” and know the diocesan reality.
SINODAL IDEA
He added that “I deeply believe in the value of the Gospel message, the mission of the Church is to transmit it with a testimony and there is nothing more exciting. I believe in a simple, missionary and synodal church that does not think of itself; for all, welcoming and open to the entire world.” With San José de Calasanz he has learned to know and love “children, young people, the poor and the community.” It is, in short, a bishop “happy not to be prepared and convinced of what I have to learn.”
Reverend Father Pedro Aguado Cuesta becomes part of the Episcopal College, in communion with the Roman Pontiff. He will take possession of the Diocese of Jaca this Sunday, June 15 at 5:00 p.m. in the Jaca Cathedral.
