Month: July 2019

Cardinal Jaime Ortega, clad in his ecclesiastical attire, was veiled in Havana Cathedral for three days. After the Mass of exequias, the coffin was led to the Pantheon of Bishops, in the Necropolis of Columbus. […]

At the present-body mass he officiated on the morning of July 28, Father Yosvani Carvajal Sureda, parish priest of Havana Cathedral and rector of the Padre Félix Varela Cultural Center, conmemored his nineteenth years of priestly ordination, which he received by laying on the hands of the late Cardinal Jaime Ortega. […]

The funeral masses for the death of Cardinal Jaime Ortega continued on the morning of this Sunday, July 28 with that presided over by Msgr. Ramón Suárez Polcari, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Havana. […]

At the last Mass of the second day of funeral honors dedicated to Cardinal Jaime Ortega, Msgr. Alvaro Julio Beyra Luarca emphasized the trust that Christians must have in God’s help and recommended following the example of the late cardinal. […]

The dear Dominican priest Manuel Uña, who for fifteen years was the confessor of Cardinal Jaime Ortega […]

The Archbishop of Camaguey, Archbishop Wilfredo Pino, stood out in his homily before the corpse of Cardinal Jaime Ortega that Jesus Christ died to overcome death. […]

Monsignor Juan de Dios Hernández Ruiz excelled in his homily before the body of Cardinal Jaime Ortega the perishable of human ideologies before the eternity of God. […]

The representative of the Holy See emphasized the privilege of the Cuban prelated to receive three Pontiffs as archbishop and cardinal: St. John Paul II in 1998, Benedict XVI in 2012 and, more recently, in 2015, Pope Francis. […]

Archbishop Emilio Aranguren, Bishop of Holguin and President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba, presided over the most recent mass of the present body of Cardinal Jaime Ortega in the S.M.I. Cathedral of Havana. […]

Thank you Monsignor Jaime, for everything and therefore, but especially for being a man of word, respect, fidelity, thank you because today you will be interceding for this people who want to remain faithful to God in the midst of their sufferings and struggles […]