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Catechesis: 6. Jacob’s Prayer
Word New reproduces Catechesis number six, dedicated to the theme of prayer. It was released at the General Audience on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. We invite you to share it from our domestic Church.
Year: 2020
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Today and Tomorrow of a Pandemic (11)
Cuban narrator, essayist and critic Margarita Mateo finds the idea of returning to what many already call new normalcy unpleasant. He fears that this new normality will be very similar to the previous one and reproduce the same patterns. For the university professor, this would lead us to “continue to live in a world where values continue to prevail that far from contributing to the improvement of the human species, tend to promote the worst of it, including epidemic idiocy and attachment to the banal”.
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Today and Tomorrow of a Pandemic (10)
For Neife Maria Rigau Chiong, a young Habanera Catholic, these months of confinement have known her for retirement. Although initially, they were initially painted lost, he could later see them as an opportunity. “As at all times,” he says, “in this period I have also been comforted to know myself accompanied by God; it is one of the certainties that we must always keep within us, because it gives us the strength we need to act or the patience we need to wait. That certainty is Christian hope.”
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Today and Tomorrow of a Pandemic (9)
As a pressing measure of mental health before #Covid 19, the psychologist, critic and journalist, Jesús Dueñas Becerra, advises avoiding, at all costs, the place in our psychs of fear, anxiety, anguish and stress. “The word of order,” he says, “is not fear, let alone panic, but the responsibility to take care of ourselves and each other.”
RELIGION
Solemnity of the Holy Trinity
The Word is Jesus Christ, the eternal Word of the Father, through whom it has been revealed and spoken to us in the fullness of time, the Logos before all and embodied in the virginal bosom of Mary. In the Church every Sunday the Word is proclaimed in the celebration of the Eucharist as a light that illuminates the world and every human being. With the desire to make this Word closer, from the suggestion of our Archbishop Cardinal Juan de la Caridad, we begin this new section in #Palabra New Digital. We intend to facilitate the reading in private or as a family of the readings of each Sunday or public holiday, which will lead us to personal or community prayer, to the contemplation of the mystery and to the incarnate and committed meditation of its contents, that is, to the encounter with Christ, the Word, which guides our steps on the path of life.
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Celebrate Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity on the 60th Anniversary of its Founding
This June 5, 2020, the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity celebrates the 60th anniversary of its founding. On the same date, but from 1960, the day of Pentecost, the then Secretariat for the Promotion of Christian Unity was created by St. John XXIII with the “Motu proprio Superno dei Nutu”.
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Today and Tomorrow of a Pandemic (8)
For Sister Nadieska Almeida, Daughter of Charity, this has been a time of deep encounter with herself and with God, in a different way. Communities that have older members have been one of their great concerns, for if there is one thing she has learned in her life as Daughter of Charity, it is respect for them. “Today it is our turn to step up and protect them as much as we can and with the resources we have.”
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From the classic poster, a contemporary proposal in Covid-19 times
Iván Alejando Batista, designer of Palabra Nueva, offers details about the project “Film Posters in Covid’s Time”. The proposal, which can be seen on digital platforms, rescues the best of Cuban signage of all time to convey a message of public good and prevent the spread of the Covid-19.
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Today and Tomorrow of a Pandemic (7)
Visual artist, curator, art critic and cultural promoter, Sandra Ceballos Obaya, believes it is healthy to take advantage of isolation to live together for a while in and learn to eliminate that pathological anxiety of interacting and competing with society. “When we learn this, he says, there will be a terrible obsession with fighting to be superior to the Other.”
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Today and Tomorrow of a Pandemic (6)
Great friend of #Cuba, the hospitable priest Simon Azpiroz, expresses from Ecuador his concern about how the day after the global health emergency will be based. For this Spanish missionary, there will be many socio-economic and cultural challenges in the future #pospandemia. However, he confesses, “guidelines will have to be proposed to confront them and, as #Francisco says, a great citizen ‘movement’ will have to be fostered that breaks with ‘fixed or expired structures’ to rebuild society from ‘the necessary antibodies of justice, charity and solidarity’, in favour of ‘sustainable and integral development’ to protect humanity.”