Year: 2020

RELIGION

Start of the catechetical year 2020-2021

23 October, 2020 Webmáster 0
The Archdiocesan Catechesis Commission has reported that next Saturday, November 7, the Catechetical Year 2020-2021 will begin in Havana. In a letter to the parish priests, leaders of Christian communities, catechesis coordinators and catechists, they are reminded that by this beginning, which was impossible to resume on the usual date (after the Feast of Our Lady of Charity of Copper), the hygienic health measures established by the competent authorities must be fulfilled.

In addition, the misiva urges catechesis sessions to shorten the duration of meetings and conduct them in open, spacious and ventilated spaces, maintaining physical distance and the use of masks as main safety measures. It also recommends reducing the number of children per group (no more than eight) where possible and, if necessary, expanding the number of catechists.

“This would be an opportunity to invite young people, because we know that many of our catechists are elderly people, people at risk in the face of this pandemic, so we thought it would be highly advisable to ask for their cooperation,” the letter states.

Next we share the full message, signed by Father Eloy Ricardo Dominguez, Archdiocesan coordinator of Catechesis,

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SOCIETY

Love frees you from fear

22 October, 2020 Webmáster 0
According to The Cuban writer Eric Adrián Pérez González or Yitzjaq Aharon, a Sephardic Jew, selfishness has spawned humanity’s worst monsters. For the author of “La Vuelta”, an acute work that says truths that touch many nations, selfishness manifests itself in its most horrible form when it assumes power, for it completely loses its sanity and shatters human dignity. For this author, a Miami resident, the only liberating force is true love. “When you really love everything starts to make sense, you connect with that eternal energy and you feel complete, because you understand what your part is in that great puzzle of life,” he says.

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SOCIETY

Again, José Lezama Lima and the contents of the Catholic faith

20 October, 2020 Webmáster 0
With regard to the celebration of Cuban Culture Day this October 20th, the magazine Palabra Nueva proposes reading a text by Msgr. Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, who was, until his death, a member of our editorial board. About the writer José Lezama Lima and his Catholic being, goes the following article. With the conviction that the Lezamian theme will never be exhausted, for it is an inexhaustible mine, the author does not seek to canonize Lezama, but he does not demonize it either. He considered him as a person and admired him as the multifaceted writer he was. “And I do not exclude him from ecclesial communion, which lived with truth, but… in his own way!” he says.

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RELIGION

Allocution, Sunday, October 18, 2020

18 October, 2020 Webmáster 0
“Mission is a free and conscious response to God’s call, but we can perceive it only when we live a personal relationship of love with Jesus alive in his Church.” With this expression of Pope Francis, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana, recalled in his Sunday speech, the celebration on October 18 of World Mission Day. Over the centuries, and today, our Church continues to go everywhere, however difficult, announcing, teaching, baptizing, celebrating the sacraments, and practicing works of charity. The Habanero Archbishop insisted that we, as baptized, must also proclaim the gospel, but our mission is to make it present in our house. “Your husband’s best missionary is the wife, his wife’s best missionary, is the husband. The best missionary of his children is the father and also the mother. The mom and dad’s best missionaries are the children,” he said.

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RELIGION

XXIX Sunday of Ordinary Time

17 October, 2020 Webmáster 0
To give God what is god’s is to realize the essence of life. That He has created us as beings open to transcendence and fraternity, which He has created for us to love and be loved, and only by loving as He loves us, we are paying off the debt, we are fulfilling the righteousness of giving him back what He has given us first; divine and human love, towards Him and to our brothers and sisters, love incarnate and committed particularly to the less kind or loved.

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SOCIETY

From the dark path to the clear faith

16 October, 2020 Webmáster 0
This is the story of a man who walked through life under a dangerous amount of vices, sleepovers and alcohol in his blood, without knowing days or nights, and without any attention to the advice of his mother and friends, Christians a good part of them. He finally heard them. Today he is an ambulance driver, a job he appreciates, because he feels that from his post he helps the needy. And even if ambulances are missing and the guards are tense, it takes encouragement to many in need, whether it’s a sick child, a physical impeded or an old man.

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CULTURE

From decline to ascension

16 October, 2020 Webmáster 0
Today’s proposal delves into two female figures brought to the screenplay. Kristen Stewart is Jean Seberg in “Seberg” (Benedict Andrews, 2019) and Tilda Cobham-Hervey is Helen Reddy in ‘I Am a Woman’ (Unjoo Moon, 2019). The American actress and the Australian singer, respectively, were important references for audiences and mass culture in different stages and eras. These films allow the first contact with the figures they are dealing with and the context in which each of them unfolded. Thanks to soundtracks, screenings, plots and well-connected plots, we attend, in times of constant biographical films, two revealing works: one of the expected decline and the other of the stimulating ascent.

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SOCIETY

The Two Lives of José Mojica

12 October, 2020 Webmáster 0
The beautiful song Only Once, was composed by Agustín Lara for his friend the Mexican actor and vocalist José Mojica (Mexico 1896-Peru 1974). Lara wrote the lyrics when she learned that the great singer would become a Franciscan friar. From the New Word we share small fragments of a long and fruitful existence, which are, in short, like small pieces of a puzzle that are arming the soul of a great man, who was able to choose an expeditious and glamorous life; but he chose a spiritual life where fame, gold and money never took place.

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SPORT

The boiling ball

12 October, 2020 Webmáster 0
Our sports section returns, and in it… The ball is still at stake. For various reasons, many are concerned about the overall quality of today’s baseball. In the opinion of our articleist, it is in pitching that the biggest shortcomings seem to be, “at least, he says, is what is reflected in the National Series”. But there’s another indicator pointing in that direction. There is not a single Cuban pitcher right now that stands out in major leagues, except for the closeers Aroldis Chapman and Raysel Iglesias, who belong to a generational group that emigrated a few years ago.

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