Month: May 2021

Sandra Ramos Lorenzo (La Habana, 1969). “La maldita circunstancia del agua por todas partes”, 1993. Calcografía sobre papel; 682 x 988 mm. Arte Contemporáneo (1979-1996). Colección Arte Cubano.
SOCIETY

Verbs and vestments: to leave (I)

31 May, 2021 Webmáster 0

Perhaps in our country, as perhaps in few places in the world, the choice to move to another place, or to stay there, has had multiple and complicated connotations, especially in the last six decades. A universal, natural process, such as that of emigration, in Cuba has been, at times, the same silenced or rarefied as even sought or celebrated. Some time, some hope, some horizon, should come closer from time to time and convince us that one day, perhaps the comings will become less necessary, or perhaps, less painful and definitive. Who knows, maybe, by then, maybe even all the comebacks will be more possible. […]

CULTURE

These lines and their mitigating

31 May, 2021 Webmáster 0

From its first pages, El camino a casa (Selvi Ediciones, 2020), by Caridad Atencio, we are presented with a search for confirmation. It is not the random journey, the improvisation that confuses itself, seeking constant amazement at world events, it is fluctuating between present and past, cultural weight and continuing to experience day to day until finding more moderate territories or , perhaps, with other incentives. […]

SPORT

Sport, money and stories of the present time

30 May, 2021 Webmáster 0

The stories that revolve around contracts and comparisons between athletes are not the only trivia that feed this era where anyone publishes a comment or supposed news. The professional and private lives of sports celebrities are constantly exposed in the media. It is an omnivorous narrative, it feeds on everything. A lot of stars have to deal with that ambient noise. One imagines that just as Odysseus covered his ears so as not to listen to the sirens, so do they. And they always have their millions of consolation to forget the madding crowd outside the stadiums. […]

Palabra de Hoy
RELIGION

Holy Trinity Sunday

29 May, 2021 Webmáster 0

A year ago, on Holy Trinity Sunday, June 7, 2020, we began this section, which shares the Word of God for the day, followed by a comment and a prayer. We feel happy to have come this far and we propose to continue offering this small and humble service, like a grain of sand, like a drop of water in the sea, for the good of all those who, through these pages, seek the Lord, listen His Word and pray in the silence of the hours and of the days. Our Christian faith in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, who has manifested himself to us in Jesus Christ, is a consequence of the historical fact of the revelation and incarnation of God, which becomes a patent reality in each one of us when we open our minds and hearts. , without prejudice or limitations, to his truth and his love; when we consciously and consistently receive and live the baptism that identifies us with the crucified and risen Christ; when as a Church, and with the power of her Spirit, we become involved in the commitment to transform the society in which we live; when we do not remain alien or inert in the face of suffering or injustice, looking the other way; when we share the pain and anguish of the brothers and sisters around us, particularly in these difficult times; when we listen to the Father and allow ourselves to be impelled by his Spirit on the path of self-giving and sacrifice that Christ himself walks with us every day. […]

CULTURE

Biblical implications of the expression “seven times” in the poem “The sterile seed” by José Zacarías Tallet

25 May, 2021 Webmáster 0

In the Bible, the number seven has a special value. It is usually associated with the idea of fullness, perfection, completeness, completeness … and therefore, closely linked to the theological sphere and to the vision of divine nature. In the present text, this sense is displayed in the reading of the poem “The sterile seed”, by José Zacarías Tallet. […]

RELIGION

Allocution Sunday 23 May, Feast of Pentecost

23 May, 2021 Webmáster 0

“The hour of the Spirit has come on the day of Pentecost.” In this way, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, archbishop of Havana reminds us this Sunday, May 23, that the Holy Spirit has also been given to us, we have received it in baptism and it has been confirmed in us in the sacrament. of Confirmation. It is transforming us in a progressive interior way, to such an extent that we can say: “I live, but not I, it is Christ who lives in me.” He recalled that the Holy Spirit comes every day on the Church and people of good will. We count on his inspiration and his gifts, let us be guided by him. The Holy Spirit, creator of God’s works, is the teacher of prayer and he is the one who reveals to us the meaning of the Bible that he himself inspired. […]

RELIGION

Pentecost Sunday

23 May, 2021 Webmáster 0

God the Father, through Jesus Christ his beloved Son, wants to renew his Spirit in each one of us at this new Pentecost. In this particular moment of widespread suffering due to the pandemic, of overwhelm and despair due to the consequences of it in broken families, who have lost loved ones, who continue to suffer from the disease, who have lost work and goods necessary for their subsistence, we repeat insistently : Come, Holy Spirit! Let us prepare our hearts to receive it, let us wait for it with faith and trust, let us receive it with joy and enthusiasm. Let us ask God for it: Send, Lord, your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth! Give us, Lord, your Holy Spirit. […]

CULTURE

Course explosion

22 May, 2021 Webmáster 0

By writing Lyrical Diary (Selvi Ediciones, 2020), Roberto Manzano discovers his desire to share a spiritual thought about the world. However, the generalization leads us to want to know the privacy of the author. In fact, would it be convenient to define a world that, beyond spatial-temporal experiences, represents a reality expanded by imagination and dreams from the poet’s experience? Why does Manzano write this diary? […]

La Habana, mayo 2021
SOCIETY

Change life

21 May, 2021 Webmáster 0

From an ethical approach, Professor Teresa Díaz Canals warns us of the danger of perceiving the human from the representation configured in a discourse. “The human, if it is human, must also express the failure of all representation. If the human is translated into a mere concept, it becomes a mechanism of exclusion, of violence, of inhumanity. There are no unique ways to live, to exist. It is about society being appropriate to the person, their appropriate space and not their place of torment. ” […]

NEWS

From El Cobre, we Cubans join the world Rosary

19 May, 2021 Webmáster 0

It is an honor for Cuban Catholics that among so many sanctuaries that the Church has in the world, the one of the Patron Saint of Cuba has been chosen for the prayer of the Holy Rosary for the end of the pandemic, on Thursday, May 20. The fact that this moment of world prayer has Cuba as its headquarters and that it is prayed on the date that marks the birth of the Republic, makes it especially significant. Cuban Television will broadcast the prayer of the Rosary on a deferred basis, through Educational Channel 2, after the 8:00 p.m. broadcast has concluded. of the NTV. […]