Month: May 2021

At a mass celebrated in the morning hours of this April 30, in the church of the La Salle school in Caracas (Venezuela), Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, known as “the doctor of the poor”, was declared Blessed. The relic of the country’s first lay Blessed was carried during the ceremony by Yaxury Solorzano, the girl who was miraculously healed through the intercession of José Gregorio, after being shot in the head by a shotgun in March 2017.

Manuel Díaz Páez recalls his membership in the Catholic Worker Youth (JOC) with the satisfaction of having belonged to one of the most dynamic groups with the deepest social commitment in the history of the Cuban Church

“Remain in me, and I in you”, is the command that the Lord gives us today, in this historical moment, in our local Church, in the concrete place where we live. Abiding in Him is the challenge we face every day when things are not going our way, when they persecute us, slander us, or make us suffer in any way. Abiding in Him is not a game, nor a partial or temporary option, or a beautiful expression; It is the key that sets the standard for the existence of the authentic Christian, who does not fear anything or anyone; He is only afraid of not being faithful to Christ until the end. Staying is the opposite of abandoning, leaving, letting yourself be carried away by comfort, preferring yourself over others. Abiding in Him entails being willing to be rejected, mocked, lacerated and crucified as He was. The counterpart is simply incomparable: “ask what you wish, and it will be done.”