Year: 2021

In his Sunday address, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana, reminds us that Jesus Christ is spiritual food both in his Word and in his Body and Blood. With this spiritual food we will have life, which will be full if it is led by love. “There is full life in a home if there is love. There is full life in a marriage if there is faithful love, and from there more life will emerge in the blessed fruits. There is full life in the elderly who feel loved, loved, cared for, treated with affection. There is full life in children that make their parents happy. There is full life in the bride and groom who are preparing to form the family they dreamed of and talked about together. There is full life in the neighbors who help each other. There is full life in those who settle their differences and conflicts as brothers ”.

God never leaves us alone; he is a good Father. Our weakness and smallness, manifested in this way, humbly before Him, will be the best soil in which the seed of God’s omnipotence and love will grow and manifest. Because God chooses the weakest in this world to confuse the strong; because the strength of God will be realized in our weakness. In everyday life, we are pilgrims, walkers, who need to get up every time we fall, over and over again, and feed on Him to follow the path that He has marked us on, in which He accompanies us without ceasing.

Today’s Word of God leads us into one of the most important mysteries of our Christian faith: the sacramental presence of Christ alive in the Eucharist, offered to us as the bread of life, to quench our hunger, to quench our thirst. But… what am I hungry for? What is my thirst? These questions can be extended to the society in which we live. Certainly we have to admit with shame and blush that in the world in which we live there are still many people who really starve, who do not have what it takes to live; there are also many men and women who hunger and thirst for justice and freedom. But the hunger and thirst that we are being told about today goes beyond the visible and tangible. It is the hunger and thirst for God. Our world needs God to transform our hearts; you need Christ so that any other type of hunger and thirst will disappear and you will be satisfied and calm. Because from the encounter with God in Christ, new hearts spring up capable of recreating the world in true justice and freedom, that overcome differences, that put the poor and needy in the priority of their work and efforts.

June 7 of this year marked the sixtieth anniversary of the publication in the Official Gazette of the Law of Nationalization of Education. Six decades after its application, it is appropriate to analyze the effects caused by the intervention process. A reliable sample of the result obtained is constituted by the Pious Schools and in particular the one located in the municipality of Guanabacoa. The stupefaction and sadness appear when contemplating the “destructive” state of what was until 1961 one of the best Catholic schools in Latin America and the Caribbean, if not the best in the entire American continent. The deterioration has advanced so much that the walls and ceilings are clearly seen about to fall on the workers of the Municipality of Education of Guanabacoa, who work in the offices installed in the immense building for more than twenty years, despite the danger . Only the novitiate house is spared from decline and it was in this place that the Piarist Father Ricardo Alberto Sola Ros, rector and superior of the order in Cuba, had the kindness to expose a succinct history of the Order of the Clerics to the New Word. Poor Regulars of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, better known as Piarists.