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As a woman of action and delicacy could be defined María Cruz García, our Maricruz, a lay woman committed to her Church since her early incorporation into the Catholic Student Youth. An example of a wife, mother and grandmother, today she presents hes heses he himself before God with the musicality of his paused speaking, which did not detract from his balanced criteria, which he knew how to express in tone with the time and place. His rich personality leaves us with a desire: That there are many Cuban lay people like Maricruz in the current Catholic Church, so in need of them!

According to the reading of the holy Gospel according to Matthew 21:33-43, “Jesus shows us God’s faithfulness always to his people, whom he always forgives”. This is how Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana, referred in his address this Sunday, October 4. “God is persevering in his love,” he said, “created man in his image and likeness, and the first men of mankind rejected him.” They, he said, preferred the fate of selfishness and set aside living as children of God and brothers of all. Faced with this reality, he remembered that God chooses good people as a testimony to bear. Among them, the archbishop mentioned Abel, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Jacob’s son, and Moses.

Jesus Christ is the cornerstone, discarded by so many wise and understood, reproached by man today, atheist, agnostic, indolent, apathetic, or indifferent; it is the cornerstone on which God the Father has wanted to rebuild his entire project of broken love for sin. And it remains for each of us Christians, their disciples, the hope of salvation, The One who overcomes death has become a giver of new life for all of us who believe in Him.

Today, September 29th celebrates sixty-seven years of profession Father Manuel Uña. He has been, for more than twenty-five years, the close friend of many Cubans, Catholic or not, of simple people, people “on foot”, of […]

Faced with the recurring question that many Cubans are asking today, what aspirations can I have here and now, a young Catholic recalls the Pope’s invitation to live a “revolution of tenderness”. Five years ago, Francis, during his visit to the island, also explained the pillars that sustain this revolution: service, poverty and hope. Today, in the face of the disconcerting day-to-day life of this people, our common aspiration must be to give ourselves in service to the brother and in the construction, little by little, of the best Cuba that we are sure exists. “We must know that we will suffer misunderstandings and frustrations,” says the author, but “we are not edulating the Pope’s message.”

Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana, stated in his stay on this Sunday, September 27th, that many people, in saying yes to God, have also said yes to their family, their neighbors, their peoples and their churches. Among the examples of these “permanent yes” he recalled to marriages of many years of marriage; to the children who have remained with their older fathers until the last minute of their lives and to the Virgin Mary who accepted the will of God the Father to be the Mother of her Son made man.

We can choose between being sinners on the way, listening to the Lord, and when they fall they repent and rise.