RELIGION

XXVIII Sunday of Ordinary Time

God the Father wants to marry all mankind through his Son, Jesus Christ. He does not settle for having created us, giving us life at every moment, but wants to establish with us a permanent friendship, a personal relationship because he cannot fail to love us. Don’t be content that we’re good, that we keep his commandments. He wants to have with us a sponsal relationship, of communion of life and love, made of dialogue, trust and forgiveness.

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CULTURE

Nicer than in Ohio

Based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel of the same name, published in 2011, Antonio Campos’ film adaptation “The Devil at All Hours,” narrated by Ray Pollock himself, deserves to be summed up as a story about harmonious coexistence by deprivation. American writer, screenwriter, and film director Paul Auster would say, “Because if you can rescue things from the edge of absence, there’s a chance of giving them back to men by doing so.” This means that the possibility of hope is believed. But an inclusive hope, without the delusions of certain cultural beliefs.

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RELIGION

Woman of action and delicacy

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!

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FOLDER

By the path of desolation towards the season of hope

On February 23, 2020, Leonardo Fernández Otaño, a young Cuban Catholic, was leaving for Spain for a period of two months and a fortnight. He never imagined that his stay in that land would last until a date that does not yet peek and continues to await a long journey that will return him to his island, “fragile, decadent and thirsty for a prosperous future that is increasingly distant to him.”

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RELIGION

Allocution October 4, 2020

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.

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RELIGION

XXVII Sunday of Ordinary Time

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.

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CULTURE

A very special boy

Troy Hall and Lee Karaim have written the superb screenplay for Peel (2019), a simple and beautiful film directed by Rafael Monserrate and starring Emile Hirsch. The undisputed pillar is a very pleasant script that guarantees justified occurrences, with which one laughs more than he cries.

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RELIGION

Those who do not live to serve…

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.”

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