RELIGION
XXIII Sunday of Ordinary Time
September 6, 2020 “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them, “ saith the Lord. Readings First Reading Reading Ezekiel’s Prophecy 33, 7-9 This is what […]
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RELIGION
Jubilee year in the midst of the pandemic
The Jubilee celebration for twenty-five years of presence in Cuba at the service of evangelization has been very atypical for the Siervas Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit. The arrival of the Covid-19 on the island last March forced them to rethly the planned. Driven by trinitarian spirituality that defines them, they decided to adjust their missionary charism, characterized by the proclamation of the Gospel, and to make it present in spaces where it has not arrived, its knowledge is insufficient or, simply, where it will be needed to collaborate in what is already being done.
CULTURE
What a couple of women!
Care for children, leave the home space, face impulsive husbands… all to prove if you are in the right vocation and overcome yourself, is how much two women who, for their time, were tempted to go against the current. “Patsy and Loretta” is a feature film open to several comments on the role of women, the importance of vocation, friendship, multi-cultural commitment in a country confronted with itself at the start of the sixties.
RELIGION
Sixth day of the Ninth to the Virgin
Mary, respond to that collaboration requested by the creator. The SI, given to God’s envoy in the annunciation, is renewed and prolonged throughout the time, so it accompanies his children, those he received at the foot of the cross, in all his dreams, hopes and sorrows.
RELIGION
Fifth day of the Ninth to the Virgin
Pilgrimage in faith, grow as disciples of the Lord
RELIGION
Fourth day of the Ninth to the Virgin
The Mother of God is the bond of union between two events of salvation, both by the words of Simeon and by the gesture of offering of the Son, symbol and prophecy of her priesthood of love and pain in Golgotha.
RELIGION
Catechesis of S.S. Francisco
Pope Francis has resumed the General Audiences with the presence of the faithful. This Wednesday, September 2, after almost six months, the Pontiff met with several hundred faithful in the courtyard of St. God. The central theme of catechesis was solidarity, of which he stated, “it is a matter of justice”. From The New Word, we share the full text of this catechesis.
SOCIETY
Covid Notes of the Year (12)
If any of those officials, enthusiastic in naming the years, had named it after 2020, this would have been the Year of The Salt Flat. Xavier, a young Cuban, tells him, whom a communications scholarship took him to India at the end of January, from where he was due to leave in May. There he had to stay in a university bunker, with friends from various countries and languages, waiting for repatriation flights that took him from Delhi to Ukraine, and from there to Frankfurt, and then landed in Havana.
RELIGION
Third day of the Ninth to the Virgin
We celebrate the “admirable mystery” and the “ineffable plan” by which the merciful Father sent his Son “from heaven to the bosom of the Holy Virgin”, so that it may be for us “word of salvation and bread of life”.
RELIGION
Second day of the Ninth to the Virgin
The Magnificat is the first public manifestation of Jesus, of this reality still hidden but already imposed and work in which they welcome her, like Mary: the living reality of the Word ingrained in her impels her not to stop in herself and opens her to the dimension of service: “Mary was with Elizabeth for about three months”