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In these days of tribulation, Christians pray the #Padrenuestro to plead with #Dios to eradicate the disease and guide our steps in a scenario that has become surprisingly dangerous. Daily life has shown that we suffer from a chronic shortage of basic products and services even without #coronavirus and that we face a war against low birth rate, double currency, fragmentary government control, high prices set in the state and private sectors, as well as poor quality of the products offered. For this chronicler, “televised masses have come to soften the tensions now aggravated by the closure, and should be added to the preces of the ceremony, the permanence of such Sunday broadcasts when the isolation is over. It would greatly benefit the elderly, the disabled, hospitalized and also the prisoners, who need the Eucharistic message so much.”

The Marist brother of Spanish origin, Jesús Bayo Mayor, after thirteen years of stay in Cuba, returned to Chile, where he had first arrived in 1979. The first days in southern land were admiring to see economic progress and improvements in the urban infrastructure of its large capital. Soon that impression changed. Today he tells us that during the eight months he has been in that country, he has had the experience of seeing that he is afflicted by some social and economic viruses that are aggravating with the Coronavirus pandemic. Therefore, in addition to telling how Covid-19 affects Chile, it gives us a previous presentation of social movements.

Three months after the first cases of #Covid19 confirmed, #Cuba will begin to open the society to enter the so-called ‘new normal’. How we’re going to deal with that reality from now on, we don’t know. Because the queues are going to continue, our needs continue to grow, and the margins and gaps where the disorder operates are open.
With reduced collective transport and a declining supply of goods, goods and services, the new normal does not provide a very encouraging picture.

Centro Habana, if not the standard-bearer of social indiscipline in the Cuban capital, is in the avant-garde platoon. What causes affect this? The following text tells us about the complex structure and social formation of this slum and insists on those potentials that are addressed with the help of the social sciences, become strengths in any difficult situation such as #Covid19.

With the lyrics of a song, the sister of the Congregation of God’s Love, Antonia Valverde, Toñi, as she is known, expresses her gratitude for the welcome received from God and others during this obligatory isolation.

Word New reproduces Catechesis number six, dedicated to the theme of prayer. It was released at the General Audience on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. We invite you to share it from our domestic Church.

Cuban narrator, essayist and critic Margarita Mateo finds the idea of returning to what many already call new normalcy unpleasant. He fears that this new normality will be very similar to the previous one and reproduce the same patterns. For the university professor, this would lead us to “continue to live in a world where values continue to prevail that far from contributing to the improvement of the human species, tend to promote the worst of it, including epidemic idiocy and attachment to the banal”.

For Neife Maria Rigau Chiong, a young Habanera Catholic, these months of confinement have known her for retirement. Although initially, they were initially painted lost, he could later see them as an opportunity. “As at all times,” he says, “in this period I have also been comforted to know myself accompanied by God; it is one of the certainties that we must always keep within us, because it gives us the strength we need to act or the patience we need to wait. That certainty is Christian hope.”