Articles by Webmáster

SOCIETY

The flight of the swallows

24 August, 2021 Webmáster 0
What will be the brand of gastronomy in this gap of time? Prevented from going to restaurants, pizzerias and coffee shops, Cubans are forced to buy to go, or order by phone, with the corresponding increase in the price of the latter option. It would have been the time of luxury for online shopping, but the poor quality of the local internet, and the high costs of the product and the messaging, make it a minority service, not popular. So what will typify the gastronomy of these pandemic years? In any case, food as a feast of the senses is not present, it is an absence. We only feed ourselves – as we can – to stay alive.

[…]

CULTURE

Skilled in painting and on the move

24 August, 2021 Webmáster 0
The Twist (2021) by Martin Owen wants to dissociate himself soon not from the literary reference of Charles Dickens, but from the probable association with what is perhaps the most remembered film adaptation of all time: Oliver! (1968) by Carol Reed. The film entertains very little in its tangled plot. The script is obvious. What really concerns here are the movements on rooftops and esplanades, where Oliver Twist lags behind both the version of 1912 and that of Romans Polański of 2005.

[…]

RELIGION

Alocución, 22 de agosto, XXI domingo del tiempo ordinario

22 August, 2021 Webmáster 0
En su alocución dominical el cardenal Juan de la Caridad García, arzobispo de La Habana nos recuerda que hoy también Dios nos pregunta a nosotros si queremos dejarle, si preferimos el camino del mal, del odio, de los vicios, de la destrucción familiar, del abandono de los ancianos…. el camino de la negación de Dios. “Ante esta interrogante nuestra respuesta es seguirle siempre, pues Él tiene palabras de amor, paz, concordia, entrega sacrificada por el prójimo… Mi familia y yo te serviremos, Dios nuestro; y caminaremos y viviremos contigo ahora, diciendo sí a tolo bueno, y diciendo no a todo lo malo. Tu palabra nos indica el camino, y tu cuerpo y sangre, presentes en la Eucaristía, en la Comunión, nos fortalecen para ser felices en la misión de amor que nos pides”.

[…]

San Egidio
RELIGION

San Egidio: the inn of the Good Samaritan

21 August, 2021 Webmáster 0
Responding to a request from the Office of Humanitarian Affairs of the Office of the City Historian and the municipal and provincial directorates of Public Health in the Cuban capital, the Community of San Egidio agreed to convert its headquarters in Havana into a center of isolation. for cases of positive children to Covid 19.

[…]

RELIGION

XXI Sunday in Ordinary Time

21 August, 2021 Webmáster 0
God has created us free, to think, choose and act accordingly. Freedom, for better or for worse, is what most resembles us to God, it is the characteristic that best reflects the image of him in us. Those who seek to take possession of the freedom of others, in any of its forms or levels, are wanting to occupy the place due to God alone. Those who allow personal freedom to be curtailed in the name of any reason or cause, no matter how just and noble it may seem, are allowing the most essential and valuable part of their person to deteriorate and perhaps disappear. Every human person, as being intelligent, free and capable of loving, similar to God, is qualified and called to choose his destiny and to make the opportune decisions to achieve it; to think, decide and act accordingly to being essentially free from it.

[…]

El desafío de la escucha en el proceso sinodal
RELIGION

The challenge of listening in the synodal process

18 August, 2021 Webmáster 0
Next October, the Pope will begin a three-year synodal journey divided into three phases (diocesan, continental and universal). The Catholic Church in Cuba is preparing to initiate a process in each diocese that will involve as many baptized as possible. The Cuban Conference of Religious (CONCUR), in coordination with the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba (COCC) and the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), is promoting throughout the Island a Listening Process with three worksheets to familiarize ourselves with the synodal style and prepare the itinerary that will begin in October. Listening to each other and paying attention to what God asks of us today is a challenge for our Church if we do not want to ignore this opportunity or corner it in a drawer of “beautiful projects” with very little relevance in daily life. This process is not simple or automatic, it requires spiritual dispositions and a conscious effort to seek God’s will among all. The tradition of the Church has two important clues that can guide us on this path: the desire to save the argument of others and the humility to learn from everyone.

[…]

Conversaciones sobre arte
CULTURE

The experience of art

17 August, 2021 Webmáster 0
The times that run continue to demand our care. Staying at home seems to be a safe option, and in this recollection, reading is wise company. It is worth taking into account then the recent book by Rafael Acosta de Arriba, Conversations about art, which combines the rigor of the researcher and exegete of art with the generosity of the admirer not only of heterogeneous artists but also of valuable critics. The author returns to generate the debate of ideas through the interview, one of the genres in which he usually moves with mastery and pleasure.

[…]

Alocución 15 de agosto 2021
RELIGION

Allocution, Sunday August 15, Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary

15 August, 2021 Webmáster 0
Mary invites us to set out on the journey, not to allow ourselves to be trapped by the culture of evil and death, to look at the world from God’s eyes and reflect his goodness and mercy in our words and deeds. Putting ourselves on the path towards God and towards others, detaching ourselves from what hinders and hinders us. A path that so often is not made of roses but of thorns, in which the cross appears at every step. We, with Mary and like Mary, from the smallness of our history, from the humility and poverty of how little we are and have, must reaffirm ourselves in faith in God and in the truth that only in Him can we find.

[…]

Palabra de Hoy
RELIGION

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

15 August, 2021 Webmáster 0
“Our path is the same as that of Christ and the Virgin.” In this way, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, archbishop of Havana, reminded us in his Sunday address that created in the image and likeness of God, who is love, we do not leave space in our hearts for hatred or revenge. “And at the end of life, he said, how wonderful to leave a family full of love, a Church full of faith, hope and charity and a people full of peace.” He begged the Virgin to help those who have Covid, especially pregnant women, whom the Gospel of the day personifies in two great women: Mary and her cousin Elizabeth.

[…]

Ceremonia de clausura de la Juegos Olímpicos Tokio 2020.
SPORT

Arigato Japan

12 August, 2021 Webmáster 0
The Olympic Games distracted us for a few days from this pandemic time in which we have passed since the previous year. They were beneficial moments that we dedicated to putting in second or third plane the fears for health and the macabre noise of so many deficiencies and miseries that hammered our existence. The unusualness of these Olympics had many nuances, such as the lack of public presence in the competitions or the diversity of speeches in the media and social networks, where ideology and politics constantly pulsed, with all degrees of intensity. .

[…]