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RELIGION

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Saying yes to God will lead us on unsuspected, even unwanted paths, but It will free us from fear and risk of mistakes, from the danger of wasting the life He has given us. Saying yes to God implies humility of heart, serenity, audacity, perseverance, struggle with oneself, capacity and willingness to listen, generous dedication. So was Mary’s yes, not a one-day response, but a decision that defined her whole life.

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CULTURE

What comes from the past

With the premiere of “Malasaña 32” (Albert Pintó), a film that takes up haunted houses –so common in horror plots–, Spanish cinema once again transitions from mystery to belief. Although it does not want to be the typical film of bloodied dead and murderous spirits, it ends up being too gimmicky. And it’s a shame … because “Malasaña 32”, which exhibits a very attractive setting on the screen, carries a complicated life story, the one necessary to have given more substance to the narrative.

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NEWS

Leonardo Padura and his readings of history

With regard to the Carlos Fuentes Medal, awarded this year to Leonardo Padura, Palabra Nueva shares some excerpts from the conference “The Novel in front of the Mirror of History”, with which the Cuban writer opened the Carlos Fuentes Literary Hall of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, in its special edition online 2020.

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Palabra de Hoy
RELIGION

Third Sunday of Advent

How are we going to rejoice when the pain passes us by? What are we going to rejoice in when we are robbed of the deepest essence of who we are and want to be? Why should Christians rejoice when many live cocks and sad? Today’s Word of God comes to help us reverse this apathetic and annodine situation of sadness and abulia. Certainly God does not want us sad, hesitant, or ungrateful. Joy, like good, is communicative and diffuse. You can’t hide. It has to be shared, and sharing it grows and multiplies. Let us ask the Lord to live our Christian faith with joy. Let us ask Mary to smile always, to smile, even if we have a soul full of tears, as her song says. True and permanent joy, not momentary, superficial or cover-up of reality; joy that is founded on the strength of the Spirit of Christ that always aggss and accompanies us. May nothing and no one deprive us of the joy of the Lord. He’s our joy.

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RELIGION

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, dogma of the Catholic Church decreed in 1854 which maintains that the Virgin Mary was freed from original sin from the first moment of her conception on the merits of her Son Jesus Christ. Today is a day to understand that God also wants to count on us to transform the world as He did with Mary, who also wants to fill us with his grace, who expects our yes to transform us and transform the reality around us.

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RELIGION

Address December 6, second Sunday of Advent

“All goodness is achievable, peace can fill the earth, love multiply, hatred disappear.” With this statement, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana reminds us in his Sunday address of this December 6, that Christ has chosen us so that “the promise fulfilled”, which contemplates the reduced sin, the full good and the disappeared evil, will become a reality in each of us, in our homes and in our peoples , in our Church.

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