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For this active Catholic communicator, wife and mother of two children, it was a divine gift that invited her to be part of the team of realization of “A God who goes out to meet”, program of the diocese of Pinar del Río that during the pandemic was broadcast every Sunday, at ten in the morning, by Radio Guamá and Radio Artemis. Today he assures us: “It was a wonderful experience! It was a major challenge; I had never worked in that environment, but in it we found real professionals who became great teachers and friends for us.”

For a few years now, he has been rolling down a sentence for cyberspace that Umberto Eco stated in an interview and returned to on some occasion or another. The text crudely stated that social media had managed to give the idiots a voice and that we were suffering from the invasion of a legion of. In fact, in the face of many current events, the writer’s words need to be reviewed.

For weeks, Dr. Benito Abeledo Fernández, who works in the mental health department of San Miguel del Padrón, in La Hababa, has waited in vain for the barrage of patients with psychiatric alterations according to the exceptional state of things that the world lives and in particular the country. But the alud didn’t just arrive. Are we survivors? How long will the survival catch up with us? As a doctor, he says, he has no scientific explanation for it.

For those who serve the Church since communication, this stage of confinement has not allowed her to stop. María C. López Campistrous (our Chuchu) knows it well. In this time, in addition to the concerns accumulated by the children and relatives far from it, he achieved the complete digitization of the 216 editions of the diocesan newsletter of Santiago de Cuba “Church in March”, which in the midst of the pandemic and isolation reached its thirty years of uninterrupted circulation. It was many hours of work, but of great joy, because this publication has been linked to his life and service these thirty years.

The days of confinement led a woman, mother, wife, poet and novelist to create with their hands a Tree of Life to celebrate, in the midst of chaos, an action of worship of the created by God. When Yasmín Sierra Montes felt anguish, he would go to his tree and place something created by God and say, “If God created this world he will never destroy it. I must put your work on hold.”

On this occasion, the text of the series that we have published for a few days, at the request of our protagonist, presents it as an interview. A Cuban responds, from head to toe; a Catholic, the same, from the beginning and until it ends; proud of his land and his ecclesial community in that archdiocese. His greatest fortune on earth is the large family he has constituted, the parents he had… For five years now, this Cuban Catholic has emigrated to the United States. At this stage of pandemic, Osvaldo Gallardo González has understood as never before his own fragility and that of others. However, when he has reached the top of bewilderment, he has found God and the certainty of his will.