{"id":5972,"date":"2020-10-08T02:26:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T06:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palabranueva.net\/maria-cruz-garcia\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:09:51","slug":"maria-cruz-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palabranueva.net\/en\/maria-cruz-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman of action and delicacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many messages were received by the writing of this magazine in response to the briefing note we published about the death last October 5 of our dear Maricruz. All, more extensive or shorter, praised his rich personality, which he developed as a lay woman in the field of the Cuban Catholic Church. Every note read speaks a lot and well of who Maria Cruz Garc\u00eda Bellota was.<\/p>\n

I met her on August 15, 1986 during an interdiocesan coexistence of the Organized Seglar Apostolate (ASO). She and her husband Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n P\u00e9rez, attended through the Archdiocese of Havana, were accompanied by their young son about five years old. After this we became very close. As a lay gathering there was, there was Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n y Maricruz, a binomial of inseparable names, which put a colophon to a married life that reflected his family and ecclesial commitment. They had married on April 18, 1971 in the parish of the Holy Angel Custodian and remained united until death separated them. just two days ago.<\/p>\n

Maricruz began his lay life in the Catholic Student Youth, belonging to cuban Catholic Action. It was from this lineage of lay people that is increasingly scarce in our present Church. Like so many other members of that organization, he had lay identity. He knew very well what it was like to be lay, what he belonged to do and what he didn’t. He did not ask for power quotas within the Catholic community. He knew that his apostolate was outside the four walls of the temple, in the public world, in the social environments of a republican Cuba that had been born constitutionally lay, but not anti-religious. She was one of that legion of lay people who took advantage of each other as much time as they were presented to exercise their apostolate. They had one goal: to save their soul and that of others. They lived an exemplary life, which many took as a reference point. They were proud of what they did without petulant arrogance to belong to Catholic Action, which began from child aspiration to the specialization of secondary education (in which Maricruz began) to lead to the men and women of a more mature association. They were men and women of the Church, pious, but not prudians.<\/p>\n