Before the feet of the Virgin of Charity of Copperthe archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, Monsignor Dionisio García Ibáñezpleaded during the Eucharist this Sunday for the people in the country who suffer the consequences of emigration.
“To the workers who try to provide their loved ones with a decent home; to those who mourn the emigration of husbands, children, grandchildren, friends,” García expressed during a prayer of supplication, as published by the Archbishopric of Santiago de Cuba on Facebook.
In the prayer, the monsignor also included “the mothers who struggle to feed their children; to so many who never tire of looking for medicine for their patients; to the relatives of the prisoners who dream of seeing them return home, one day, healthy,” alluding to the pressing problems of the Cuban reality.
Among them, he made references to the economic crisis and its effects on the family, such as shortage of food and medicine. He also addressed the situation of the political prisoners in the regime’s prisons, where their relatives, sometimes desperate for the lack of justice, long to see them return healthy and with the fewest consequences.
García also highlighted the people who “suffer violence and theft, and those who face so many material and spiritual deprivations.” This phenomenon is observed more frequently in today’s society, since the delinquency It is often related to the increase in evils derived from the economic crisis.
Likewise, he said that “love” is found today in “the children who lovingly care for the elderly in the house; of those from other lands help family and friends; of the neighbors who accompany each other in sorrows and joys; of so many who selflessly serve their neighbors”, showing faith in the Cuban, despite the shortcomings they suffer.
Finally, the archbishop of Santiago de Cuba in the prayer of supplication expressed that the people are possessors of “potentialities”, and on this topic, invited to learn to live in harmony“in one heart and one soul, with different ways of thinking, and, together, find solutions that lead us to be born in peace, to work in peace, to eat in peace, to die in peace.”
Last March, during the Palm Sunday Eucharist, García He asked the Virgin of Charity of Cobre for current, food and freedom.something that he said is nothing more than echoing the requests that pilgrims make to the Patroness of Cuba.
“We want to live with greater relief, we want to try to live a normal life in which everyone can make their plan, their life project, where life is not a struggle and a perennial job,” said García Ibáñez at the foot of the Virgin.
