Publicado el 09-09-2010
Love and Emotion
Surrounding Our Lady
of Charity
For the last fifty years, the Cuban community in exile, represented in significant numbers in Miami, has been celebrating, with emotion and devotion, the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary floating in the Bay of Nipe, in Cuba’s easternmost province in 1612. This is a huge demonstration of love for the Virgin in which the Cubans are joined by several thousands of Latin Americans who live in this city as well as Anglos. Of course, the immense majority is formed by Latin Americans.
This September 8th, 2010, the procession left the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity on its way to the huge Bank United Center of the University of Miami, where thousands of Catholics were awaiting the arrival of the statue of the Virgin to begin a solemn Pontifical Mass celebrated by Monsignor Thomas Wenski, Archbishop of Miami, with other Bishops and many priests, to pay homage to the Patroness of Cuba that holds such spiritual significance for the Cuba of yesteryear and of today.
It is indispensable to emphasize the value of the religious feelings of the Cuban people when they lovingly, respectfully, invoke the Virgin Mary, identified as Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre. El Cobre is the small town where the National Shrine was built, which was declared a Basilica in 1977.
This year throughout the island of Cuba there will be celebrations lasting a year and a half with a message of reconciliation invoking Our Lady of Charity. This reconciliation, of course, should be understood in terms of dignity, liberty and true fraternity. The processions that are taking place in towns and large cities prove that the moral and religious values represented by Our Lady of Charity are alive in the hearts and consciences of the noble Cuban people.
It is a known fact, a tradition of half a century, that in every Cuban home in exile, no matter where in the world it is, there are prayers for Our Lady of Charity with devout religious feelings and patriotic love.
As it has done in previous years, DIARIO LAS AMERICAS joins the Cubans in exile to pay respectful homage to Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre.
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