Aid to the Church in Need: Cuba: Loudspeaker systems for the religious processions

Cuba: Loudspeaker systems for the religious processions

Posted by Project of the Week on 10/4/2009, 5:51 pm
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The typical Catholic popular piety in Cuba has always been marked by colourful processions – Good Friday processions, Corpus Christi processions, processions in honour of Our Lady of Cobre, the Patroness of Cuba, Easter processions... etc. Many of these traditions are centuries old and were only disrupted by the communist regime for around four decades of last century.

It was just a few months before the visit by Pope John Paul II in January 1998 that the Cuban authorities finally and little by little conceded the permission to hold religious processions in the streets once more.

Today these processions are important as a living testimony to the presence of the Catholic Church and as a means of strengthening the faith and self-confidence of the Catholics in the country.

Pope John Paul II appealed above all to the young people of Cuba to venture along the path of faith with the Church. The religious processions symbolise this path. However, the bishops have requested loudspeakers, so that the large throngs of pilgrims can hear and join in the prayers. And so the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has promised to help –with a grant of $17,00 for the diocese of Holguín and $9,500 for the diocese of Salvador de Bayamo – so that everyone can hear the voice of the Church in Cuba, loud and clear.

To help this cause please contact the Australian office of ACN on (02) 9679-1929. e-mail: info@aidtochurch.org or write to Aid to the Church in Need PO Box 6245 Blacktown DC NSW 2148. Web: www.aidtochurch.org

A procession in honour of Our Lady of Cobre, the Patroness of Cuba
(Code: 216-08-49)

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