Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba asks Caridad del Cobre for "current, food and freedom"

The archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, Monsignor Dionisio García Ibáñez, asked the Virgin of Charity of Cobre for current, food and freedom in the Eucharist on Palm Sunday, something that he said is nothing more than echoing the requests that the pilgrims They make 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 feet of the Virgin.

The religious also lamented the “daily struggle to find the essentials to live, which are often in short supply.”

"Our people have said, ask and repeat: 'current and food'"Is that unattainable?" questioned the archbishop, who also made reference to the blackouts.

“The nights get long without energy. Let's ask the Lord to at least give us inner energy. We need to have peace in life, for our children and our elderly to sleep well, and we, who have to work the next day.”

“Our people also ask for freedom so that everyone can make their life their project and for their children to achieve the maximum. “People want to do it here, mother, in Cuba, but the situation makes many children go to other places because they cannot find a future here.”, he pointed out.

“No more violence,” the religious also requested, and specified that “The daily struggle of life in Cuba is already violence.”

“This is what our people ask for and want, and what better place than to say it here. May we have the hope of that people who were waiting for the Messiah, knowing that one day the light will come to our people, the inner light, that we realize that if we do not do the will of God, which is to do good, we fail in the life,” added Monsignor Dionisio García Ibáñez in the final segment of his prayer to the Virgin.

The archbishop of Santiago de Cuba finally asked “that we all be one and that we all respect each other.”

García Ibáñez prayed before the Patroness of Cuba in the National Sanctuary Basilica located in El Cobre, one of the towns that participated in the popular protests a few days ago.