MIAMI, United States. — At the beginning of the current month, the absence of communion wafers for the realization of homilies in Cuba, a situation that raised alarms in the religious community of the Island.
On November 14, a statement released by the weekly Christian lifedirected by Jesuits, realized that the hosts would once again be delivered to the faithful thanks to donations of flour received in recent days and mostly coming from abroad.
“The flour has come to us from our simple inhabitants, from institutions, from Miami, Puerto Rico, Spain, and also the endowment that we have from the State,” the information indicates.
In the statement reproduced by the weekly, the nuns of the Monastery of Discalced Carmelites of Santa Teresa, located on Calle 13, in the Havana neighborhood of Vedado, thanked the expressions of solidarity offered by Cubans from inside and outside the island.
“What is impressive about all this is how it has touched the hearts of so many people of good will who, like the widow in the Gospel, have offered little or much so that the work can continue.”
Now, communion wafers can be made again to supply the country’s churches.
“We are resuming work to be able to offer this service to the Church that is on pilgrimage in Cuba as soon as possible,” they announced.
The Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites of Santa Teresa had informed all the dioceses on November 2 that it could no longer produce any more hosts because it had run out of wheat flour, a product that has been in short supply for months on the island.
Days later, Father José Luis Pueyo, from the diocese of Villa Clara, told the newspaper 14ymedio that they would have to break the remaining hosts into several pieces in order to provide for the faithful.
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