Day of Fasting & Prayer for Cuba for Human Rights, Liberty, & Justice

Cubans pray and fast for freedom

On March 26, 2010 at Our Lady of Charity (Ermita de la Caridad) a Day of Fasting & Prayer for Cuba for Human Rights, Liberty, & Justice was observed beginning at 9am and ending at 9pm organized by the Spiritual Leaders of the Exile, Union of Cubans in Exile, The Felix Varela Foundation and Communities of Cuban Exclessiastical Reflection in the Diaspora( CRECED).


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Videos and photos were taken at the closing Mass presided over by Bishop Agustín Román

The schedule of events at the shrine was as follows:

• 9 a.m. -- Opening prayer and holy hour led by Auxiliary Bishop Felipe Estevez

• 10:30 a.m. -- Ecumenical prayer service led by Los Guías Espirituales en el Exilio

• 12 p.m. -- Mass presided by Msgr. Oscar Castañeda, rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity

• 1:30 p.m. -- Rosary

• 3 p.m. -- Divine Mercy Chaplet

• 3:15p.m. -- Stations of the Cross

• 6 p.m. -- Ecumenical service led by retired Episcopal Bishop Onell Soto and Rev. Martin Añorga, retired pastor of First Spanish Presbyterian Church in Miami

• 6:45 p.m. -- Ceremony honoring the political prisoners and their families

• 7 p.m. -- Special presentation of the documentary “La Caridad nos Une”

• 8 p.m. -- Closing Mass presided by Bishop Agustín Román.


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