Generous Flour Donations Allow Carmelites in Cuba to Resume Making Communion Hosts for Churches

LifeSite News ^ | 11/18/22 | Louis Knuffke

[marshmallow]

Donations came 'from the simple people of our towns, from institutions, from Miami, Puerto Rico, Spain and also the allocation we have from the State,' the nuns said.

HAVANA, Cuba (LifeSiteNews) — After issuing an announcement earlier this month that there were no more hosts available for Catholic churches in Cuba, the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Havana happily reported that they are now able to distribute hosts again due to donations of flour to the convent.

The announcement came in a Nov. 14 notice to all Catholic parishes and dioceses in Cuba, in which the Carmelites stated they would “resume the work to be able to offer this service [of making hosts] to the pilgrim Church in Cuba as soon as possible,” having received through generous donations sufficient flour to make hosts for Mass.

The crisis had come to the nuns, who make the Communion hosts for all the Catholic churches on the island, because of a flour shortage affecting the whole country. The nuns had stated in an announcement to churches on Nov. 2 that they had used the last of their flour. “We have been working with the little flour that was left and what we had in reserve has come to an end,” they lamented.

Parishes subsequently had to rely on whatever supply of hosts they already possessed in order to continue offering Mass and Communion to the faithful. According to a report from , shortly after the nuns’ announcement, “Father José Luis Pueyo of the Diocese of Villa Clara told the newspaper 14ymedio that they would have to break their remaining hosts into several pieces in order to provide for the faithful.” Now, however, the distribution of Holy Communion can resume as before.

The nuns noted in their recent statement that the since the.......

[MeganC]

Good for the Catholics coming together on something that truly matters. I’m sure the faggots in the Vatican were offended.