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Faith, Art, and the Courage to Be Free

Homily — Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

Father Ruben, July 25, 2026July 25, 2026

The Wisdom to Find the True Treasure Readings: 1 Kings 3:5, 7–12; Psalm 119:57, 72, 76–77, 127–128, 129–130; Romans 8:28–30; Matthew 13:44–52 Brothers and sisters, If God appeared to us in a dream tonight and said, “Ask me for anything, and I will give it to you,” what would we…

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Homily — Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

Father Ruben, July 12, 2026

Readings: Isaiah 55:10–11 · Psalm 65 · Romans 8:18–23 · Matthew 13:1–23 The Word That Never Returns Empty My dear brothers and sisters, There is a quiet scandal at the heart of today’s Gospel, and Jesus does not hide it. He states it plainly: the same seed, sown by the…

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11J: Cinco años después — Memoria, Verdad y Esperanza para Cuba

Father Ruben, July 11, 2026July 11, 2026

I. El día en que Cuba perdió el miedo Hace exactamente cinco años, el 11 de julio de 2021, ocurrió algo que muchos creían imposible. Comenzó en San Antonio de los Baños, un pueblo de la provincia de Artemisa, y en cuestión de horas se extendió como fuego por más…

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11J: Five Years Later — Memory, Truth, and Hope for Cuba

Father Ruben, July 11, 2026July 11, 2026

I. The Day Cuba Lost Its Fear Exactly five years ago, on July 11, 2021, something happened that many believed impossible. It began in San Antonio de los Baños, a small town in the province of Artemisa, and within hours it spread like wildfire through more than fifty cities and…

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Once Upon a Time, a Blue Globe

Father Ruben, July 11, 2026July 11, 2026

I wrote this text in Spanish in 2016, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was a one-page essay assigned as homework for a course — whose name I no longer recall — during my years of study with the Dominicans, and it originally bore the title “Reflexión verde” (Green Reflection)….

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“Cuba Is Dying”: Five Years Later, My Words Still Hurt

Father Ruben, July 10, 2026July 10, 2026

There are texts one writes hoping they will age quickly. That within a few years they will sound exaggerated, outdated, mercifully obsolete. The one I am republishing today is one of them. And its tragedy — the tragedy of my people — is that five years later it has not…

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«Cuba está muriendo»: cinco años después, mis palabras siguen doliendo

Father Ruben, July 10, 2026

Hay textos que uno escribe con la esperanza de que envejezcan pronto. Que en pocos años suenen exagerados, superados, felizmente obsoletos. Este que hoy vuelvo a publicar es uno de ellos. Y su tragedia, la tragedia de mi pueblo, es que cinco años después no ha envejecido nada. Al contrario:…

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Bienvenidos: soy el Padre Rubén, y esta es mi casa digital

Father Ruben, July 7, 2025July 10, 2026

Toda casa se inaugura abriendo la puerta y dando la bienvenida. Esta es la mía, y hoy la abro de par en par para ti. Soy el Padre Rubén Leyva, sacerdote católico. Conocido en la vida religiosa como Rubén de la Trinidad y, en el mundo de la música, como…

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  • Homily — Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
  • Homily — Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
  • 11J: Cinco años después — Memoria, Verdad y Esperanza para Cuba
  • 11J: Five Years Later — Memory, Truth, and Hope for Cuba
  • Once Upon a Time, a Blue Globe

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