The Brotherhood of the Macarena, live one historic day next June 1, with the blessing of the Jubilee Door in the Basilica of Santa Maria de la Esperanza Macarena. The event will be chaired by the Hon. and Rt. Mr. D. Juan José Asenjo Pelegrina, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Seville and will begin at nine o’clock with a procession, with the participation of leading authorities invited the Governing Board and the Bishop, from the parish of St. Giles to the Basilica of the Macarena. Once the procession reaches to the atrium of the Basilica will be held the opening ceremony of the Jubilee Year Macareno. Finished this act, the Archbishop shall open the door of the Basilica, with subsequent entrance procession to the Basilica and the start of the Opening Mass Macareno Jubilee Year.

The Brotherhood invited to attend all his brothers, devoted and faithful in this Jubilee which will allow the light that radiates from the Basilica de la Macarena reach even further and become entrenched as a beacon of true faith, that is applicable to those who direct their under his wing and get to the end of the road clinging to the anchor of his hope to strengthen their testimonies as good Christians.

On 27 November, the Cardinal Monteiro de Castro, Major Penitentiary of the Vatican, awarded by order of SS Benedict XVI to the Brotherhood of the Macarena a Jubilee to celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Canonical Coronation of Our Lady of Hope Macarena.

This macareno Jubilee Year will begin on June 1, 2013 and end on June 1 next year, can get a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions the faithful on pilgrimage visiting during this time period the Basilica de la Macarena. The original document can be seen at this link, and its translation.

The Governing Board approved Official Cabildo held in the month of April 2011 to request the granting of this Jubilee, which were transmitted the contents of this agreement in the summer of that year to our Archbishop, Hon. and Rt. Mr. D. Juan José Asenjo Pelegrina, who own the initiative welcoming as issued to the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See, offering a new show of affection and closeness to our brotherhood so again we show our appreciation, esteem and respect.

The Governing Board wishes to convey its appreciation for the grace granted to the Cardinal Brotherhood Monteiro de Castro, who has had the opportunity to visit the Basilica and pray to the soles of the Blessed Virgin of Hope in the month of May 2000 , when she served as Apostolic Nuncio to Spain.

It is known as Jubilee or Holy Year Year, the space of time in which the Holy See because most singular reward the faithful who come to the temple to which the privilege is granted. This is a great religious event and becomes a year of remission of sins and sorrows; becomes the year of reconciliation, conversion and justice, along with promoting a renewal of desire to serve God in the joy and peace with the rest of the brothers.

With the granting of the Jubilee Year, the Basilica de la Macarena deepen its vocation school that delve into the most important of the commandments of the Lord, the brotherly love, becoming promised land for all who come to her to meet God , consolidating even more as a center of pilgrimage for those who do visit his encounter with the Blessed Virgin a true testimony of Christian faith and the journey in the company of our brothers can live the grace of reconciliation and feel the joy of gratitude Jesus and who took him in her womb, the Blessed Virgin Mary.

This Jubilee allow the light that radiates from the Basilica de la Macarena reach even further and become entrenched as a beacon of true faith, to protect those who want to sail under their protection and can reach port anchor clinging to hope to strengthen their testimonies as good Christians.

  The current legislation provides tax benefits to individuals or legal persons who cooperate economically with the Jubilee Year, provided they meet the requirements of Royal Decree 1270/2033.

The motion was approved by a majority of the parliamentary groups that make up the table in the Senate. The Commit In Voce has been delivered personally by NHD Brother Javier Arenas Bocanegra, who was accompanied by the Mayor and some councilors of the City Council.

Photos NHD Fernando Garcia Arcos

From the 1st of June, and until May 31, 2014, the Brotherhood of the Macarena welcome and celebrate the Jubilee Year was granted by His Holiness Benedict XVI.

To do this, the Governing Board condideró required the realization of a logo to identify this important religious event with the Brotherhood of the Macarena, which has resulted in the image presented on the morning of March 9, and items are collected macareno of so markedly as the crown, which is topped with a cross that is topped with the left brow of the Blessed Virgin of Hope. An edgy logo that seeks, and get, be the image of the Jubilee Year Macareno, which is hosting the International Marian Congress and Mariology, who first organized a Brotherhood, and the commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Coronation canon of Our Lady of Hope and has been created by the company CONZETA Advertising.

Photos NHD Narbonne Fran Soto and Fernando Garcia Arcos

SENTINELS DAY OF PRAYER CONTEMPLATIVE NUNS
26, V, 2013

Dear brothers and sisters:

We celebrate this Sunday the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity. In it we confess our faith in the Holy Trinity, we adore his powerful drive and give glory to the Triune God because we can enter into the intimacy and richness of the Trinitarian life. In this Sunday, contemplate this mystery unspeakable and the whole Church is confession of the glory of God, worship and thanksgiving to the Holy Trinity, which opens its doors, introduces us to their privacy and makes partakers of the divine life .
Lest we forget that the glory of the Triune God is our deepest vocation, living as children of the Father, brothers of the Son and anointed by the Spirit, on the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity Church celebrated every year the day “Pro Orantibus” , day specially dedicated to contemplative monks and nuns. On this day, the church and each of us back them with our prayers and our affection how much we owe to these brothers and sisters, that makes your life a gift of love, a gift to the Holy Trinity and constant prayer the Church and for all of us.
The contemplative life belongs to Christianity entails deeper and has in its charter, its policy statement, his most radical justification in the Gospel, in which we read: “If thou wilt be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor and follow me “(Mt 19:21) The father of the contemplative life in the West was San Benito in the first half of the sixth century, in Subiaco, not far from Rome, built a monastery, giving life to a fraternal community founded in the primacy of the love of Christ, in which prayer and alternate work harmoniously in praise of God.
Civil Historians have highlighted the outstanding contribution of St. Benedict and the Benedictines to the formation of European culture, the advancement of agriculture, science and the arts through its monasteries. The decisive factor, however, in the life of St. Benedict is the search for God: “Quaerere Deum”. From this perspective, it is well understood that synthesizes expression of life program of his monks: “Nihil Christi praeponere love! ‘,’ Prefer nothing to the love of Christ” (Rule, IV, 21), which is more important that the family, future projects, career, money, fame or glory.
The Archbishop of Seville
From the Benedictine rule in the Middle Ages, there are many families contemplative nuns dedicated to prayer and contemplation. Our Archdiocese has the privilege of having thirty-nine monasteries, all female. They are a treasure that should never go away and we should all not only estimate and artistic values they cherish. Sometimes economic visions appear prevalently guess when the future of our monasteries. He often speaks of “add value” their buildings, pointing almost always economic returns for tourism, which can never be an immediate objective or preferential, but rather a sequel.
If we suppress the dynamism of monasteries of contemplative life, the museum would become a number in a few monuments whose beauty is dull and identity all their own: to glorify God through constant prayer of the community , the daily Eucharist dignísimamente held, the solemn and beautiful singing of the Liturgy of the Hours and the mere existence of the nuns, who reminds us that God alone is God, that God alone suffices, and show us the perennial values, as silence, the love of solitude, fraternity, mortification, gratuity, gift, hospitality, service to the poor and joy, which are the authentic values that give consistency to our lives.
But there is another aspect that I would not overlook: our monasteries are a torrent of supernatural power for the Church and for the world. St. Therese of Lisieux, a Carmelite, Doctor of the Church, one of the greatest figures in its history, died in 1897 at the age of 24, we wrote that the contemplatives are the “heart of the Church”, as per she live, pray, sacrifice and immolate, being for the world a precious wellspring of energy and supernatural fecundity, actually this invisible and intangible, but certainly the most important for those who believe in the Communion of Saints. The monks and nuns are not useless or strange, then, to the secular city, contributing in their own way, in a way which was mysterious, to building a more just, fraternal and human as God dreamed.
While I congratulate our contemplative nuns and assure them of our prayers and affection, for all my fraternal greeting and my blessing.

 + Juan Jose Asenjo Pelegrina

Archbishop of Seville

After their annual pilgrimage to the shrine of El Rocio in the Brotherhood lies in the parish of St. Giles, returned to the Basilica the wagon carrying the blessed simpecado of dear rociera corporation of the Macarena. After a moment of excitement, of reunion after the devotional journey have been met, prayed the Salve and proclaimed the cheers that reaffirm the greatness and professing love for the Blessed Virgin.

In the afternoon of May 23 was taking place in the Basilica of Santa Maria de la Esperanza Macarena, the memorial of the gift of the statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague, which was located for this solemn occasion, in the sanctuary of the altar greater. The event was attended, among others, the president of the Order of Malta in Seville, Hon. Mr. D. Fernando de Farias Merry and N ª H ª D ª María Isabel Gil-Delgado and Queralt, and members of the Governing Board of the Brotherhood, headed by Big Brother, D. Manuel García García.

Photos NHD Fernando Garcia Arcos

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Next Thursday, May 23, at 20.30 hours will be held at the Basilica of Santa Maria de la Esperanza Macarena, a Mass commemorating the delivery in 1992 of a reproduction of the Infant Jesus of Prague, created by sculptor and Zdenek academic Preclík. The mantle was embroidered by the nuns of Notre-Dame, the people of Javornik, green velvet and gold, best known reproduction of the original image, the donated by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in 1743. The Mass is organized by the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta.

The event, for twenty years, it began with a Solemn Pontifical chaired by the Archbishop of Seville Carlos Amigo Vallejo and concelebrated by Auxiliary Bishop of Prague, Frontisef Lobrowiz which gives him the Brotherhood of that reproduction Image of the Infant Jesus of Prague. Attended the event S.S.A.A. N ª H ª Ms. Esperanza of Bourbon and NHD. Pedro de Orleans, the then Deputy Prime Czech, Josef Miklosko, the editor of the newspaper “Vecernik Praha” Fidelis Schelee, sponsor of the event, the Mayor of Prague, at that time, Milan Konar, and the Mayor of Seville, during the holding of the Expo 92, D. Alejandro Rojas Marcor.

Among the events organized, held a Military Band Concert Prague Castle consists of seventy-three professors and who played the processional marches: “Esperanza Macarena”, “Pass the Virgen Macarena” and “Anniversary Macareno”.

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At the Shrine of Our Father Jesus of Health and the Virgin of Sorrows, held last May 21, the Eucharistic ceremony organized brotherhoods your station doing penance in the early morning of Friday. Began with the celebration of Holy Mass was officiated by Rev. Fr. Mr. D. Francisco Moreno. At the end, we proceeded to the exhibition and veneration of the Blessed, with cloistered procession and concluding with the singing of the Salve Regina. The ceremony ended with the coexistence in the sorority house of Gypsies Corporation that organized the celebration of the Eucharist.

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Our corporation received in the doors of the Basilica de la Macarena, the pilgrims of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Rocio de la Macarena, which lies in the parish of St. Giles, who began their pilgrimage to Almonte village where worship the Queen of the Marshes.

Rociera The delegation was received by a delegation of the Governing Board, chaired by the president D. Manuel García García, who wanted the best of the ventures and shared the prayer before the cart carrying the beloved simpecado the Brotherhood.

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