Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Brotherhood of San José Obrero
Saint Joseph for non-believers and especially for believers must be a source of inspiration for a full life.
José realizes that María his wife is pregnant. José, who loved María so much, decides to disown her in secret.
Joseph in a dream receives the message from the angel of the Lord and tells him that it is the work of the Holy Spirit and therefore he must receive Mary in his home.
How many times do we rush into our decisions and we don’t have calm to reflect and give opportunities to clarify things.
Joseph is obedient and a just man and when Emperor Augustus orders all his subjects to be registered to find out how many belong to his Empire, he obeys. Joseph and Mary have to do it in Bethlehem because they are from the house of David. There we already know that there was no posada and Maria’s time of delivery arrived and they had to go to take refuge in a cattle stable.
Saint Joseph did not reveal himself saying how the Son of God had consented to his mother giving birth in a stable. Herod learns of the birth of the Messiah through some astrologers from the East, the Magi, who go to Herod’s palace to ask where the king of the Jews was born.
Joseph has to flee to Egypt because Herod wants to kill the Child.
José, María and the Child run to cross the border to save the child God.
Joseph in Egypt experiences a start over, in Nazareth he was comfortable and his neighbors knew him and had his reputation.
In Egypt he had to start over and earn the livelihood of the family with his own hands.
Upon Herod’s death he returned to his land, his son Archelaus had inherited his kingdom, Joseph decides to go to Nazareth where the child God spent his entire life until he began his public life at the age of thirty. Saint Joseph is the symbol of the worker who, although tired, continued in his task and taught his Son God the carpenter’s trade.
Many times we have the experience of abandoning the task either because we are tired or because the routine suffocates us. How important it is to continue on task so that many important things are possible.
The Lord’s call to the Father’s house will come to all of us.
The time came for Saint Joseph and what a pleasant death, he died in the arms of Saint Mary and her Son God.
We ask Saint Joseph, patron saint of the good death, to help us die in peace with ourselves and with others and with the love of our loved ones.
*Club 55 Member
Chef José Andrés, known for his social work with his NGO World Central Kitchen, awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Concord in 2021, has responded harshly to the minister and leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra.
The leader of Podemos took stock of the situation in Ukraine a year after the Russian invasion and pointed out that “this war will only end with a negotiation to achieve a ceasefire or with a military confrontation between nuclear powers”.
“I regret to say that we are closer to the second scenario than to the first,” Belarra added to the media. Belarra has pointed out that it has been “a mistake” to have contributed to the “scale of war” because this has not helped Ukraine at all: “What we need to help the Ukrainian people is to open a negotiation endorsed by international organizations as soon as possible”.
Later, the Minister of the 2030 Agenda wondered if, after sending military material, the next thing would be to send Spanish soldiers to Ukraine: “It is evident that having contributed to the scale of the war has been a mistake. We have to put all our efforts, all our desire , in opening a negotiation endorsed by international organizations that achieves a ceasefire. Most wars end like this”.
A few words that the Asturian chef did not like at all, who has charged harshly against the leader of Podemos. “Mrs. Ione Belarra take a plane to Moscow. Meet Putin @KremlinRussia_E tell him to stop killing children, old people and women. Bombing schools and hospitals. Torturing civilians. Creating famines in Africa. Tell him to leave Ukraine. Ukraine defends its freedom,” José Andrés snapped at Belarra on Twitter.
A message that has caused a stir on Twitter and for which he has received comments of the type “dedicate yourself to cooking” to which he has responded: “Thank you Marc. I think I have the same right to comment and give my opinion that the rest don’t? I I’m not telling you if you know or not about football or Ansu Fati. I respect your opinion whether I share it or not… a hug”.
The president of the Provincial Council of Cádiz, Juan Carlos Ruiz Boix, and the mayor of San José del Valle, Antonio González Carretero, have participated this afternoon in the acts of inauguration of the Municipal Auditorium of the town.
The facility, whose construction has involved an investment of 1.5 million euros, is located in the Plaza de Andalucía, in the heart of the municipality and, as Ruiz Boix has expressed, it becomes a “new space, a new point of social, cultural and neighborhood meeting”, which «responds to a need that San José del Valle had, where a large-capacity space was demanded, which could host events of various kinds and serve to boost cultural and, therefore, economic, commercial and tourist activity in the municipality.
The Municipal Auditorium has been built on a plot of more than 1,200 square meters. In the place was the old kindergarten of the town, a building that was in disuse. The project, drawn up by the architect Manuel de la Rocha, has respected and maintained the façade of the old educational center, which now serves as the main entrance. The equipment, which occupies the entire blockis developed mainly on one floor, with a central body where the assembly hall is located, to which other units are attached, such as lobbies, cafeterias and toilets.
The necessary investment for its execution has been provided by the City Council with its own funds, although it has had financial support from the Provincial Council for the acquisition of the public address equipment and the audiovisual projection system through a registered grant for the amount of 120,000 euros.
In the almost four years elapsed in this corporate mandate, the provincial administration has invested more than 5.3 million euros in San José del Valle. A fact that, in the words of the president, “demonstrates that the Diputación wants to be in San José del Valle, with the neighbors of the small towns”, so that “they have the same opportunities and services as the big cities”. This investment has served to generate more than 160 contracts, recalled Ruiz Boix, «even without having direct competences in employment; carry out necessary works such as those of the municipal cemetery, the swimming pool, the dome of the church, the sidewalks in various streets, the replacement of public lighting. In short, a multitude of actions requested and proposed by the City Council, that is, they respond to neighborhood demands and show that the Provincial Council fulfills its role of supporting the development of the smallest municipalities in the province.
The Municipal Auditorium of San José del Valle has a capacity for 600 people and is multifunctional, with the intention of hosting events of various kinds. In this sense, the mayor has expressed that the construction of this building represents the “pride of an entire town.” In his words, the equipment «has all the proper characteristics to be one more resource of culture at the service of our neighbors and that is added to everything we have been doing in a municipality like ours, which deserves infrastructures like this one”, González Carretero assured.
In addition to the official opening ceremony held this Thursday, the City Council and the Provincial Council are collaborating in the organization of a program of performances that will last until next Saturday. The poster for this Friday, February 17, is made up of Juan Luis Pineda, Juanma Sánchez & friends, ‘Come over here’ and ‘Pure sound’. On Saturday the 18th they will perform ‘A Paterna por lanes’ and ‘Torre de cera’. Both sessions begin at 8:00 p.m.
In addition to the president of the Provincial Council and the mayor of San José del Valle, the third vice president and head of the Equality Area, Carmen Collado, and the person in charge of the Citizenship Development Area, Jaime Armario, among others.
The Brotherhood of San José Obrero has presented what will be the future step for the Nazarene of Charity, Christian headline of the corporation that processions every Passion Saturday. In a General Council of Accounts and Budgets, the brothers have approved by acclamation the execution of this new step, designed by Fernando Aguado Hernández, at the time also author of the titular stature.
Aguado, brother of the brotherhood, will also carry out the imagery and painting, also in charge of the workshop of Enrique Gonzálvez of the carpentry, the ornamental carving Francisco Verdugo and the execution of the goldsmithing in the workshop of Orfebrería Andaluza-Hnos. from the rivers. The inclusion of the chandeliers as the main point of light is striking. In Seville, only two iconographies of the Nazarene carry chandeliers instead of lanterns: Humildad del Cerro del Águila and Señor de la Salud de la Candelaria. To the Cabildo have attended around fifty brothersand the intention, according to sources from the corporation, is that a first phase of the step be released on Passion Saturday of 2025.
The step is conceived as an iconographic work of his dedication “LA CARIDAD”. In this kick drum design and profiles with wind fender sconces, Most of the technical disciplines at the service of ornamentation for a processional step are present: cabinetmaking, carving, goldsmithing, gold-plated sculpture, ornamental painting, easel painting, relief embroidery and trimmings. They all go in unison, complementing the ornamental elements of the Baroque style with the sculptural and pictorial iconographic program.
Technically it will not be a standard varnished carving in a single tone, but will combine different colors of wood. In this way -insists the corporation- “a great richness of colors and nuances will be achieved keeping a controlled range that will go from the dull gold of the goldsmith, passing through the earths and blacks of the ornamental carving to colors that are not strident for the imagery, the paintings and the gold stews of the fruits and flowers, trying to imitate to the inlay of wood, called this technique tarecea, in some parts of the bass drum and vents as a decorative element”.
The iconographic reading begins at the front of the passage, the vent that is traversed by a red cloth pavilion supported by sculptural cherubic angels, will have in its center, the pictorial representation of the Mystic Lamb, symbol of the Sacramental character of the Brotherhood; and just below presiding over a painting of San José Obrero.
The iconographic program of the cartouches will also be related to the charitable and compassionate action of Christ as well as the link with Saint Joseph. The following cartouches will be represented: Jesus the Carpenter, Jesus with the Children, Stoning of the Adulteress, Lord, I am not worthy of you entering my house, Healing of the Blind Man, Multiplication of loaves and fish, Wedding at Cana and Resurrection of Lazarus.
In the basket, the sculptural images of Faith and Hope as theological virtues that will accompany the motto CHARITAS of the Order of Minims that govern the Convent, the Parish Church, and spiritually direct our Brotherhood and that is why our owner received the dedication of Charity. The rear, will be the other theological virtues, Temperance and Justice, which escort the motto of Mary on a break of glory identical to the front. The rear vent will house in its central part a painting of San Francisco de Paula, the Saint of Charity, Patron of the Minims and also Head of the Brotherhood. All the paintings will be done on golden boards.
The costales follow the scheme of the lead, but in this case they will be the four evangelists who escort the breaks of glory, which in this case will keep two Latin texts alluding to Christ and his dedication. In the case of the left coast, San Marcos and San Lucas with the phrase: EGO SUM VIA, VERITAS ET VITA (I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE). On the right side will be San Juan and San Mateo with the phrase: BEATIUS EST MAGIS DARE QUAM ACCIPERE (There is more happiness in giving than in receiving), alluding to Charity itself.
The skirts will be purple velvet, the color with which the Lord is dressed for his processional exit due to its symbolic penitential character and will be adorned with brooches embroidered in gold enhancement and a perimeter braid in tonal consonance with the fringes and tassels that finish off the vents. for its final part.
José Ramón García owes his life to a dog that is no longer on Earth. To “Lady”, a Yorkshire that followed him to the mountain one of the days that he thought of ending everything. She looked into her eyes, seemed to say “stay.”
And he stayed, brave. José Ramón García is a survivor. He tried to commit suicide three times, three times he decided to live again. He is doing much better now, although he is struggling with a diagnosis of depression and anxiety. He is one of the protagonists of the exhibition “La muerte silenciada”, by photographer Daniel Lovi (Oviedo, 1986). The exhibition, which will open this Friday afternoon (7:00 p.m.) at the Mieres Centru Cultural, presents in images the stories of five residents of Las Cuencas, survivors or who lost a family member by suicide. The project will be completed with an audiovisual documentary, in which fifteen experts participate.
One of them is the psychiatrist Celso Iglesias, director of the Mental Health clinical management area at the Valle del Nalón hospital. It is not surprising, listening to the expert, that Daniel Lovi chose Cuencas to make suicide visible. “The rate is high throughout Asturias. But in the mining regions, although we do not have the latest data, it is usually even higher”.
The reasons are depopulation, aging and the lack of job opportunities in an area that was an economic engine until relatively recently. “It is important to talk about suicide, although with nuances. Always with the care that this issue requires, ”says Iglesias. He considers it essential to eliminate the taboo and end the myths. A fact that may surprise you: close to half of the people who died last year by suicide in the Cuencas had no diagnosis of mental illness.
This is not the case of the septuagenarian José Ramón García. The first time the world turned black to him, he was 10 years old. “That’s when my father died, I started to feel very sad and the ‘noise’ bothered me a lot. But of course, who was he going to tell? He was a gourd, he didn’t know how to explain it and I don’t think they would have listened to me, ”he points out.
He began working in the mine, first in the Santa Bárbara well (Turón) and then in Nicolasa (San Nicolás, Ablaña). He married the woman with whom he has shared almost his entire life: “I hurt for her, for what happens to her. In the end, I think that she suffers more from the environment than us ”. He tried to take his own life three times: “Once a man passed by where I was and we started chatting; the other time was when ‘Lady’ saved me and, the last time, my wife found me”.
Three times he was born again. But what is behind a suicide? Celso Iglesias affirms that, in most cases, “they are people who freely and more or less consciously decide to end their lives. It’s not an impulse, it’s not crazy.” The largest proportion of suicides in the Cuencas, says the psychiatrist, occur among “elderly people, who are sick and who understand that life has no meaning.”
Something similar thought José Ramón García. In a calm voice, he explains that “I don’t know how I got to that point. I know that I saw myself as in a very dark tunnel, into which no light entered.” After the last attempt, he continued with the treatment and began to go to the Association of Relatives and Mental Illness of Asturias (AFESA): “My colleagues and the people who take care of us are wonderful, they have changed my life.”
If he doesn’t leave the house, he stays in the dark with the blinds down. But she does it less and less each time: “On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays I go to AFESA. I even give a basketry workshop with students who are learning a lot”. He has been doing very well for a while now, and he expects his medication to be reduced in the coming weeks.
Isn’t it hard for you to talk about what happened?
-No. Because, even if we don’t believe it, we can all get there. That’s why you have to talk about it, that’s why you have to ask for help.
To those who now sit in the dark, he asks just to come forward. “The first step is the most difficult. Then you start treatment, therapy… whatever helps you. You can get out, in fact, you should get out of there ”. When asked for the greatest reason to live, she presses one hand against the other. He closes his eyes for a moment: “Look, many… All. What there is not, are reasons not to live”.
