Once his military service was over, Enrique Cabrera decided to be a catechist in Camagüey, a diocese in which in 1991 he would begin working on the project of founding the Missionary Childhood and Adolescence of Cuba.
“He wanted to pursue a university degree,” recalls Fide, however, they told him “that university was for revolutionaries.” “That difference from persecution is what teaches you, I believe, to choose the true path,” he points out.
Regarding the creation of Missionary Childhood in the country, Enrique Cabrera told ACI Prensa a few years ago that it all began when he received “a magazine from Venezuela called ‘Brujulita’ dedicated to Missionary Childhood. “It talked about this important children’s missionary work, which until now was not known in Cuba.”
He shared his concern with the then Bishop of Camagüey, Bishop Adolfo Rodríguez, and thus, in 1992, with four children, the first Missionary Childhood group was born in the parish of Santa Ana. This group quickly grew and the experience spread to the others. diocese of Cuba.