‘Diversity’in our times: priest decides to come out and publish it

He’s the kind of priest these days, a priest who finally decides to come out.

The priest’s story is worth sharing as it’s true-to-life, but I didn’t write it. It’s from one Fr. Alvaro whose testimony came out in a South Australian Catholic publication.

Coming out, Fr. Alvaro wrote:

“As you hear, this year I decided to come out. After seeing so many people who show off their ‘diversity’and applaud them and say "how brave", and so on. I asked myself the question and why not me? So I made my decision, this year Father Álvaro would come out of the closet.

“I made up my mind and took my cassock out of the closet, starting in January I started using it daily from morning until before bed. Just like that, without solemn announcements, without giving it much thought, without giving prior explanations. Without seeking praise for it and without fear of mockery and insults or strange looks.

“What was my surprise? Many

“First: I never thought that wearing a daily cassock could make me so happy as a priest. It has made it easier for me on the street to do as much good as I could not have imagined. I have blessed, advised, helped, I have confessed so many people with whom confidence was given as they see me in a cassock.

“Second: To my surprise, even walking in very diverse places such as the shopping center, the cinema, restaurants, parties, piñatas, the red zone in the center of the city, the book fair, etc. And having run into all the urban tribes, and all kinds of people, in 5 months I have not received any insult or lack of respect from anyone; even openly anti-Catholic people. The sad thing about this, the only serious ridicule I've received for using it was from a priest.

“Third: Sadly it is so unusual that a diocesan priest wears a black cassock that I have been generally confused with other religious orders. In these months I have been confused with: Franciscan, Augustinian, Monk, Missionary, Seminarian, Jedi Knight (not kidding), karateka, Dark, Mannequin (not kidding either). And many times I have also been mistaken for a priest, which is good. It makes me think to what a degree we have become secularized that the diocesan priest is no longer associated with the cassock in daily life.

“Fourth: For being an ‘anti-religious’society, the number of people who ask for my blessing is remarkable, and when a person asks for a blessing, makes those who are around us to ask for it as well.

“In conclusion, I am very happy that I made this decision, when I did, I thought about doing it for a year; but now I can affirm that it is something that I want to do in a stable way. It helps me, it makes me happy, it helps people find a priest and the grace of God more easily. It reminds even those far away that God continues to haunt the world; He constantly reminds me that wherever I walk I represent Jesus and his Bride the Church.

“It reminds me that evil is known to disguise itself as an ‘angel of light’, that is to say: not even the weirdos at the book fair and the dragon mission have seen the hatred and contempt in the eyes I see of the Jehovah's witnesses or other Christians when they see a priest. On the contrary, many have come close to having interesting dialogues. Even the low life dowtown have approached me respectfully to ask for my blessing. It is curious to see where hatred sprouts the most. Whoever has ears ough to hear and understand.

“In addition, it reminds me that one day I want to become a Saint: Can I imagine Saint John Bosco, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Francisco Javier, Saint Philip Neri, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Francis of Assisi without his cassock or habit? ? No; Do I want to be holy? Yes, therefore, it is good to wear the cassock.

“Wearing it confirmed a forgotten truth for me, the cassock is a sacramental, that is, it generates grace and disposes people to receive it. The clergyman (clerical shirt) is not.

“Finally, I am not going to give myself an air of grandeur by wearing a daily cassock. It does not automatically make me bigger or holier than other priests. But it helps me enormously, I invite the other priests to be brave, take their cassock out of the closet, use it more often and you will see the good you do to yourselves and souls. You will not regret it.” (End of quote.)

we need to pray for priests. In Pampanga, we are not short of holy priests (such as Fr. Deo Galang who reminds me of St. Maximillian Kolbe, but there are others who seem now treading the ways of this world.

That some priests would take the wrong path was prophesied in the revelations of Jesus Christ to mystic Maria Valtorta (1897-1961). Jesus told her:

"When the time comes, many stars will be shaken from the coils of Lucifer, who, in order to win, needs to diminish the lights of souls.

“This can happen because not only lay people, but also ecclesiastics have lost and are increasingly losing the firmness of faith, charity, strength, purity, and detachment from the seductions of the world needed to remain in the orbit of God's light.

“Do you understand who the stars I am speaking about are? They are the ones I have described as salt of the earth and light of the world: My ministers.

“Satan's piercing malice studies the way to extinguish these luminaries, that are lights reflecting My Light for the multitudes, by shaking them. If, with all the light the priestly Church is still emitting, souls are sinking deeper and deeper into darkness, the kind of darkness which will crush the multitudes when many stars fade out in My sky is obvious.

“Satan knows this and sows his seeds to prepare the weakness of the priesthood, so as to be able to overwhelm it easily in sins, not so much of sense as of thought. In mental chaos it will be easy for him to provoke spiritual chaos. In spiritual chaos the weak, faced with the flood of persecutions, will commit the sin of cowardice, denying the faith.

“The Church will not die because I will be with her. But she will experience hours of darkness and horror similar to those of My Passion, multiplied over time because it must be that way.

“The Church must suffer what Her Creator suffered, before dying to rise again in an eternal form. The Church must suffer much longer because the Church, in her members, is not perfect, like her Creator, and if I suffered for hours, she must suffer for weeks and weeks of hours.

“As she rose persecuted and nourished by supernatural power in the early times and in her best children, exactly the same will happen to her when the last times come, during which she will exist, subsist, and resist the Satanic tide and the battles of the Antichrist with her best children. A painful, but just selection.

“It is logical that, in a world where so many spiritual lights will be extinguished, there will be manifestly established the short-lived, but tremendous reign of the Antichrist, generated by Satan just as Christ was generated by the Father. Christ, the Son of the Father, generated by Love with Purity. The Antichrist, the son of Satan, generated by Hatred with the threefold Impurity.

“Like olives between the wheels of the oil press, the children of Christ will be persecuted, squashed, and crunched by the voracious Beast. But not swallowed, for the Blood will not allow them to be corrupted in spirit. Like the first ones, the last will be cut down like sheaves of ears of grain in the final persecution, and the earth will drink in their blood. But eternally blessed for their perseverance are those who die faithful to the Lord."

Yes,