The Church needs holy priests who defend the faithful from ‘the dragon,’ archbishop says

[Michie]

The archbishop of Arequipa, Javier Del Río Alba, recently ordained five new priests in southern Peru, encouraging them to be holy priests who give their lives for others and defend them from the devil.

In his homily for the Mass he celebrated in the Arequipa cathedral on Sept. 29, the feast of the Archangels, the prelate referred to the battle of the angels against the devil, the dragon in the Book of Revelation.

The devil seeks the damnation of mankind, which the archbishop described as “a battle that is going on and will continue until the end of time” against “humanity and especially against the Church,” because the demon cannot bear that men and women have the possibility of going to heaven.

The end of that fight, the archbishop continued, is the victory already won by “the blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ,” which the new priests, Junior René Alanoca, Martín Adán Bernales, Emmanuel García, Gino Elías Michelli, and Luis Anthony Tellez now participate in.

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Archbishop: Church needs holy priests who defend faithful from ‘the dragon’

The archbishop of Arequipa ordained five new priests in southern Peru, encouraging them to be holy priests who give their lives for others and defend them from the devil.

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[RileyG]

Praying for many more vocations to the priesthood throughout Peru!

 

[Chrystal-J]

I need a priest like that. I've been harassed by the devil most of my life.

 

[Michie]

I need a priest like that. I've been harassed by the devil most of my life.

We need bolder believers of what Jesus told us in Scripture.

 

[Chrystal-J]

We need bolder believers of what Jesus told us in Scripture.

I tried a few times to get a priest to bless my house, but the first one had a crush on me and the second one said he "didn't believe in all that". The bishop said he believed me, but couldn't help. I just decided it was my cross and I will have to offer up my sufferings regarding it.

 

[fide]

Of course “the holy Church of God needs shepherds like Jesus the Good Shepherd, who will defend them from the dragon and defend them from the empire of death”!
And she, the Church the Bride of Christ, needs mothers like our Holy Mother Mary! And the Church - lacking rightful and righteous devotion to our Blessed Mother Mary is a crippled church.
She the Church Universal is comprised of clergy and laity and ALL are "called to holiness and the perfection of holy charity." There is too much world among us and within us. And the more world, the less Jesus and the more stumbling, lukewarm, unsanctified, closeted "just-like-everybody-else"s who only confuse the witness of The New Life that was sent to and into the world. "Catholics-in-name-only" are blaspheming the Name, whether laity or clergy.

The holy Church of God needs and deserves and is owed clergy and laity worthy of His Name.
Lord deliver us from the "scribes, pharisees, hypocrites" among and within us today!

 

[Learning always]

I tried a few times to get a priest to bless my house, but the first one had a crush on me and the second one said he "didn't believe in all that".

Oh dear, there are such priests in your diocese??

 

[fide]

I tried a few times to get a priest to bless my house, but the first one had a crush on me and the second one said he "didn't believe in all that". The bishop said he believed me, but couldn't help. I just decided it was my cross and I will have to offer up my sufferings regarding it.

Your post is hard - painful - to read, Chrystal-J. Tragically it is not uncommon today! So many of our churches today, in the (apparently affluent) West are sisters of the Church of Laodicea in the Book of Revelation, chastised by the Lord Himself:

Rev 3:15 "'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!
Rev 3:16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
Rev 3:17 For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
Rev 3:18 Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
Rev 3:19 Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent.

To those suffering in this "church", the Lord writes:

Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
Rev 3:21 He who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Rev 3:22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

You are being "blessed" (it may not feel like it!) to be among the many abused ones in "churches" ruled by false shepherds who are merely "hired men" seeking not to be humble servants but rather privileged masters loving and serving themselves. May they soon repent and be saved! But you - seek the Lord always and in everything; He will hear you, and is helping you even now.

 

[Chrystal-J]

Oh dear, there are such priests in your diocese??

Yes. But, the good news is that my current priest is a decent guy.