A priest doesn't bring bad luck!

This morning I went to confess and give communion to an old woman, sick, forgotten by everyone and everything at the hospital.

When I came out, I chatted for a while with a fellow villager and saw a car with three people with dark faces approaching me quite dangerously… Inexplicably, I felt that something was wrong with those people. When they reached me, the youngest one mocked me:

– Father, I met you and I’m going to have a car accident…

If he had slapped me, it wouldn’t have hurt as much…

I looked at him sadly and said: “May the Lord help you… may He protect you.”

The man, thinking that I had said something bad to him, went on cursing and cursing me.

I told you all this, not to blame the unfortunate person in question, but because it is a good opportunity to talk about the presence of the priest in the community and about heresies and superstitions.

The priest can NEVER bring anything but blessing and healing.

A priest will NEVER bring bad luck or suffering to anyone. NEVER!

All heresies, all superstitions, all the nonsense related to a possible bad luck or misfortune that could occur at the simple meeting with a priest, are inventions meant to make people stay away from the servants of the Holy Altars, possibly from the communist times (although, even nowadays we live in a form of neo-communism) in Romania.

I have only one question for those who believe that meeting a priest brings them bad luck: meeting a demon, what do you think it brings you?!

Any priest has indeed received the power to bind and loose, everything that happens to the people.

But here his will intervenes.

The priest is a spiritual Father for all.

He is the refuge of the persecuted, the help of the deprived, and the secret confessor of those burdened with sins and temptations.

The priest is Father! It is in vain that you say Father (some also say Mr. Father), if you do not respect what he represents and is the ordained fact.

I will end by saying just that.

Meeting a priest is a blessing. Rejoice that we meet again! The time will come (and it is not far off) when you will look for a priest, but you will have nowhere to go.

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