A parish priest climbs to the top of the roof of his parish to bless the neighbors

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Dressed in liturgical clothing and facing an image of the Blessed Sacrament, including an altar table, the priest of Arroyo de la Luz (Cáceres) has risen this noon to the top of his parish to bless the entire municipality from above . This locality (5,500 inhabitants) is the most plagued by the coronavirus in the whole of Extremadura (ten confirmed deaths, most users of the nursing home) and was the first in this region -before the Alert State was decreed- where the confinement.

The day before his initiative, the parish priest announced to the neighbors to follow him in this special blessing from his windows and balconies, and also through social networks - in his particular 'Corpus Christi' , which was broadcast live to Through social networks and a radio station in charge, from where I encourage all those affected in these difficult days. "If we are introducing the Lord to the houses through the Internet, now we are going to make the ninth from the roof, " he assured his parishioners to warn them on Tuesday.

Dressed in white liturgical clothing, which included a microphone, and in front of an image of the Blessed Sacrament, and where he had also placed a camera to record the entire act, which included an altar table on the roof of the parish of Our Lady of the Assumption , the Extremaduran priest has assured that he was inspired by the idea of ​​other priests in Italy, although those dedicate themselves to walking the Custody of Christ through the streets of their cities.

In any case, he explained that it was "easy to get on the roof and I have not been in any danger because we have stairs and there is a hallway upstairs, so I was not scared ", he described in detail his actions to alleviate the concern raised about the risk that his initiative entailed. In addition, he clarified that in his young years he was a bricklayer so he is used to this type of tours.

"I have been doing it for days without any problem", although until yesterday it was not scheduled officially (at 12 noon), in an act that lasted approximately twenty minutes and from the highest point of the parish granted the blessing "to the parishioners that at those moments they are in the windows and on the balconies of the houses of the town "and in order to " give strength and hope "to the neighbors , very affected and who are already for many days in social isolation and with the exit and entry accesses to the municipality controlled by the Civil Guard.

The priest has also dedicated the blessing to a nearby town, that of Santiago de Alcántara , another focus of death from the virus in this area of ​​the province of Cáceres .

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