“Does it give me a hug?”: Priest excites Pope Leo XIV

This Thursday a Spanish priest starred in an emotional episode with Pope Leo XIV when he approached to ask him, as a son does with his father, to give him a hug.

This happened at the end of the meeting that the Pontiff had with the priests in charge of the vocational pastoral and formation of the seminarians, which took place at the Auditorium Coniliazione of Rome in the framework of the jubilee of the seminarians and priests.

The meditation of the Holy Father was completed, the Spanish priest asked to approach the Pope, who, without suspecting what would come, asked if the presbyter was uploading on behalf of all. “Remember, one represents all of you,” says Leo XIV to the attendees.

The priest tells him that he is from Castellón and, although the emotion leads him to say that the Pope visited this city when he was “General of the Jesuits”, the presbyter continues and tells him that “23 years John Paul II has appointed me Monsignor, two years after my ordination.”

Simultaneously, he extracts two white solideos and asks him: “Bless the one you want, or put it on and that’s it, and it changes me holiness,” laughing laughs with your spontaneity.

Leo XIV plays one of them and then returns it to the priest, who insists: “Does it give me a hug, holiness, please?” What followed was the descent of the Pontiff to approach the presbyter and give him a big hug, patting between them.