Father Omar Sánchez Portillo, director of the Association of Beatitudes and known in Peru for his vast solidarity work, shared on social networks a moving message to his sick father.
“You are a great dad. You always were, but I must recognize that since you met and gave your life to Jesus you became a super dad, the best of all. Full of wisdom, so much strength, so much joy and generosity can only come from a man of God like you,” The priest wrote.
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“They say that the vocation of a priest,” he continued, “was born in her mother’s heart, but I am convinced that mine was born in the heart of the two.”
“You feel so proud to have a priest son that I have the great responsibility of not failing and being holy. For God Association of Beatitudes It serves hundreds of people, including babies, children, youth, adults and the elderly as abandonment; or with some ailment.
“Now you are evil again, but you are strong and there are thousands of people praying for you. I am sure that even if you are old, with ailments, in a wheelchair, in a bed you will continue to make us enjoy your presence and your spirit confident put in the hands of God. I love you. Thank you Jesus,” concludes the presbyter.
Among the multiple solidarity works led by Fr. Omar are also help to dozens of common pots in poor areas of the diocese of Lurín, the construction of housing for the most needy and a palliative care center.
During the pandemic he also helped thousands with free oxygen balls.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.