Extraordinary Bishop Reig Pla Speaks About His “Greatest Suffering”
• “Sailing against the current makes you pay a high price. First, they discredit you, they distort your words, they mount campaigns to make you give up.”
• “If you stand with the truth, you have everything. The rest passes away, it is ephemeral, it is smoke.”
• Reig's greatest suffering is “when you don't see the truth shine in the very heart of the Church.”
• “The Lord has blessed me with much suffering. It has been the best school to learn to be like Jesus Christ.”
• About leaving the churches open during Covid, “The Church can never close. What is it, have we gone mad? A plague comes and we hide and leave people without the assistance of the sacraments?”
• During Covid: “The cathedral was always full. I celebrated every day. This now benefits us because in other places they are complaining that it is difficult for them to regain normality.”
• “The Church is experiencing a very serious internal crisis. She is sick”.
• “One of the first intuitions I had when I was appointed bishop was that I had to live with people who would help me to be in the realm of reality. So, I live with a married couple to whom the Lord has given no children. Living like this, and it's many years now, I'm not in a bubble.”
• “Once my resignation was accepted, I went to help as an assistant in the poorest neighbourhood of Alcalá.”
• “Every day I pray several rosaries and I have intercessions for all those who persecute us and hate us.”
Picture: Juan Antonio Reig Pla © Diócesis de Alcalá de Henares, #newsEhyfriekjr
