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Some priests. Top '60

The grandfather's war stories Chive, early sixties.

In my town there were 3 priests, well, there were many, but in the parish were three. One young joseantonio, was the one struggling with youth, one a little larger D. Jesus, and another pastor, D. Antonio. In my early youth, between 14 and 17 years had much to do with them after that age I went to work and live in Madrid.

were the early sixties and gave us a group of kids a low floor of a house to set up a youth club, which we group many guys and girls of the town remained open and influential for many years. With joseantonio born my passion for American folk music, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Tom Paxton, Joan Baez, (at my wedding sounded We shall over come) ... which I think influenced me to enter into American culture, from cinema , Marxism (Paul Sweezy, Baran) through cultural and political movements, beatnik, civil rights movements, Vietnam, etc. This aspect would clash with my colleagues in later years rojerío whose tradition was mostly French. (The American in Spain was linked to the U.S., disparaging, I always said that there were the seventh cavalry, but also Indians)

Those were priests council, a firm commitment to the Second Vatican Council, fewer and less Latin and more local language, less paraphernalia and a closer, confessions open and problems discussed, fewer ranges ringo crosses and decorations on clothes, closer to the street, work, further separation of power ... all of which was an open window of the church in the English case allowed plenty of air to air entering the Franco regime. Those priests were good men, humanists, concerned, they were increasingly integrated into society and less on pre-and post-conciliar Church.

Now that they are so popular processions, remember that in my village had for several seasons and holidays, all holidays were religious, like other religious practices the Council, was trying to bring religion and humanism aside the saints, statues, fundamentalism, magic objects that story ... and so was deleted procession San Anton, San Cristobal, La Virgen del Carmen, San Lorenzo, San Sebastian, Our Lady of Grace, the Easter ... with both women apparatus black men with blankets and wands and sometimes caps, with drums and trumpets, with civil authorities and priests always together behind the images.

Processions got deleted, and remove statues from churches, and to approach the people's concerns and problems. In his work entered the recommendations of critical books and searching the discussions and reflections, the mentoring of young and old, the most of the time next to and not above. I remember comments about the campaign of 25 years of peace Franco, led by Fraga (1964) and subsequent referendum in 1966 on the Organic Law of the State, which sought to make all tied up and securely fastened. That referendum in which there were places that appeared more votes than the electoral body.

After many years came new life to the people and reappeared processions everywhere and blankets and pre-and post-conciliar priests, Vatican II was exiled, priests who walk behind the images with the authorities, and novenas and rosaries and prayers and gowns and flowers to Mary, and other tourists watching them have fun , but there are fewer people in churches and seminaries.

Those three good priests resulted in three good people of his time and managed to marry and become decent people with their existential problems and internal contradictions as every mother's son. And left a trail that many still remember, educate and influence individuals pushing towards humanism and not magic, helped people in their immediate problems, among which was the spirit, open your eyes to other realities different from that darkness and repression nacionalcatolicismo medieval and supported personal commitments ... Thanks, it was lucky to meet you.