Priests receive and deny prayer requests for Odete Roitman: ‘Very unusual’

Priests receive and deny prayer requests for Odete Roitman: ‘Very unusual’


Churchmen are using social media to speak out and demand that these types of messages stop; see details

The death of Odete Roitman moves Brazil, to the point that people ask priests to pray for her soul. In this way, clergy use social networks to make their voices heard and ask for this type of message to stop. Find out more:




Requests for help for Odete Roitman arrive from the priests

First of all it happens to the priest Gabriele Nathanvicar of the parish São Francisco de Assis, in Blumenau (Santa Catarina). In a video, published on his official page Instagramshared what happened, also showing the message. “Today I received a very unusual prayer request. A parishioner said, ‘Father, can you pray for someone who has died?’. I said, ‘Of course! What’s his name?’reported.

Another case that went viral was that of the priest Cleber Pagliochifrom Chapecó, also Santa Catarina. He, in turn, made the request via a message on the same social network. “In light of the countless messages I have received, I inform you that I will not respond to prayer requests for Odete Roitman. He is a character from a soap opera and, however much it affects popular memory, Christian prayer must always be addressed to real people and concrete situations in our lives and our faith. Let us continue to pray for those who suffer, struggle and need consolation and hope – and also so that fiction never replaces the true compassion that comes from the Gospel”he wrote.

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Details in the scenes can reveal the real culprit

Hear Roitmann (Deborah Bloch) is dead. The public witnessed, on Monday evening (6), one of the most anticipated scenes of the remake of Everything is fine: the assassination of the powerful businesswoman at the Copacabana Palace, a Rio de Janeiro. The sequence, which saves one of the greatest mysteries of Brazilian television fiction, has rekindled collective curiosity and, obviously, has become a topic of discussion on all social networks. Just like in 1988, the public now wants to know: Who killed Odete Roitman? and read the full article.

Source: Terra

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