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Fr Robert Reyes, popularly known as The Running Priest, joined Friends of Kian Lloyed delos Santos in a run Friday morning, August 25, to the Caloocan police station where the officers who killed the high school student are assigned.
Reyes arrived at the Delos Santos residence, where the wake for the senior high school student is being held, around 7 a.m. He was then joined by friends of the slain youth, wearing white shirts with the message, “Justice for Kian,” in the run to Police Community Precinct 7.
There, Reyes blocked a departing patrol car, allowing it to proceed only after he had blessed it and shared with its passengers his wish for an end to the killings of drug suspects.
He then entered the precinct to pray for and bless the detainees.
From the police precinct, Reyes said mass for the teenager.
What millenials need to know about Fr. Robert Reyes....
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Fr Robert Reyes, popularly known as The Running Priest, is from Malabon, the eldest in a family of four, studied AB Philosophy in Ateneo de Manila University, joined the San Jose Seminary and ordained into priesthood in 1982. Presently he is the parish priest of the Holy Sacrifice Church in UP Diliman.
Running wasn’t really Fr Robert’s sports since childhood. However when he contracted tuberculosis a year before the joined the seminary, his doctor told him that if he really wanted to recover and stay away from TB he must become almost an athlete. He had to develop his cardiovascular abilities. “I had to learn to bike, to run and to swim regularly. In the seminary there was a swimming pool, lots of open space for running and there was a bicycle. So talagang doon, sineryoso ko na. From 1970 up to the present, I run, I swim, I bike,” said Fr Reyes.
“Why The Running Priest?” The title was born in 1996 when he started running publicly. The media named him “The Running Priest” because he runs to bring attention to issues he is passionate about such as protecting the environment, speaking out against graft and corruption in the government, abolition of the Death Penalty and cancellation of the Debts of the poor countries such as the Philippines. Fr Robert says the title has become more and more used that “people will recognize me on the streets, but they don’t know my name. I don’t know if I am really happy about that. It makes me feel like I have become a commodity, but on the brighter side a symbol of a movement both within the Church and society.”
In 1996 Fr Robert hit the headlines: Priest to run cross-country, Takbo para sa Kapayapaan, Kalikasan at Kalayaan. For the next three years he covered Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The thought of running the entire archipelago dawned on him in 1995. “It came as an isolated inspiration. I was just running one day and the Centennial celebration of our independence came to mind. I thought of doing something that would have a national impact, that would contribute to a deeper consciousness of being Church and of our being Filipino. National impact? Takbuhin ko ang buong Pilipinas. ‘What a crazy idea.’ I laughed at myself. I was 40 years old at that time. I was not old neither was I young. At forty, I decided to run the whole Philippines?!”
Watch Fr. Reyes as he prayed over the police cops vehicle and inmate in Police Community Precinct 7 in Caloocan
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