This is an excerpt from the full interview on The Life of a Priest, a podcast available in the Tabella Catholic App.
Father Manny Alvarez is the pastor of the Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables, Florida. In this excerpt he shares his views on the first assignment of a priest and compares it to a ‘first love’.
I always equate it with your first love. You always remember your first crush, your first love, and that always is the first parish of a priest. Whenever I visit there, I say, this is where I learned to be a priest. This is where I learned to be a Father, that you all taught me how to be a Father.
