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RIO DE JANEIRO – Acting Governor Cláudio Castro attended a mass this Sunday morning at the Santa Rosa de Lima Parish, in Barra da Tijuca, West Zone of Rio. A Catholic and also a singer, Castro played the guitar at this Sunday’s celebration and sang at various times. , as during the withdrawal of the offering and the Eucharist. Always wearing a mask, only during songs is the protection element removed.
Castro participates in the songs throughout the celebration. Singing as the first voice in most songs, he shares the microphone with two other people and is accompanied only by a guitar. During communion, a quieter moment of the celebration, some faithful film and photograph Castro while the acting governor sings.
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In the sermon, Father Marcelo Araújo affirmed that to be a Christian and Catholic it is necessary to do good works outside the church:
– We often give in to money and power. Our salvation is not in earthly goods. What good is it that man wins everything in this world and loses dignity, personal ethics? Asked the priest. – It is not enough to be a Catholic Christian only in church and in the family. I have to be a Christian in my academic and professional life.
Church functions
Cláudio Castro has specific functions in the Church, such as participating in the liturgy and singing at Masses. It was through religion that he came to politics. It all started at the Youth Encounter with Christ. In 1998, with Father Zeca, he participated in the Deus é Dez movement. There he became friends with Márcio Pacheco, also a Catholic, whom he later became an advisor to Detran, the City Council and the Legislative Assembly.
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He tried to be a councilor in 2012, he had eight thousand votes. In 2016, with 10,000 votes, he was elected. It was Castro who led the famous Father Omar, from the São José da Lagoa parish, to Catholicism: the two studied together in adolescence and began together to attend youth meetings with Christ. He keeps the images of the meeting he had with Pope Francis, in Rome, last year, and also a third that he keeps in his pocket permanently. Born in Santos (SP), he came to Rio at the age of one year and lost his mother at three. Married, he has two children.
