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PADIS Project for the LGTBI Brothers. 

In September 2017, a few dreamers from La Palma, Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria came together to ask ourselves, from the demand of the project of Jesus of Nazareth, what we could offer to the LGTBI brothers and sisters (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual and Intersex) with whom we shared this piece of Spanish geography at this concrete moment in history. We did not want to wait for them to knock on our door and offer them our help, we bet on "primerear" and offer our house so that it would be a "friendly space" where no one would feel strange and where everyone would feel welcomed. It was not easy, there were many sessions of study, debate and discernment before the Lord that preceded the birth of the project of Pastoral of Sexual Diversity - PADIS.

The years 2017 and 2018 were fundamentally to study this reality and to carry out a couple of pilot experiences that would allow us to test the response of LGBT people and those who, in some way, feel linked through a family member or friend or because they want to help include these brothers and sisters of ours in the community of the disciples of the Master Jesus.

In January 2019 we jumped into the limelight with a simple program that far surpassed all our expectations. The program was articulated in three areas: formation, sensibilisation and accompaniment. For the first we held a cycle of conferences to know, with academic rigor, the reality of sexual diversity; the second had two moments charged with soul and color: the vigil against homophobia and the retreat "to love, accompany and serve LGBTI people in key of hope" and, the third, which is filling our agendas with requests for accompaniment both in the islands and in the Peninsula.

Among the many people who went through the activities, I would like to highlight Chicha's participation in the June retreat. She, a transsexual who has suffered the harshness of life since her earliest childhood, filled us with joy, hope, hope, forgiveness and a deep trust in the God of Life who welcomes us and loves us as we are. Her words, her smile and her generous spontaneity spoke to us of God's tenderness and filled us with reasons to wait.

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