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Miami priests turn to social media — and the Beatles — to reach and uplift parishioners

Cuban priest José Alvarez, the parish priest of Epiphany Catholic Church in Miami, and his assistant Alex Rivera, have become social media sensations in their ecclesiastical world.

Such is the joy that both have brought with their first “musical single” — the video on Instagram exceeds 5,000 views, and has many other views on YouTube and even momre on the YouTube page of the Archdiocese of Miami —- that their parishioners and even people from other places have asked them for one song per week.

“We’ll do everything we can. We don’t promise, but we’ll do our best,” Alvarez told El Sentinel, the Spanish-language publication of the South Florida Sun Sentinel.