Suffer the Children: Porfis, The Patron Saint of Karma

Por FavorThe reason that he was called Porfis is so sad. However, that is life. It is what it is. That phrase was burned into his mind. Porfis said it all the time about anything traumatic and brutal. His true name is Jesus Christian Porfirio Escalante. His mother is a devout Catholic, and so that is why she named her boy Jesus Christian Porfirio. The nickname Porfis came from the traumatic murder of his mother. The murder was committed by his father in front of Jesus. His father told him to beg harder to save his mother’s life. So, the little boy Jesus became known as “Porfis.” It was because when the coroner came to take his mother away, the little boy, with his mother’s blood running down his face, was still screaming, “Porfis papa, porfis,” short for “Por Favor.”The murder had happened in Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua. Thirty-plus miles from Deming, New Mexico. The murder is known well in Mexico and the southern states of America. It was famous because of the brutality of the murder in front of a child. It became a thing of legends, like “Candyman” or “La Llorona.” Poor Porfis never had the chance of having an everyday life. His father was killed in a shootout with the Federales that came to the murder scene. Porfis lost both his parents that day. He never thought about his father; he did not care about that evil man. “Porfis,” thought about his mother every day. The smells of blood, and gasoline, and the chainsaw. The salty iron taste of her blood in his mouth. The scream of him, his mother, and the scream of the chainsaw echoed in his head as background noise to his daily life. Some people like to say that time heals all wounds. Time makes grief bearable. They were wrong. Porfis suffered every day of his life. It was as real today as it was 30 years ago. That little eight-year-old boy “Porfis” remembered everything. How could he forget? He had a photographic memory. Jesus survived by trying to separate himself from Porfis as a coping mechanism.As traumatic as that sounds, Porfis grew up to be a quiet boy. He did well in school and was well-behaved. He made his Abuela proud as he served as an altar boy. Porfis attended seminary, and instead of being a priest, he became a teacher. He worked as a youth pastor at an Episcopal church. It made his Abuelita happy. Porfis hid his trauma well. He also hid his experiments with grief therapy well. The animal experiments helped Porfis with the trauma of life that he so cleverly hid over the years.Porfis had to deal with bullies in his family and life at school, church, the store, and the park. He had a way of dealing with bullies in a very subtle way. So subtle that they never knew Porfis was the driver of their karma. The bullies never connected the two. Porfis is seen as a weak and broken thing. Never did people see him any other way but a broken spirit. All the years of charitable deeds went unnoticed. All the challenging work of helping others went by without so much as a thank you until Porfis became the harbinger of karma.Other less fortunate souls would find Porfis out and tell him their stories and ordeals. When they confessed their trials to Porfis, karma found a way to make things right.

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