Tell us about that moment that marked your path to priesthood. What made you think about becoming a priest? When I entered the Vocational Center, I was eleven years old. It might seem strange that from such a young age I made a decision that, ultimately, commits a whole life; however, God has His ways: for me, the vocation did not come as a “flash,” a moment of grace in which I saw that God wanted me here and not somewhere else; it was different: God planted the seed of vocation in me, which gradually matured throughout my life, initially as a restlessness, like all seeds that at first give a small sprout, but over time gained strength until it became a certainty, a strong tree ready to bear fruit.

Why the Legion and not another place?
God knows how He does His things: when I started, I didn’t have much knowledge of the Legion or the Regnum Christi, I was happy because I was in seminary; however, knowledge gradually leads to conviction. Getting to know the Legion and the Movement made me convinced of them, of their mission to bring Christ to the world and to make Him known to others. God uses a thousand ways to make us see what He wants from us; in my case, it was a progressive path in which, as time went by, He revealed His plan for me more and more.

What has helped you the most in your vocation?
Wow, so many things…! Choosing one would almost belittle and not do justice to the others. The closeness of so many people who at different times have helped me more than they would believe: so many priests and Legionary brothers who directly or indirectly have helped me with their example and words, my family who over the years has always supported me in a constant and permanent way despite how much it has cost them not being able to see us as much as we would like… In short, so many people who have helped me with their words or their example.
Throughout these years, I have surely experienced difficult moments and others wonderful. Tell us something about them.
It would be recounting circumstances, perhaps very subjective aspects that for me were beautiful or difficult, and that when told, might lose their drama or beauty. The moments of doubt always appear from time to time, crises always come. However, when well used, crises are moments of overcoming. I have had many beautiful moments, and many, but the ones that leave the deepest mark are the small or big moments when I have been able to help someone, when I have been a channel for God to reach a person.

Where would you like to exercise your priestly ministry?
In a place where I can help the greatest number of people possible. I have always imagined the priest as someone who is among the people comforting, encouraging, and healing. That’s how I would like to see myself, bringing others the treasure I have found and that is capable of giving meaning to any life. Certainly, my first mission will be to help in the formation of diocesan priests in Rome; what better way to reach more people than helping to form the hearts of those who will be Christ among His people tomorrow.

What would you like to contribute as a priest to the Regnum Christi family?
What I am. I would like to contribute the little or much that God has given me to serve others; the apostolate or the place from where I do it, I know it doesn’t matter. Saint Thérèse is the patroness of missions and never left her convent; what matters is the heart and the intention, then God will indicate the where.

He was born on December 26, 1985, in Medellín, Colombia. He entered the Vocational Center in La Estrella, Colombia, on December 1, 1997, and later moved to the Novitiate of the same city in January 2003; there he made his first religious profession in February 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he studied humanities in Salamanca, Spain, and then began his bachelor’s in philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. In 2009, he began his apostolic practices in Medellín, as a prefect of studies at the Vocational Center of Rionegro. Four years later, he returned to Rome, where he obtained a license in philosophy from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in 2015, and later a bachelor’s in Theology.