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Alessandro Lovato - Vancouver Seminarian
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My decision to spend a year at the seminary came about due to a combination of things. I was born and raised a catholic and even from my early years I felt a special love for my faith.
Devotion to the Mass coupled with the strong guidance of my parents and a loving family environment rooted me in, and continues to nurture, my faith. What my parents taught me, what the Church teaches, and what I personally feel to be the truth are one and the same, and it is this harmony that makes the faith seem like a natural thing to me. |
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Parish priests and parishioners in living the faith fervently have inspired me to live the faith and so to become a beautiful person as they are. Throughout my high school years I felt a stirring, what can perhaps be best described as a feeling of restlessness. This feeling persisted throughout my university years as something that came and went, but always returned. The feeling was one of longing for something more, of looking for something that would give me satisfaction and give my life more meaning. I guess that we all long for the same things, although we attain them through different means and by different paths, and so I decided to give the seminary a try for a year to see if God might be calling me to the priesthood. I must admit that I have struggled with this issue and that this decision was quite difficult for me to make but I have slowly come to realize that it was a necessary one in order to secure my future happiness. Every vocation has its hardships and difficulties and in being open to any possibility I know that God will guide me to my true vocation, to what will make me truly happy on this earth and in the life to come.
Sincerely,
Alessandro Lovato
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