1 priest and 6 deacons are ordained on the day of the Virgin of Pilar in Getafe, Spain

The Bishop of the Diocese of Getafe (Spain), Mons. Ginés García Beltrán, presided this October 12, the day of the Virgin of Pilar, at the ordination of a priest and 6 deacons; and encouraged them to always live in God to bring him to the hearts of men and thus be light and testimony in the middle of the world.

Mons. García presided, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, the ordination of Father José Luis Martín; and the deacons Antonio Sánchez and Enrique Sebastián, these three coming from the Major Seminary.

The other new deacons are Eryk Mazur and Sergio Jiménez, Children of Merciful Love (HAM), and Emiliano Conturso and Andrés González, from the Cristo Rey Institute.

“Dear brothers, let us pray for these brothers of ours who today consecrate themselves to the Lord in the order of priests and deacons, so that they may be faithful to the call, and be light and witness in the midst of the world,” said the prelate in his homily.

Bishop García, reflecting on the gospel in which Jesus tells the disciples that he will make them fishers of men, recalled: “You are not, we are not, here by chance. It is the provident hand of God that has brought you, and from now on He will continue to do so in a special way.”

The Spanish prelate also highlighted that “it is Jesus, as always, who has the initiative. It is Jesus who climbs into Peter’s boat, as he has climbed into our lives. “Jesus takes possession and all he needs is for us to say yes in freedom.”

“The vocation is a gift that can only grow in the freedom of the human heart; in it the freedom of God who calls and that of the man who responds meet and merge. It is the mystery of the meeting of two freedoms. And from that moment begins a story – adventure – that we never know where it will take us.”

“In the follow-up there is always combat”

It is evident that when saying yes to God “not everything is clear from the beginning, immediately come the inconveniences, the personal difficulties, the conditions, the ‘this can’t be’, the ‘why me’. In the follow-up there is always combat,” the bishop warned.

For this reason, “he who carries the fire of God’s love burning in his heart cannot live in complaint or in excuse, he cannot look only at what is essential, at that for which he has been called and that gives meaning to life.”

“Evangelization, for which the Church exists, is the mission of casting the nets every day in the sea of ​​this world, of this world and not the one I imagine or the one I long for, it is to bring Christ to the heart of man and of society, is to impregnate all things with the grace of God with simplicity, but with conviction, and to do so with the certainty that Christ is by far the best.

God at the center of life

“If God is not your priority and the center of your life, you will not give to God. The priest, the deacon, must live in God and of God, his ministry must be nourished by intimate and daily contact with the Lord,” continued the Bishop of Getafe.

“Today’s man hungers and thirsts for God; Let’s not fool ourselves, you won’t settle for less. Therefore, be men of God,” he stressed.

After highlighting that the Eucharist is the most important thing for a priest and that it must also encourage the care of those most in need, the prelate encouraged turning our eyes to the Mother of God.

Bishop García asked to look “at Saint Mary, the Virgin, Mother of the Church, Mother of priests, whom we venerate here as Saint Mary of the Angels, so that she may always keep alive the rhythm of our hope, and teach us, like Her He does it, to bring men to Christ.”