“Why don’t you cure?” It is the question that gives name to a streaming cycle conducted by several seminarians of the Archdiocese of Córdoba (Argentina) with the purpose of opening a space so that young people can reflect on their vocation.
In each broadcast, the seminarians share their vocational experience and open a space for dialogue with guests, seeking to enrich the conversation about the subject. To do this, they summon young people who share their doubts, priests, religious and consecrated.
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The idea arose in 2024, around the week of prayer for priestly vocations. “We wanted to propose a new way to reach those places where we were not arriving in the Archdiocese, to share with young people, with communities,” said Seminarist Luis Grippa in dialogue with ACI Press.
The pilot test had very good scope and impact, and thus the proposal to repeat it in 2025 and extend it for longer “having already seen some fruits throughout that time, we decided to do it this year again, also giving it other perspectives, other ways with new guests and others,” he said.
The answer was unanimous: “There was a whole yes,” he recalled. “There we could verify that there was a need to reach communities, young people, and this format allowed us to get a little more,” he acknowledged. With the support of Radio María, he already had his first broadcasts in August and continues during September.
The name of streaming, explained the seminarian, arises from “the question we all ask ourselves”, and thought that “I had a good marketing.”
As for what they expect from the cycle, the seminarian said that the desire is “to continue motivating this vocational culture and above all to provoke this question, or at least ask this question that once came to us came to us about the priestly life, and also share our experience and our life, our vocational process with those young people who are thinking about it or that perhaps never asked them”.
God dreams plans for young people
The seminarian Joaquín Reyna, on the other hand, rescued the importance “enable, so to speak, the question for the vocation. That young people can discover that their life makes sense, that God dreams plans for them and that their greatest dream is that we can find together the project that it has for us.”
On the other hand, they seek to motivate “lose their fear of the question for the vocation, be it for the priestly vocation, be it for any other vocation”, and remind young people that “we do not lose anything, quite the opposite: we win when we ask God what dreams of our lives.”
“God is not going to ask us anything crazy, but asks us to considerate the desires that are also in our hearts,” he said. Therefore, “the clearest invitation to young people is to look at their hearts and look at the wishes that God wakes up there”; synthesized.
In that sense, he considered that the program can be useful because it allows “to see that other young people like them have been encouraged to ask the question, who are in a path of discernment and that it is possible to answer Jesus and seek by his side the project for our lives.”
“We believe that with our testimony, without counting anything other than our own life, our own experience, it can be a contribution to discernment and the question for the vocation that many young people can be doing,” he summarized.
Know the first -hand priestly vocation
On the other hand, they intend to show “without much makeup”, what is the priestly vocation, “how a seminarian lives, what this means to be called to be a cure”, so that young people know the reality of first hand, through the testimony of those who are living it.
The first fruits of this initiative are not only seen in those who approach with the priestly restlessness, Grippa said, but also in the issues that are played in streaming, which “later they are issues that are resumed in personal talks with young people, where they see normally what is happening to them, because it also happened to us, an identification in the processes of young people with ours, or with the guests who go”.
This allows “a much more real and concrete closeness”, while offering “a dialogue with culture and the social reality that young people inhabit today,” he said. Being able to be in those spaces, in the digital world, carrying a vocational testimony, is to provide them with “one more option of so many”, betting in this case the digital mission, taking into account, according to the teaching of Pope Francis, “the way of living those spaces.”
Among the guests of the cycle was the Archbishop of Córdoba, Cardinal Ángel Rossi, who considered the space as “a way of being close.” Within that framework, he reminded the listeners and viewers who in the close relationship with God “we have the right to kick”, that is, to claim and speak to him as a friend.
Those who wish to follow the program Why don’t he cure? They can connect every Tuesday in September at 9:00 p.m. @Radiomariatorentinaand also listen to it on Radio María.
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Julieta Villar
I am a journalist, a graduate in Communication from the National University of La Matanza in Argentina. I have work experience in non -governmental organizations. Since 2016 I dedicate myself to Catholic journalism, first in the Argentine Catholic Information Agency (AICA) and, since 2022, as a correspondent for ACI Press for Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia.