When he was a child, he wanted to be a priest. He played at celebrating mass and repeated, over and over again, "for Christ, with him and in him", even with the same tone with which priests pronounce it. Carlos Alberto Juarez (35), a native of Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico), recalls that he lost that restlessness as he grew older. Although he was always "captivated" by the priesthood. Today he is a priest and a student of Biblical Theology at the University of Navarra.

In that impasse in which, despite continuing to attend the Sunday Eucharist, he had lost interest in the priestly ministry, he studied the degree program Technical Accounting at the University of Northern Guanajuato. He even made his first foray into the world of work.

One Sunday when he went to the parish, he read a brochure with information about a prayer workshop. He began to attend and that's when he made the decision to transform that "game" he had spent so much time playing as a child into project : "My brothers got married and I had a strong meeting with God. I said, 'What do you want from me?' It was clear to me then".

He is aware that in his life, as in Abraham's, it is God who provides. And he recalls how much knowing the lives of St. Paul and St. Augustine helped him in his learning process: "They also had a plan for their lives, according to their calculations and criteria, until God came in and gave them a 180-degree turn Degrees".

She comes from a Catholic family. Of his five siblings, only one did not understand his decision at first. When he told his mother, she told him: "If it is your decision, take it seriously". So he did: at the age of 23 he entered the seminar in Celaya, where he remained until he was 28 years old, studying at programs of study Philosophy . And it was in March 2011 when the President of the seminar offered him to come to study at the University of Navarra the high school diploma in Theology. During his stay in Spain he lived at the high school Bidasoa Int ernational Ecclesiastical. He was ordained a deacon in the parish of San Nicolas in Pamplona in April 2015 and, a few months later, returned to his home country.

Now, he has returned to School. He says that the two years he has been a vicar in the diocese of Celaya (Mexico) have allowed him to see that the life of a priest is demanding. However, "the training that I received in Bidasoa has helped me a lot in my ministry. It has put in me the instructions that I am now polishing".

sample He is very grateful to the benefactors who made his priestly training possible, because it was thanks to them that he was able to receive his formation: "I have always studied with scholarship. The sacrifice of other people moved me to make a great effort. The submission and generosity of the people invite me to continue to grow".