Miguel Romero was born in Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico, 36 years ago. He is currently taking his final exams for the licentiate degree in Canon Law at the University of Navarra. He says that the news that he had to face confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic left him bewildered and he found it hard to face the fact that the plans were not as he had foreseen. 

He has spent the quarantine in the residency program where he lives in Pamplona, along with fifteen other students. After these months he assumes that "sometimes we forget that the most important thing is what essentially identifies us" and assures that all this status has helped him to get closer to the human being, "in the form of solidarity, of company, of smiles". He is convinced that, as happens in a forest that has caught fire, life will renew itself and "after this darkness, the light will shine more brightly".

Miguel arrived in Pamplona in August 2017, recently ordained and without knowing anyone. During this time, in addition to training, he has been helping in pastoral work in the parishes of San Nicolás and San Ignacio, which has allowed him to get closer to Navarre's traditions and get to know its people and customs.

For this Mexican priest, two of the things he likes most about his vocation are celebrating Holy Mass and the sacrament of reconciliation. However, Miguel has not always followed the path that God marked out for him, because between the ages of 10 and 15 he stopped praying and going to church. Although he is convinced that his vocation has been with him since he was six years old and thanks to the fact that his mother always protected the Catholic training by taking him to a high school of the Incarnate Word Order.

The appearance of a tumor in his brain when he was 16 years old made him begin to search for God and join his parish choir. "Although I admit that at the beginning I did it more to find a girlfriend than to find God," he says jokingly. And he reminds us that "we must realize that vocation is not our own thing and that without God's financial aid we are nothing".

God willing, he will soon return to Mexico and, although he is sample open to any task entrusted to him by the bishop of his diocese, he would like to dedicate himself to the training of priests at seminar: "Not because I feel totally capable, but because teaching never stops forming oneself".

Every day during the celebration of the Eucharist he prays for the benefactors who, with their financial support ( financial aid ) and their prayers, have allowed him to study so many kilometers away from his home: "If these things were not done out of love for God and for the priesthood, there would be nothing left. I see what God has done at the University of Navarre and I understand the words of St. Josemaría when he spoke of the 'Work of God.