José Ruy Correa is a 33 year old Brazilian priest and a student of licentiate degree in Historical Theology. He arrives punctually at quotation. He likes to chat and invest time in conversations, time to listen and time to talk about what is important. He does not run and does not show any hurry, especially when it comes to talking about priestly vocation. He assures that this is not an easy task: "Vocations are there, we only need enthusiasm to know how to look for them. Vocation is a advertisement, if it is not told, young people do not know about it. We must transmit what we live, that the priesthood is possible and that it is worthwhile. More and more vocations are coming from Protestant or non-practicing Catholic families. It's not that there aren't any, we just have to look for them.

She discovered hers on Good Shepherd Sunday, as she was preparing to receive First Eucharist in 1997. He barely remembers the words of the homily, only that he noticed how the priest was preparing the altar for the offerings. That's when he said to himself, "Why couldn't I do it?". The call so disconcerted him that, after his First Communion, he stopped going to Mass.

When he was a teenager, he began to participate in the activities of the Charismatic Renewal Movement. He resumed his participation in the Eucharistic celebrations and even once a month, which was the frequency with which they were celebrated in his parish due to the lack of priests, seemed too little to him. He learned to pray and the call resounded in his head: "There should be more priests". At that time he had a girlfriend and at home they did not imagine that his vocation was going in a different direction.

At the age of 16 he began his discernment, without saying anything to anyone. Although his friends, who knew that he had begun a quieter life and had ended his relationship with his girlfriend, imagined something. They jokingly called him "Father Marcelo," after the Brazilian priest who sang.

At 17, he joined the seminar in Nova Friburgo, in Rio de Janeiro. "I am the first diocesan priest to leave the municipality of Carmo for a hundred years," he says proudly.

He was ordained a deacon in Pamplona in the spring of 2010, while he was studying the high school diploma in Theology; and in 2011, when he returned to Brazil, he was ordained a priest. In these eight years, he has exercised pastoral work, has done mission statement, has performed bureaucratic tasks and has been five years President of seminar where he himself was formed in Brazil.

Now he has returned to the University to study theology. He assures that he owes everything he is to the training received in the two seminaries, the one in Brazil and the one in Spain, and that the high school Bidasoa International Ecclesiastical Seminary has helped him to have a universal vision of the Church. He also affirms that he felt at home there, and that, through his companions of different nationalities, he discovered the ways of being Church in each country. At the same time, he is sample very grateful for the investment and work of the benefactors in his training, because as he explains: "In order to submit our life, we priests never do it alone".

He declares that he is not much of a sportsman, so he takes more time to listen to those who need him. He is striking for his cheerfulness and kindness and tells me that at the moment he has "no plans" except to be trained, and then he will be wherever the Church needs him.