There is not an event or an academic act in the Schools Ecclesiastical that does not count on the partnership of the students, and he can always be seen involved in the tasks of video recordings and editions. It doesn't matter if it is the 50th anniversary of the School of Theology or the celebration of the Day of the patron saint.

As the saying goes, he is a natural born greyhound. Erick Arturo Linares, a native of El Salvador, is graduate at advertising; and until he discovered his priestly vocation he was in charge of advertising and General Manager logistics in a security company business . He arrived at the University in 2014, at the age of 28, and now 32, and about to finish his programs of study in Theology, he will be ordained deacon in Pamplona on February 16.

A year before his conversion, he began to participate in the confraternity of his parish. They met on Wednesdays. Until then he had not been particularly involved in the celebrations. He had even learned about some Protestant sects from friends. But he realized that they did not fulfill him.

One day, during a celebration, his parish priest invited him to accompany the Blessed Sacrament in the procession. "I didn't know what to do. He told me, 'All you have to do is follow the Lord'. And so I did.

That phrase marked him so much that it brought tears to his eyes. "The question I kept asking myself was 'Why did you wait until now? I found the solution in Psalm 39 of the Bible," he says.

After speaking with his parish priest, he got rid of his belongings and went to seminar. There he made a commitment to the Rosary, in which he says he found "a lot of peace". A few months later, the bishop of his diocese suggested that he come to the University of Navarra for training. 

"The chapel of Bidasoa is a small Pentecost".

He says that in the chapel of the International Ecclesiastical high school Bidasoa, where he resides, he has discovered a small Pentecost, because there are reflected, through his companions from different countries, the fraternity and universality of the Church.

What struck him most when he arrived at School of Theology was the effort made by the professors to "serve the world": "They have taught me to live theology as they do. To give you an example, it is difficult to talk about penance if one has not really experienced it. These are things that are not only in a guide".

Throughout his five years at training he has entrusted himself on numerous occasions to St. Oscar Romero, who was recently canonized. "In him I discovered that to be a good priest I have to nourish myself with the people. I would not like to be an 'office priest' as Pope Francis used to say".