If you would go back to your childhood, what would you do?

I do not have much to ask for or wish for when I go back to childhood because I can say that I have a complete one. But if I were given a chance to turn back from today, I would wish that my family had shown me the religious life earlier. My family is religious in the sense that we would be attending the Celebrations of the Mass weekly and its days of obligation.

I wanted to be an acolyte or a lector since I was a kid. We just found it very difficult for us since we will be having a conflict of schedules for our studies. I had been inspired by the Homilies of our parish priests, which in turn became foundations of my “Calling.”

Strict discipline had been imposed to us (to me together with my two siblings) by our parents especially our mother when we were still young. Our parent formed us from different etiquettes, social graces, education and religious practices. At first I didn’t like it but when I grew up, I realized that these things were the training grounds of my desire to enter the seminary.

I am very grateful to grow up in a family where faith and love is the building block of freedom and courage to conquer our Goliaths in life. At present, I am not used to being away from home but God will always be with us and will always lead us to the right path as long as we make the right decisions.