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At just 4 years of age Emilio Madrid Mérida played the celebration of “Mass” at home with his stuffed animals. Now, at 16, he dreams of being a priest and says he has found happiness in the seminary in Badajoz, Spain, where he has already been for three years.
Emilio plays at celebrating “Mass” at age 4. Credit: Photo courtesy of Emilio Madrid Mérid
Speaking with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, at St. García the Abbot Parish in Algeciras, a city in southern Spain near Gibraltar where he is with his family on vacation, the young man explained that for him a vocation is “the call that God gives you to make you happy.”
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Speaking with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, at St. García the Abbot Parish in Algeciras, a city in southern Spain near Gibraltar where he is with his family on vacation, the young man explained that for him a vocation is “the call that God gives you to make you happy.”
Continued below.
From celebrating ‘Mass’ at 4 to entering the seminary at 13: Emilio’s inspiring vocation
“From a very young age, in this parish when I was four years old, I started helping at Mass. I wanted to be like the priest and at home I played at celebrating Mass with my stuffed animals,” the young man related.
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