{"id":16810,"date":"2018-12-31T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/?p=16810"},"modified":"2023-07-10T18:13:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T22:13:47","slug":"legions-first-filipino-father-leads-mission-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/legions-first-filipino-father-leads-mission-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Legion&#8217;s First Filipino Father Leads Mission Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI remember going to school early one morning and seeing a middle-aged man by the roadside naked, covered in dirt, famished, his hair disheveled, and his eyes wandering aimlessly as though he were all alone without any hope or support. This, together with many other encounters with the poor strongly beckoned me to dedicate my life to them.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those are a just few words from the vocation story of Fr. Luis Lorenzo, LC. But they go to the heart of what let him to the path of the priesthood.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luis&nbsp;came to the United States to attend university in 2004, carrying with him a determination to serve the poor.&nbsp; But that year turned out to be a remarkable one for the future priest.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Friday after confession, the priest asked Luis if he was thinking about becoming a priest,&nbsp;\u201cBecause the way you confessed your sins reveals your great desire for the happiness of others, something that God alone can truly bring.\u201d\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luis said he was open to the idea. And the priest said, \u201cLuis, just remember, the sooner you respond to God\u2019s call in your heart, the sooner the people who are farthest away from Him, who need Him, will find Him too.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. Luis believes that is the moment God called him to the priesthood. And the call would soon become more specific.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He&nbsp;met&nbsp;Regnum Christi&nbsp;that year. And browsing in the bookstore&nbsp;of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception&nbsp;in Washington,&nbsp;he discovered a book about the Legionaries of Christ, which then led him&nbsp;to contact the Legionaries of Christ in Cheshire, Connecticut.&nbsp;He was soon on his path to become a Legionary of Christ.&nbsp;Today, his path has taken him to the Philippines, where he works with high school boys and college students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mission Youth \u2013 Philippines (MYP)&nbsp;is the&nbsp;overarching apostolate for Regnum Christi&nbsp;youth work (high school and college young men and women)&nbsp;in the Philippines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/44993912_1152769821556679_1899068494855536640_o-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16815 lazyload\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/44993912_1152769821556679_1899068494855536640_o-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16815\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMission Youth \u2013 Philippines (or&nbsp;MYP)&nbsp;gives young people the opportunity to learn from the faith of the poor, and in turn, share their faith with them. It also&nbsp;gives everyone the opportunity to grow in compassion, charity and service towards one other,\u201d&nbsp;says Fr. Luis Lorenzo, current director of MYP.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The young missionaries&nbsp;come from different high schools and universities in Metro Manila. They spend quality time with poor&nbsp;communities for \u201cwhole day missions\u201d, about three times a year,&nbsp;or \u201cHoly Week Missions\u201d. They bless&nbsp;homes, pray&nbsp;with&nbsp;families,&nbsp;teach catechism to children,&nbsp;and invite people back&nbsp;to the Sacraments&nbsp;and other activities of the parish.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMYP&nbsp;first&nbsp;brings focus to&nbsp;any good one&nbsp;desires or tries&nbsp;to bring, that is, to help the other person make an experience of God who is real, God who is near, God who is Love,&#8221;&nbsp;Fr.&nbsp;Luis said. \u201cOne&nbsp;then also become&nbsp;part of that experience, allowing&nbsp;God&nbsp;to transform&nbsp;his&nbsp;heart into one like His. An apostle is one who brings Christ and not himself.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSecond, Regnum Christi becomes a team and family with whom I&nbsp;can grow, learn from, and work with in bringing the Good News. Being in a community gives me much strength, support, and value as a person.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. Luis is MYP director, but he hardly works alone.&nbsp;Part of the MYP team are&nbsp;Fr. Mauricio Guajardo, LC, Regnum Christi Consecrated Women&nbsp;Claire Umali,&nbsp;Gudelia&nbsp;Guerra and Amanda Eckert,&nbsp;two RC Mission Corps volunteers,&nbsp;and&nbsp;student&nbsp;volunteers&nbsp;from&nbsp;Everest Academy Manila, De la Salle Zobel School, and several universities in Metro Manila.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/44985071_1152769978223330_7519686539211702272_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16814 lazyload\"><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1016\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/44985071_1152769978223330_7519686539211702272_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16814\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think our work in MYP makes evangelization more real, more human,\u201d Fr Luis said. \u201cWe all learn to love our Lord in the least of our brothers and sisters, and they&nbsp;love and care for us in return, regardless of background or social status. It is an exchange of the many blessings God has given to all of us, especially our faith.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMYP contributes to what Cardinal Tagle consistently encourages Filipinos to create and protect against the dangers of secularism&nbsp;and injustice&nbsp;\u2013 a culture of caring.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Card-1024x683-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16817 lazyload\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Card-1024x683-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16817\"><\/noscript><figcaption>Fr. Luis Lorenzo, LC with Cardinal Tagle<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Measuring the success of MYP in&nbsp;objective terms is difficult. But Fr. Luis shared a story of&nbsp;an&nbsp;even greater value:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLast Holy&nbsp;Thursday, I&nbsp;celebrated the Mass of the Last Supper for the very first time as a priest. In fact, the poor community&nbsp;we were in&nbsp;had&nbsp;also never had&nbsp;a priest&nbsp;be&nbsp;with them during Holy Week.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the moment&nbsp;of the Washing of the Feet, I took off my outer priestly garments and bent over to wash the feet of twelve elderly men. You could tell that this was also a first time for them&nbsp;as they took off their sandals. They had&nbsp;all&nbsp;come in from a hard day\u2019s&nbsp;work in the field or in the marketplace.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bending over to wash the first man\u2019s feet, I saw how unattractive they were, how tried, and dry, and dirty they were. Then it hit me strongly. This man\u2019s feet were also my feet, my life; and I was washing his feet because our Lord had first washed mine.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t just water pouring down upon this man\u2019s feet from the small plastic pitcher I held. So were my tears. And it became so hard to move and wash the next man. But when I finally stood up from having washed these twelve humble men, I saw that I wasn\u2019t the only one crying. That mass was touching them profoundly.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somehow, in some way, we all believed that Jesus had come among us. In the words of one of them, \u201cFather,&nbsp;<em>binisita&nbsp;kami&nbsp;ni&nbsp;Hesus<\/em>,\u201d that is, \u201cFather, Jesus came to visit us.\u201d&nbsp;It\u2019s hard to express how I felt after that. But how strong the faith of the poor is! I know I can say that their faith strengthens my own.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Father<\/em><em>&nbsp;Luis Lorenzo LC was born in Manila, Philippines on April 3, 1986. He is the second of four children. He attended Xavier Elementary School and the Ateneo de Manila High School, both Jesuit institutions, before moving to&nbsp;<\/em><em>the United States&nbsp;<\/em><em>to earn a college degree. In the summer of 2004, he entered the Legionary Novitiate in Cheshire, Connecticut and made his first profession of vows on September 2, 2006. He earned a&nbsp;Bachelor\u2019s&nbsp;degree of Philosophy at the Legionary Center for Higher Studies in Thornwood, New York in 2009. He then spent three years of apostolic ministry in Monterrey, Mexico and New England, as part of the youth ministry and vocational promotion team for the Novitiate. On August 15, 2012, he made his perpetual profession of vows and arrived&nbsp;to&nbsp;Rome to earn a Licentiate in Philosophy and Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Theology. On May 31, 2017, he was ordained to the diaconate&nbsp;<\/em><em>in Manila by His Eminence,&nbsp;<\/em><em>Cardinal&nbsp;<\/em><em>Luis Antonio&nbsp;<\/em><em>Tagle. He was ordained to the priesthood with 32 other Legionaries on December 16, 2017, by&nbsp;<\/em><em>Cardinal Giuseppe&nbsp;Bertello, Pr<\/em><em>esident&nbsp;<\/em><em>of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI remember going to school early one morning and seeing a middle-aged man by the roadside naked, covered in dirt, famished, his hair disheveled, and his eyes wandering aimlessly as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":16811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3533,3001],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-16810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manila","category-news-article"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - 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