{"id":97949,"date":"2021-04-21T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/deacon-michael-sester-lc-would-you-do-it-for-me\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T15:26:01","slug":"deacon-michael-sester-lc-would-you-do-it-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/deacon-michael-sester-lc-would-you-do-it-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Deacon Michael Sester, LC: &#8220;Would You do it for Me?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/DcnMichaelSester3-172x300.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123327 alignleft lazyload\" alt=\"Deacon Michael Sester\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123327 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/DcnMichaelSester3-172x300.png\" alt=\"Deacon Michael Sester\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/DcnMichaelSester3-172x300.png 172w, https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/DcnMichaelSester3.png 517w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/noscript>Deacon Michael Sester will be ordained to the priesthood on Saturday, May 29th, 2021 at 2:00 pm EDT, at Holy Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church in Atlanta, Georgia. \u00a0He shares his testimony below.<\/h4>\n<p>Ok, so this is how I remember it:\u00a0 I was in Eucharistic Adoration at our parish in Rogers, Minnesota, and I was praying and thinking about my future.\u00a0 I wanted to live a simple, normal, uncomplicated life, not filthy rich, not poor, have kids and be very close to people I love, the life of a good dad.\u00a0 I was eleven at the time, I think.\u00a0 Then I looked up at Jesus in the Eucharist and I said in summary of all that, \u201cI\u2019m going to be a priest.\u201d\u00a0 If that didn\u2019t make sense to you, it made even less to me at the time, but I said it in such a definitive way, and it was so out of the blue that my thoughts froze.\u00a0 I looked at him, there was a long pause, and I thought, \u201cWhat the heck? No! Please!\u201d\u00a0 He didn\u2019t react.\u00a0 So, I felt kind of stuck with that, though it wasn\u2019t a completely negative feeling either.\u00a0 I felt like he was looking at me in a very deep, penetrating way.<\/p>\n<p>After that, there was a long struggle.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to be a priest, but \u201c<em>You don&#8217;t tug on superman&#8217;s cape, you don&#8217;t spit into the wind, you don&#8217;t pull the mask off that old lone ranger<\/em>,\u201d and you don\u2019t say no to God.\u00a0 I tried so hard to forget or to discredit that moment, but I just couldn\u2019t and it\u2019s hard to explain why.\u00a0 I remember telling a classmate that I wished I could just die so that I wouldn\u2019t have to decide to go to the seminary.\u00a0 It was a little over dramatic, but I did fight with that decision for a couple years.\u00a0 When the song, \u201cI the Lord of Sea and Sky\u201d came up at mass, I wouldn\u2019t sing the part that says, \u201cI will go Lord\u201d.\u00a0 I randomly and emphatically told my mom that I wasn\u2019t going to the seminary.\u00a0 Looking back, it\u2019s incredible how God takes the deepest desires of our hearts and knows how to transform them and fulfill them in deeper ways than we can imagine, if we let him drive.<\/p>\n<p>I did end up in the seminary obviously, but at the same time, I wasn\u2019t totally sure about my vocation.\u00a0 After a few years of seminary, I remember being frustrated with God and begging him to just tell me if he really wanted me to be a priest.\u00a0 Other people left the seminary, and I was jealous that they knew it wasn\u2019t for them and I didn\u2019t know for sure that it was for me.\u00a0 If he would just tell me then I could just say yes, even if I didn\u2019t like it.\u00a0 God doesn\u2019t work like that.<\/p>\n<p>So then what?\u00a0 This all could sound a little negative, but God was digging deep in my heart and I had good people around me to help me walk forward.<\/p>\n<p>There was an important moment during my last year in Cheshire (4<sup>th<\/sup> year of major seminary) when I was thinking about married life a lot and it really pulled on my heart since it is such a good and beautiful thing.\u00a0 I went to my superior\u2019s office and talked about it for a long time.\u00a0 I pushed and pushed until he said, \u201cAlright let\u2019s start talking about it.\u201d He meant talking about my vocation as possibly being marriage and a family.\u00a0 It kind of stunned me.\u00a0 I think I needed to hear that, because I realized that part of me, a deep part, did want to be a priest and that it wasn\u2019t so easy to just throw it all away.\u00a0 Normally people talk about throwing it all away to enter the seminary, but something in that moment turned all that around.\u00a0 It\u2019s like the door opened for me to leave in peace, (It was always open.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong.) and I looked out and closed it slowly but this time because I wanted to and not because God wanted me to.<\/p>\n<p>Another important moment came during spiritual exercises in my last years of theology before my perpetual profession of vows.\u00a0 There was a moment in prayer where I felt very free.\u00a0 God wasn\u2019t forcing me to do anything.\u00a0 He could fill my life with meaning just as well as a married man and no hard feelings whatsoever.\u00a0 I realized then that he didn\u2019t just tell me in my moments of doubt, because he wanted me to choose out of love.\u00a0 God respects our freedom.\u00a0 His love is too great to let us feel coerced.\u00a0 He invites, then we decide.<\/p>\n<p>Later, during the same spiritual exercises (they lasted a month), I was in the chapel going through all the worst-case scenarios of priestly life and trying to find solid ground to stand on for the rest of my life.\u00a0 I remember looking at Jesus on that big cross and telling him that even if I had no contact with the people my life might touch, even if I had a desk job and no glory (Yes, some people might like a desk job, but for me it is a horrifying idea.), I would still do it.\u00a0 I would still love and still give of myself like he did for them.\u00a0 I would do it for them.\u00a0 It was something, but it wasn\u2019t solid enough until I felt an interruption in my thoughts similar to what had happened so many years earlier in that adoration chapel, \u201cWould you do it for me?\u201d\u00a0 Boom. \u00a0Mic drop.\u00a0 I sat there frozen.\u00a0 (It doesn\u2019t happen that often.) Jesus is a <em>someone<\/em>, a someone who had been watching me and caring all those years when I had doubted and gone back and forth.\u00a0 Who was I playing with?\u00a0 Whose heart was I playing with?\u00a0 It\u2019s important to him.\u00a0 It was his way of asking me like he asked Peter, \u201cDo you love me?\u201d\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t an accusation.\u00a0 It was an honest, open question.\u00a0 I was really talking to someone, so I thought a little bit to answer honestly.\u00a0 It was this powerful silence when God was listening.\u00a0 I hope to say \u201cyes\u201d every day of my life.<\/p>\n<p>At my perpetual profession they sang \u201cI the Lord of Sea and Sky\u201d, and through all the emotion I was barely able to sing or at least say that part that meant so much for me, \u201cI will go Lord, if you lead me, I will hold your people in my heart!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But I skipped a part, Mexico.\u00a0 I lived in Mexico for two years between theology and philosophy working in a school with adolescents.\u00a0 It changed my life.\u00a0 It was like all my desire for fatherhood was filled to overflowing.\u00a0 And I realized that the priest is called to love with all he is only that he is called to do it with God and with an open heart.\u00a0Jesus was the face of the Father and the priest is configured to Jesus.\u00a0 I hope and pray to be able to show God the Father to those around me.\u00a0 I remember looking at the kids and thinking \u201cGod loves you so much! You have no idea! I know it!\u201d It was just that I felt so full in those moments.\u00a0 Jacques Philippe says it so well:<\/p>\n<p>There are, however, if we are faithful to our mission, moments of grace in which we feel our hearts filled with a very deep love, an immense tenderness for the people God entrusts to us, a paternal, even almost maternal love for them\u2026 <em><u>We feel then that our heart is filled with a love that is greater than us<\/u><\/em>, of which our heart alone cannot be the source. We experience a tenderness and compassion much greater, stronger, and purer than we are naturally capable of. It is God who comes to love in us, who gives us the grace to feel his kindness and compassion for his children.<\/p>\n<p>I will be deeply configured to Christ.\u00a0 He goes where I go.\u00a0 He acts when I act even if I am weak, and most of all he wants to love through my love. \u201cAs you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world\u2026 I made known to them your name, and I will make it known, <em><u>that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them<\/u><\/em>.\u201d (John 17:18) I think of my hands being anointed with oil, oil that consecrates, perfumes, heals, and illuminates.\u00a0 Can my hands do that?\u00a0 I think of his hands inside mine like gloves.\u00a0 Pope Benedict XVI says:<\/p>\n<p>The Lord has laid his hands upon us and he now wants our hands so that they may become his own in the world\u2026 By putting ourselves at the service of his love, they can pass on his divine touch.<\/p>\n<p>So, God knocked at the door of my heart and 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