Vita Nostra

STORY OF MY LIFE Sem. Saturcito Velasco, Jr. I remember in my Summer Apostolate, A young “Inday” of St. James the Greater Parish in Batuan came and asked me, “Why are you a seminarian?” I had answered that question, hundreds of time before… after all, I have been a seminarian for three years… but this time, I wanted to give a better answer to a young “Inday”. “I am a seminarian.” “Yes.” I finally said, “I am a seminarian because God wants me to become a priest.” For the first time, I had felt at peace with my answer. In the past, I would say something like “I am a seminarian because I am called or because my father don’t want me to become a nun.”(Something weird) And then I would launch upon my story about when I was 11-years old. For when I was eleven, a catechist in our school began brainwashing me. I was studying at Bool Elementary School. She told me “Satur, why don’t you learn how to serve the mass?” I thought it was a good idea but the problem is wh...