Jorge Ruiz Aragoneses, CMF was ordained priest on Saturday, June 5, in the church of the Claretian College of Segovia, by the imposition of hands of Monsignor César Franco, Bishop of Segovia.
“I want to be according to the heart of God, my safest bet. Today I commit myself to want to live as He dreams of me: blessed, shared, and dedicated,” said the newly ordained at the end of the celebration. His testimony is a sign of joyful hope and an invitation to live from gratitude to God for so many gifts received: the Claretian vocation, the portion of the people entrusted to him and the priestly ministry.
“How can I repay God for all the good he has done me?”, said Bishop César Franco in his homily. “The availability that you show today, the openness of your heart towards those who hope for reconciliation and peace has much to do with the history of salvation that the Lord is making with you.” The prelate, a pastor who is close to the Congregation, added:
“Today the Church has called you and you are responding to act, from now on, in the person of Christ himself”.
The framework chosen to receive this ministry was the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, when Jesus presents himself as the definitive priest, a singular memory that was underlined by Bishop Franco: “Christ is today temple, altar, priest and sacrifice. And it is in these terms that your life will reach its full meaning, in knowing that you are welcomed and consecrated by Him”. “For God himself, whom you cannot fail to make present in our world, becoming an instrument of his joy and his truth.”
An expansive feeling of joy, which was transversal in each of the moments lived in the celebration and which was also expressed in all those who wanted to accompany him in the ordination in person or online. Thus, among those who went to Segovia were more than forty Claretian Missionaries, with the entire provincial government. Also, many Lay Claretians, in charge of animating the celebration from the choir, who arrived from Madrid and Gijón; in the same way there was the presence of another good number of consecrated men and women, coming mostly from the capital. Of course, there were also lay people with whom Jorge shares life and mission in the schools of his province of Santiago, both the Jaime del Amo and the Alcalá, who, by the way, managed putting everything ready for the telematic retransmission, thanks to which the celebration was seen in different parts of Europe and America. Guantánamo, Granada, Rome, Zurich, St. Petersburg… Different points where the human, religious and Claretian biography of the missionary has witnessed the passage of God through innumerable people in these ten years of formation process that led to the priestly ordination.
