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My vocation

I'm Grégoire Oliveira Silva, born in 1989, I'm a seminarian for the diocese of Meaux (France) and a member of the Fraternity of Saint Etienne.

Although I was baptized as a baby, I did not receive religious education at a younger age and even became very anti-clerical. In 2010, I had the grace to meet the Lord by following a friend who led me to a church. A few months later, the Lord challenged me with this question: "Why don't you become a priest?". Having matured this question, I entered into a spiritual foundation, sent by my diocese, to the Maison Saint Jean-Baptiste in September 2012.

Become a priest

Minimum of 7 years are needed to become priest. We are working for four pillars: human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral formation.

Usually, these are the stages of formation:

1 year of spiritual foundation
2 years of philosophy cycle
3 years of theology cycle
1 year as a deacon in a parish

Four stages punctuate this formation:

Admission as a candidate for the priesthood where the Church publicly recognizes for the first time our vocation
The institution for the readership
The institution for the acolyte
The diaconal ordination

My formation

I have a more atypical formation, with a few bonus years.

my year of spiritual foundation at the Maison Saint Jean-Baptiste in Versailles (France)
a year of pastoral internship in the Missionary Pole of Provins (France)
2 years of philosophy cycle at the Studium of Notre Dame de Vie in Saint Didier in the Vaucluse (France)
an inter-cycle year in study mission in the same place
2 years of study at the French Biblical and Archaeological School and mission with the Vicariate of Saint-Jacques for Hebrew-speaking Catholics, in Jerusalem
2 years of pastoral internship in the Missionary Pole of Melun (France) with intellectual formation in the Collège des Bernardins (Paris)

Deacon

Par l’ordination diaconale, celui qui se prépare au sacerdoce est marqué d’une empreinte indélébile qui le configure au Christ serviteur et manifeste à tous l’amour humble et serviable de Jésus-Christ qui

« n’est pas venu pour être servi, mais pour servir, et donner sa vie en rançon pour la multitude » (Marc 10,45)

Il reçoit la charge d’assister le prêtre pendant la liturgie, de proclamer l’Évangile et de prêcher, de célébrer les baptêmes et de bénir les mariages, de distribuer l’Eucharistie et de la porter aux malades, de présider à la prière des fidèles et aux funérailles, en portant particulièrement le souci des pauvres et des plus fragiles.

Au jour de son ordination, le diacre s’engage à prier la liturgie des Heures pour l’Église et pour le monde, à demeurer en communion avec son évêque et ses successeurs, et en vue du sacerdoce, à vivre le célibat pour le service de Dieu et des hommes.

François-Olivier – Mgr Nahmias – Grégoire