Two hours alone with the Pope. That was the experience of a seminary in Spain that traveled to Rome to celebrate its 30th anniversary. About 40 young people, accompanied by their bishops and formators, spoke with the Pope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BP. GIN\u00c9S GARC\u00cdA BELTR\u00c1N It is rare to meet the Pope, let alone have the chance to share questions and concerns. The seminarians took full advantage of this opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n JORGE CARRASCOSA ANTONIO S\u00c1NCHEZ In addition receiving advice from the Pope, the seminarians did not leave empty-handed. Pope Francis gifted them a rosary and one of his apostolic exhortations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than 40 Spanish seminarians traveled to the Vatican to share the 30 year anniversary of their seminary with Pope Francis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":70145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,184,27,186],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/khAIgbw1Epo","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bseminariogetafeeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bseminariogetafeint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70150,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70148\/revisions\/70150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Bishop of Getafe, Spain<\/strong>
When he came in and saw 40 seminarians, he suddenly turned to me and said: \u201cBut are they all from the same diocese? Yes, they are. \u201cAnd what do you do to have this?\u201d<\/em>
The Pope responded, for example, to topics that are very relevant to today's world, such as the relationship between ecclesial movements and dioceses. The Pope also spoke of his own experience when a seminarian asked how he lived the fundamental vocational moments in his life. He told us about the conclaves. He says: \u201cWell, this is already published and since everyone knows it, I will tell it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seminarian<\/strong>
We asked him a question about fertility and fatherhood. He said \u201cif you are not fruitful, you are not a father\u201d and \u201cif you accept the things you have to face; if you accept the people who have been entrusted to you, living this paternity, only then are you capable of bearing fruit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seminarian<\/strong>
Seeing him when they opened the door, how he walked in, the good humor, the atmosphere he generated, as if he was very close to us. He encouraged us a lot. Also to see how he has confirmed us in our faith with all the questions he has answered, to see that he has reached us to the bottom of our hearts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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