{"id":64088,"date":"2026-09-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=64088"},"modified":"2026-09-02T14:08:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:08:44","slug":"do-you-want-to-be-a-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/firmas\/quieres-ser-papa\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want to be Pope?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cYou ask me if, as a child, I wanted to be Pope. Well, Renzo, I don\u2019t think so. I don\u2019t think I ever thought about it. But I can tell you this: ever since I was a child, I\u2019ve felt the desire to dedicate my life to God. I didn\u2019t yet fully know how or where the Lord would lead me. Over time, I came to discover that Jesus was calling me to follow him as a priest, and that this path led through the Order of St. Augustine. But this isn\u2019t just true for me. Every child is a dream of God.\u201d<\/em>. These words by Leo XIV were spoken during one of the most moving moments of the Pope\u2019s Apostolic Journey to Spain last June.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Renzo\u2019s innocent and tender question\u2014he was a boy from a vulnerable family\u2014concealed, in the simplicity of its wording, the crucial question for every Christian.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God doesn't ask each of us if we want to be Pope (thank goodness!), but there is one question He asks all of us, every day of our lives: <em>\u201cDo you want to be a saint?\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, day after day, we respond\u2014with varying degrees of success.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the Christian life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently read that a disciple is someone who changes their routines and schedules\u2026 in order to be closer to Christ.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disciple sets aside the nets\u2014not because he abandons them, condemning them to oblivion and to the mice, but because he puts those nets to work in the service of the mission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter did not abandon the boat. He abandoned his reliance on it, his dependence on it, and, by placing it in Christ\u2019s hands, he made it the Church.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, God does not ask us if we want to know the ultimate purpose of our lives, nor the trials we will face along the way\u2014perhaps because He knows the consequences of heart attacks. He asks us if we want to collaborate, freely, in His plan, in bringing to life the dream of God that Leo XIV spoke of to Renzo\u2014the one that the Creator holds and nurtures for each and every one of us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bringing that positive response to that call to life is what shapes our happiness, which is always shared.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Spanish thinker and writer asserts that human beings have only one pivotal moment in their lives: the moment when they realize who they are\u2014not what they are or what they do, but who they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That <em>who is<\/em> is the content of that \u201clittle white stone\u201d in which it is <em>\u201ca new name has been written, known to no one but the one who receives it\u201d<\/em> (Revelation 2:17).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The name-thought of God, the divine dream that gave us life and that holds all our happiness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMe preguntas si de peque\u00f1o quer\u00eda ser Papa. Bueno, Renzo, creo que no. Yo creo que nunca lo pens\u00e9. Pero s\u00ed puedo decirte algo: desde peque\u00f1o sent\u00ed el deseo de entregar mi vida a Dios. No sab\u00eda todav\u00eda del todo c\u00f3mo ni por d\u00f3nde me llevar\u00eda el Se\u00f1or. 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