{"id":8555,"date":"2021-02-05T12:40:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T12:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omnesmag.com\/?p=8555"},"modified":"2021-02-09T12:31:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:31:34","slug":"in-indonesia-we-are-few-catholics-but-with-few-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/foco\/en-indonesia-somos-pocos-catolicos-pero-con-fe-ardiente\/","title":{"rendered":"\"In Indonesia we are few Catholics, but with ardent faith.\""},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I have the conviction that God has called me to be a holy priest after the heart of Jesus Christ.\"<\/em>he says. His bishop sent him to study at the University of Navarra: \"I arrived in Pamplona in the 2013-2014 academic year. After five years of formation at the Bidasoa International Ecclesiastical College and at the University of Navarra I am convinced that the story of my vocation is a story of God's action through many people.\" <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After his ordination to the priesthood, he worked for one year in a parish in Surabaya. \"Although we are a minority in my country, Catholics have a burning faith. There were many young families, it was a parish with a lot of life.\"<\/em>Vincentius S. Wisaksono, who has welcomed him with fatherly affection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Catholics in Indonesia like to organize activities in parishes. However, many of them lack doctrinal formation. For this reason, my bishop sent me to Rome this year to further my studies at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross with a specialization in Dogmatic Theology to contribute to the formation of priests and faithful in the diocese of Surabaya.\"<\/em>he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenny, it would have been very difficult for him to respond well to God's call without the generous assistance of the benefactors of Centro Acad\u00e9mico Romano Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTengo la convicci\u00f3n de que Dios me ha llamado a ser un sacerdote santo seg\u00fan el coraz\u00f3n de Jesucristo\u201d, afirma. Su obispo le envi\u00f3 a estudiar a la Universidad de Navarra: \u201cLlegu\u00e9 a Pamplona en el curso 2013-2014. Tras cinco a\u00f1os de formaci\u00f3n en el Colegio Eclesi\u00e1stico Internacional Bidasoa y en la Universidad de Navarra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":8559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[548,550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foco","category-vocaciones"],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cEn Indonesia somos pocos cat\u00f3licos, pero con fe ardiente\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kenny Ang, sacerdote de 28 a\u00f1os de la di\u00f3cesis de Surabaya (Indonesia), estudia en la Pontificia Universidad de la Santa Cruz gracias al CARF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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