Where do you live?
Burgos, Spain.

What are you studying?
I am studying to be a teacher.

Why do you exist?
Because Jesus wanted to play a joke on His Mother.

What must you do?
Manage to make Her (Mary) laugh that He has a good time with me.

Where do find light?
Nearly always in the Gospel. I can hardly believe that it was written 2000 years ago because it has such strength.

Where is darkness?
For my liking too close and too dangerous.

What is your stongest virtue?
I´m very humble.

What is your worst defect?
I have a lot, but to say one of them... lack of hope, sadness and I like to bite my nails instead of using clippers!

What is the meaning of your life?
Quit fooling around and love God.

How far would you go for God?
With HIS GRACE: to the end of the world, without His help... but I know that I can always count on Him.

What have we done to the world that God has given to us?
That´s what I say..what have we done to the world!?

Which virtue does the world lack?
THE VIRTUE OF THINKING, to stop for a minute and realize that love will make us happy, but of course, understanding who Love really is. In Ch. 4, verse 8 of the first letter of St. John it says it: “God is Love.”

What does the world have too much of?
SELFISHNESS AND PRIDE, it could not be able to live without pronouncing the words I, mine, for me, with me.

How do you react when there are sufferings?
I usually run away from them or rebel against them, but I´m trying to learn to understand and love suffering as a sign of predelection from Jesus Crucified, so that I may stay with Him always and not only in the easy times.

Is death the enemy of life? Why?
No. I´ll explain it to you with the words that I read on the gravestone of a saint, it said: “Was born to die,” the date of his birth and “He died to live” (this sure is positive and hopeful) and then the date of his death. Death is a joy, another step for the Children of God, but even though it’s like that, it’s normal that it frightens a bit....... and more if one does not opt for Christ and fight to be with Him.

Who is free?
Only he that chooses what is good.

How can we reach freedom?
With prayer and trusting that the law of God makes the heart truly free.

Is a Christian youth out of fashion?
No, as John Paul the Second said in Cuatro Vientos, Madrid: only the Christian youth can be deeply modern, he is not only young on the outside but also has a youthful heart.

What is purity?
One of the virtues and difficult to live.

Why is this virtue not practised very much?
Because it’s easier to let yourself be led even though you knows that you will be happier dominating this instinct which makes you a slave.

What is the biggest threat of our times?
SUPERFICIALITY; if one doesn’t make the effort to think, he doesn’t worry himself, he doesn’t change, he doesn’t grow.

How does art lead us to God?
Its hard for me to recognise it, but I know that it does only when it's done in the service of beauty and also in the service of what is good and what is the Truth.

How can it seperate one from God?
By captivating. Evil is always attractive and easier to do.

Who is the Virgen Mary in your life?
She who takes her child in her arms and looks after him when there are dangers and this is essential.

WHAT IS YOUR BRIEF ANSWER TO THESE SETENCES:

- “Bad is never the way to what is good”
“That the end doesn’t justify the means,” that’s the way it is.

- “Peace is born in the heart”
When one acts from the heart and not rebeliously peace is born in the heart.

- “Follow me”
When the Lord calls me, it’s to give me something better, even though I have to suffer and leave big things.

- “The meaning of life is in love”
A musician once said: “It’s immoral to have lived and not to have loved,” and I think that, more or less, the two of us agree.

- “The time has arrived to start a new evangelization”
To the barricades! Or “Arise, let's go!” with John Paul II.

- “Fearless hearts are needed”
Wanted: brave young people who dare to live the Gospel and be SAINTS!!.

- “The greatest treasure is: the vocation”
Living what God wants of me I will be happy, I’m sure of it, I’m sure of it.

-“Do not be afraid”
Nothing in this world can take away from us what is reallly important. Our faith and God Himself.

ANSWER WITH ONE WORD:

BAD: BOY, YOU MADE A MISTAKE
GOOD: GOOD CHOICE!
HEAVEN: LOVE
HOME: LOVE
FAITH: TRUST
LOVE: PEACE
HOLINESS: PLENITUDE
CALLING: A LOT OF LUCK
LIGHT: GRACE
DARKNESS: WALK!

© HM Magazine No.123 - March/April 2005

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