Man for Others

P Francisco Javier Oseguera LC, un sacerdote legionario de Cristo de México: "..." Music by Mike Mangione. For much more, visit Totus2us.com which is inspired by Blessed John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us.

Monsignor John Armitage, from England: "The most important thing that you realise is that life has to be lived for others and the only way you can really understand yourself is by the way that you are a service to others. I thank God that I realised that when I was young. I realised it because I was taught it at school, I realised it because I saw it lived out by my parents and my community, I saw it every day, and so when it came to my turn to respond and respond to people, that's exactly how I managed to grow. So it then became a natural question for me about the priesthood: should I become a priest? And I entered the seminary when I was 18. " Music by Mike Mangione. For much more, visit Totus2us.com which is inspired by Saint John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us.

Father Sebastian Maria Kajko of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, from Canada: "What it was was an attraction that I just couldn't deny. And now, being a priest for merely three years and yet it feels so good, so right, so natural. I've been thinking the last few days, 'What do I love about the last three years of my life?' And what I love is the privilege of being at the altar, so close to Him, so near Him, to say the Mass, to preach the truth, to do the Sacraments, to baptise babies, to marry people off, to do these wonderful things. I've already had some amazing stories, having the privilege to be in people's lives at critical moments, to be that bridge, to be that representative of Jesus Christ, which I know I'm not worthy of, it's very clear to me. And Jesus basically saying to me "I know you're not worthy, just come anyway!" So, here I am, ready and willing to serve. That's what I want to do. I want to be a priest like Jesus Christ is a priest and to serve his people as generously as I can. Praise be Jesus Christ!" Music by Mike Mangione. For much more, visit Totus2us.com which is inspired by Saint John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us.

Father Lee Marshall, from England: "It was the following August (2007) that I took the leap of faith and left my career, my job, put my house on the market and just left it all behind and went to seminary. And I’ve never, ever, once looked back since then. … I've never doubted my vocation because I knew that it came from Our Lady's intercession, I knew that it had always come from that initial prayer which I'd made on that bus to Medjugorje, of asking Our Lady to help me to open my heart to the Lord. And I knew that that was the way that she answered that prayer - by helping me see that God created me to be far more than I was. He created me not to be an accountant, He created me to be a priest of Jesus Christ and I am so grateful to her for showing me that path, for showing me the Lord. So I never doubted in all that time in seminary that I had a vocation, and then I was ordained in the Cathedral in Sheffield in 2013 and it was the happiest day of my life. It was truly the most beautiful anointing and the greatest gift that God could ever give me was the gift of the priesthood. It's a pure gift. It's just incredible to be a priest and this last year has been truly blessed. Just the doors that the Lord has opened, the people that He has put in my path, the healing that He has worked through my hands, the preaching, the beautiful Masses I've been so blessed to celebrate, especially here with Youth 2000 at Walsingham. .. So the Lord has done amazing things in this last year and I'm just so excited as to what the future will be. What He will do in my life and what He will do in the Church. It's a great time now to be a Catholic in this country, it's such an exciting time. The shoots of renewal, the shoots of what the Lord is doing is so fresh and there's something amazing growing, something amazing beginning and it's such a blessing to be part of it." Music by Mike Mangione. For much more, visit Totus2us.com which is inspired by Saint John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us.

Father Leo Fisher of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, from America: "And so you enter into these phases of these vocations and begin those times of discernment in a good, healthypositive way. Again, it's important for us to have good people in our lives, influences around us, whether our parish priest, our family. It's important to be building up people versus tearing them down. So I encourage you to seek the people that build us up, that strengthen us in our walk with the Lord and as we continue to grow in the faith. I end this little talk here just in a way of encouragement to you, always to enter into it with prayer. In a special way I encourage you to ask the intercession of the Mother of God, as she is Queen of heaven and earth, she intercedes for us, she hears our prayers. Allow her to intercede for you but you must ask her to intercede in a special way." Music by Mike Mangione. For much more, visit Totus2us.com which is inspired by Saint John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us.

Father Walter Mashamba Munna, from Uganda: "Let us accept Jesus, let us be in union with Christ, let us love the Eucharist, let us love our Mother Mary, and our ministry will not be a burden. Our ministry - we shall love it. Jesus will use us in our ministry, we shall do wonders in our ministry and we shall never grow tired of serving Christ. I thank the Lord for the gift of priesthood and I've never regretted becoming a priest. I should have been a soldier, but today I am a soldier for Christ. I should have held a gun but today I'm holding Christ. Today I'm able, through His power, to invite Christ to transform wine into His blood, the host made out of wheat into His body - the greatest miracle." Music by Mike Mangione. For much more, visit Totus2us.com which is inspired by Saint John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us.

Father Raymond Kilmurray, from Ireland: "The concept I have as a priest is to be an ‘alter Christus’, another Christ. I was born and bred in a Christian family, a truly good Catholic family, but the person that absolutely decided me, that made me see the priest as something virile, something truly courageous, something heroic, was Karol Józef Wojtyła. When he was elected pope on Monday 16th October 1978, I was absolutely taken by his first words: 'Sia lodato Jesu Christo' Praised be Jesus Christ. Jesus was placed at the centre of the world. Jesus was unashamedly confessed as being the solution for our lives. And I think that the Holy Father showed this by his tremendous wish to evangelize." Music by Mike Mangione. For much more, visit Totus2us.com which is inspired by Saint John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us.

Fr John McHale, from the United States: "It’s been such a blessing to be able to, first of all, become a priest, and then to be able to use my own personal brokenness to help others. So I am very grateful to God." Music by Mike Mangione. For much more, visit Totus2us.com which is inspired by Blessed John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us.

Father Maximin Yves Sagna sss, of the Blessed Sacrament Congregation, from Senegal: "I have had the fortune to become a priest because when Pope John Paul II came to Senegal to visit our country, I told myself ‘I want to be like this priest, like this bishop, and to dedicate all my life to announce Jesus Christ.’" Music by Mike Mangione. For much more, visit Totus2us.com which is inspired by Blessed John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us.

Père Maximin Yves Sagna sss, de la Congrégation du Saint-Sacrement, du Sénégal (in French): "En reconnaissance de ce qui arrivait en février de l'année 1992 quand Pape Jean-Paul II était au Senegal pour une visite pastorale, j'etais là parmi les jeunes de mon pays et lorsque j'ai eu la chance de le voir passer, traverser, quelque chose est passé en moi, c'est comme ca que je peux le resumer, et je n'ai pas pu resister a ce desir de lui ressembler, et c'est comme ça que tout est parti. Aujourd'hui c'est une grâce vraiment ineffable, je ne peux pas exprimer la joie qui m'habite en ce moment d'avoir pu célébrer la messe sur l'autel où Jean-Paul II repose en attendant d'être proclamé saint, mais pour moi il est déjà." Music by Mike Mangione. For much more, visit Totus2us.com which is inspired by Blessed John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us.