On August 21, at the Distinguished and National Basilica of Guadalupe, Juan Pablo María López, LC, from Guadalajara, and Michel Errecart, LC, from Mexico City, received the diaconate from Mons. Héctor Mario Pérez Villareal, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Mexico.
Father Alberto Simán, LC, territorial director of the Legionaries of Christ of Mexico and Central America, presented the two candidates to Mons. Héctor Mario Pérez. In his homily, he expressed: “In the diaconate, they will find in Christ the vocation to serve, and feeling first loved by God, that is how they will be able to love all people, all society with their vocation in the Regnum Christi. They must live charity in simple moments and in the most difficult moments to be like Christ, the Good Samaritan who stops to help the fallen. Help young people who seemingly have everything resolved but have a spiritual void and live without love.”
Father Alberto Simán, LC, thanked Mons. Héctor on behalf of the entire Regnum Christi family, highlighting the support of families in the vocation of the ordained young men. Due to the pandemic, access to the Basilica was restricted, but the diaconate ceremony was broadcast on social media, connecting people from Europe, Asia, North America, and South America.
Profiles
Michel Errecart, LC
- Born on October 1, 1990, in Mexico City.
- Studied at the Cumbres International School in Mexico from preschool through high school. Participated in ECYD during his childhood and adolescence.
- Joined the Regnum Christi Movement in 2008.
- Entered the Candidate program in 2009 in Monterrey, and after receiving his Legionary uniform, moved to Germany, where he completed two years of novitiate (2009-2011), made his first religious profession at the end of that period, and then went to Salamanca, Spain, to study Humanities for one year.
- Continued his Philosophy studies in Rome for a period of three years.
- His apostolic practices were carried out in León, Guanajuato, for one year at the vocational center of León, and two years at the Cumbres International School San Javier in Guadalajara (Mexico), as a secondary and high school formation instructor and member of the ECYD auxiliary team of Guadalajara North.
- He also supported the formation of young people from Regnum Christi within that same locality. He studied theology in Rome, where he also took his perpetual vows.
Juan Pablo María, LC
- Born on October 16, 1991, in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He entered the Guadalajara Vocational Center in 2003, continued his studies in Spain after one year, completed his fifth year in Guadalajara, and later entered the novitiate in 2008.
- Made his first vows in 2010 in Monterrey, where he stayed for two more years to pursue Humanities studies. At twenty, he arrived in Rome to begin his Philosophy studies.
- In 2015, he was sent to collaborate as a trainer at the Mexico City Vocational Center. He stayed there for three years, after which he returned to Rome to study theology.
- His first pastoral ministry will be in Florence to assist with ECYD and the youth section of Regnum Christi.
