{"id":7799,"date":"2018-02-08T12:36:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legionariosdecristo.org\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:52:27","slug":"choose-christ-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/subdir.legionariosdecristo.org\/en\/blog\/2018\/02\/choose-christ-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abChoose Christ, choose God\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u00abChoose<\/a>On Sunday, January 28, the religious Juan Pablo \u00c1lamos, LC, Gustavo Balestrin, LC, and Carlos da Rocha, LC, took their perpetual vows at the International College of the Legionaries of Christ in Rome. During the Eucharistic celebration, presided over by Father Eduardo Robles-Gil, LC, there was also a renewal of vows out of devotion. Some family members of the newly professed, the Legionaries of Christ from the houses in Rome, consecrated laity<\/a>, consecrated members of the Regnum Christi<\/a>, and friends attended.<\/p>\n

Father Eduardo commented in his homily that the Gospel presents itself as a proposal that only the simple can understand and as a mystery that manifests in the world through generous souls who decide to bring His word to others. “The personal gifts that God has given us are of great value. Part of them we are asked to renounce, and part of them we are asked to use for the Kingdom. That choosing Christ, choosing God, is a renunciation, but only simple people can understand this,” he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\u00abChoose<\/a>\u00abSimple people understand that there is family, community, that others exist, that the other exists. So they are capable of sacrificing themselves for others; that is the wisdom of simple people,\u00bb he added.<\/p>\n

Later, he said: \u00abLet us ask God that we have that wisdom of simple people. To see God in others, so that we serve Him; to see goods as means, but above all, never to put ourselves at the center. The wisdom of the Gospel consists in the fact that Christ is at the center, and we step aside to let Him have the protagonism.\u00bb<\/p>\n

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Gustavo Balestrin, LC with his family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gustavo Balestrin, LC, is from Brazil. He joined the Legion of Christ in 2007 at the Novitiate in Brazil and moved to the Novitiate in Medell\u00edn to complete his second year. He made his first religious profession on January 24, 2009. He studied two years of humanities in Cheshire, United States, and the bachelor’s degree in philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum<\/em><\/a> in Rome. During apostolic practices, from 2013 to 2016, he was a member of the formation team at the Vocational Center in Curitiba. In 2016, he returned to Rome to begin his licentiate in philosophy.<\/p>\n