I am from the Dominican Republic and was a librarian and a teacher for 18 years at the Pontifical Catholic Mother University.  I worked in several chapels in my parish as an administrator of those communities, serving in that ministry for 11 years. I was also a catechist in my parish. I worked in the Emmaus Brotherhood for 14 years, offering my service as a committed lay person. 

I knew I wanted to be a priest since I was 10 years old when I made my first communion. I began as an altar server and over the years I made 13 vocational retreats. At one of those retreats, I was chosen and received by the local formation team to enter seminary formation. I spent 4 years in the minor seminary, did a propaedeutic study and then asked for a time of discernment. My father was sick, and I left to help my mother take care of him. I helped my entire family during those years outside the seminary and, after 18 years of being away, the Lord continued calling me and I am now here as a seminarian for the Diocese of Scranton.