{"id":59985,"date":"2025-08-24T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=59985"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:19:14","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-tells-newly-ordained-24-year-old-priest-to-never-lose-your-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/pope-leo-xiv-tells-newly-ordained-24-year-old-priest-to-never-lose-your-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"El Papa Le\u00f3n XIV dice a un sacerdote reci\u00e9n ordenado de 24 a\u00f1os que \u2018nunca pierda su alegr\u00eda\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; margin-bottom: 25px;\">\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/images\/father.tovar.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; max-width: 100%\" \/><br \/>\n  <span style=\"text-align: right; font-style: italic;\">El padre Miguel Tovar, de 24 a\u00f1os, de la Di\u00f3cesis de Cartagena, Espa\u00f1a. \/ Cr\u00e9dito: Foto cortes\u00eda de la Di\u00f3cesis de Cartagena<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Redacci\u00f3n ACI Prensa, 9 de agosto de 2025 \/ 08:00 a. m. (CNA).<\/p>\n<p>El padre Miguel Tovar tiene 24 a\u00f1os y es <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aciprensa.com\/noticias\/114937\/miguel-a-punto-de-ser-sacerdote-cuando-le-entregas-la-vida-a-dios-te-lo-da-todo\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">uno de los sacerdotes m\u00e1s j\u00f3venes de Espa\u00f1a<\/a>. Tras su ordenaci\u00f3n el 5 de julio en la Di\u00f3cesis de Cartagena, \u00e9l y sus padres visitaron Roma y conocieron al Papa Le\u00f3n XIV, quien le anim\u00f3 a no perder nunca \u201cla alegr\u00eda del sacerdocio\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQu\u00e9 regalazo del Se\u00f1or, un mes despu\u00e9s de mi ordenaci\u00f3n sacerdotal, poder saludar al Papa. El Santo Padre me anim\u00f3 a ser fiel y a no perder la alegr\u00eda del sacerdocio en la oraci\u00f3n\u201d, escribi\u00f3 Tovar el 7 de agosto en X.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00a1Qu\u00e9 gran regalo del Se\u00f1or, a un mes de mi ordenaci\u00f3n sacerdotal, poder saludar al Papa! El Santo Padre me anim\u00f3 a ser fiel y a no perder la alegr\u00eda del sacerdocio en la oraci\u00f3n. Al saber que ven\u00edan mis padres, les dio la enhorabuena por entregar un hijo de 24 a\u00f1os a la Iglesia \ud83d\ude4f\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bFI52uu4tk\">pic.twitter.com\/bFI52uu4tk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miguel Tovar Fern\u00e1ndez (@TovarPater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TovarPater\/status\/1953541034383679787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"drag-handle\" data-drag-handle=\"true\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tovar cont\u00f3 que, tras decirle al Papa que hab\u00eda sido ordenado recientemente, el Papa Le\u00f3n XIV le dijo: \u201cS\u00e9 fiel. Muchos sacerdotes pierden su alegr\u00eda. Nunca pierdas la alegr\u00eda del sacerdocio, que siempre encontrar\u00e1s a trav\u00e9s de la oraci\u00f3n\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Al enterarse de que los padres de Tovar lo hab\u00edan acompa\u00f1ado a Roma, Le\u00f3n XIV respondi\u00f3: \u201c\u00bfEst\u00e1n ah\u00ed? \u00a1Diles que vengan!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tovar escribi\u00f3 que el Papa \u201cles dio la enhorabuena por entregar un hijo de 24 a\u00f1os a la Iglesia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El pont\u00edfice tambi\u00e9n dijo que conoce Murcia, la regi\u00f3n en la que vive Tovar, y que est\u00e1 rezando por <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/265791\/pope-leo-xiv-visits-young-spaniard-hospitalized-during-jubilee\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">el joven murciano<\/a> que estuvo recientemente hospitalizado en Roma.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Luego bendijo al sacerdote y a sus padres, as\u00ed como la estola conferida en la ordenaci\u00f3n diaconal de Tovar.<\/p>\n<h2>El camino de Tovar al sacerdocio<\/h2>\n<p>En <a href=\"https:\/\/diocesisdecartagena.org\/blog\/ordenarme-sacerdote-con-24-anos-es-el-mayor-regalo\/\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">an interview <\/a>publicado d\u00edas antes de su ordenaci\u00f3n, Tovar dijo: \u201cCuando el Se\u00f1or te llama, puede surgir el miedo de que Dios te lo va a quitar todo. Pero es todo lo contrario. A lo largo de estos a\u00f1os, he visto que cuando entregas tu vida a Dios, \u00c9l te lo da todo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nacido en Torrealta, un peque\u00f1o pueblo de Murcia, Tovar creci\u00f3 en un hogar cristiano y feliz con sus padres, su hermano gemelo y su hermana mayor.<\/p>\n<p>En la entrevista, el sacerdote comparti\u00f3 que sinti\u00f3 la llamada de Dios a los 13 a\u00f1os, pero no fue hasta los 18, en 2019, cuando finalmente ingres\u00f3 en el Seminario Mayor San Fulgencio.<\/p>\n<p>Tovar eligi\u00f3 \u201cSu misericordia es eterna\u201d como su lema sacerdotal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Esta historia <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aciprensa.com\/noticias\/116097\/vaticano-leon-xiv-bendice-a-joven-sacerdote-espanol-de-24-anos-y-a-sus-padres\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>fue publicada originalmente<\/em><\/a><em> por ACI Prensa, socio de noticias en espa\u00f1ol de CNA. Ha sido traducida y adaptada por CNA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/265881\/pope-leo-xiv-tells-newly-ordained-24-year-old-priest-to-never-lose-your-joy\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/265881\/pope-leo-xiv-tells-newly-ordained-24-year-old-priest-to-never-lose-your-joy<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El padre Miguel Tovar, de veinticuatro a\u00f1os, de la Di\u00f3cesis de Cartagena, Espa\u00f1a. \/ Cr\u00e9dito: Foto cortes\u00eda de la Di\u00f3cesis de Cartagena. Redacci\u00f3n ACI Prensa, 9 de agosto de 2025 \/ 08:00 a. m. (CNA). El padre Miguel Tovar tiene 24 a\u00f1os y es uno de los sacerdotes m\u00e1s j\u00f3venes de Espa\u00f1a. Tras su ordenaci\u00f3n el 5 de julio en la Di\u00f3cesis de Cartagena, \u00e9l [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":61625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-59985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pope-Leo-XIV-tells-newly-ordained-24-year-old-priest-to-%E2%80%98never-lose-your-joy.webp?fit=800%2C538&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56073,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/pope-leo-xiv-appoints-iowa-priest-to-lead-mission-diocese-of-baker-oregon\/","url_meta":{"origin":59985,"position":0},"title":"Pope Leo XIV appoints Iowa priest to lead mission diocese of Baker, Oregon","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"noviembre 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Father Thomas Hennen, vicar general of the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, has been appointed by Pope Leo XIV to be the next bishop of Baker, a mission diocese in eastern Oregon. \/ Courtesy of Diocese of Davenport Rome Newsroom, Jul 10, 2025 \/ 12:30 pm (CNA). 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