"I am Father Cezar Luis Morbach, priest of the Diocese of Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil. I was born on September 4, 1984 in the city of Campina das Missões, son of Amatino Morbach and Petronilla Schutz Morbach, farmers. I have one sister and two brothers. I was born and raised in the simple life of the countryside, helping my parents with household chores and farming. From childhood I received from them the example of honesty, simplicity, but above all of faith and love for God. As a religious family, prayer at the table before meals is and continues to be a custom in our home, as well as praying the rosary, participating in the Sunday mass (or celebration of the word, since, being an internal community, there is no possibility of mass every Sunday), and also the service to the community, attending to their needs, both in a guiding role and doing manual labor of cleaning and maintenance of the celebration space.

The example of my parents, the love with which they dedicated themselves to the church community, the faith they lived, along with the witness of friends who entered the minor seminary of the Diocese of Santo Angelo (the diocese to which my parents territorially belong), awakened in me the desire to have a seminary experience. In 1998, after a weekend of vocations in the seminary, I decided to enter the seminary the following year.

However, certain circumstances made me postpone this decision. Thus, in 1999, at the age of 14, I left my parents' home, no longer to enter the seminary, but to live with my sister and her family in the city of Dois Irmãos, in search of a better life. Then, in August 1999, when I was still 14 years old, I started working in a company that produced shoes. During the day, from 7:00 to 17:30, I worked and, at night, I studied. after 8 years of work (4 in the shoe sector and the other 4 in the furniture sector), in 2006, after a period of "running away" from God, after finishing high school and starting a mathematics course at the University of Vale dos Sinos (unisinos), God met me again through a childhood friend, on the eve of his ordination to the priesthood.

Then, on August 26, 2006, at the age of 21, I left my job, my university, my family, my girlfriend, my friends.... I left everything to enter the preparatory seminary in the diocese of Novo Hamburgo. In 2007 and 2008 I studied philosophy at the Maria Mater Ecclesiae seminary (run by the Legionaries of Christ), in the city of Itapecerica da Serra. In 2009 I returned to the diocese to reside in the major seminary San Luigi Gonzaga, located in the city of Viamão, to pursue my theology studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul.

In 2012, at the request of the diocesan bishop - and as was customary in the diocese - I was invited to interrupt my studies and dedicate myself to the so-called pastoral year in the sister church of the Archdiocese of Porto Velho, more specifically, in the parish of St. Giuseppe in the city of Monte Negro, doing pastoral work in that parish throughout the year. At the beginning of 2013 I returned to Rio Grande do Sul to resume my theology studies and prepare for ordinations: diaconate ordination took place on August 4, 2013, in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Luigi Gonzaga, in the city of Novo Hamburgo; priestly ordination on December 20, 2013, in the parish of St. Michele, city of Dois Irmãos. I trust, once again, in Divine Providence and I am grateful for the help given to me by my benefactors. Thank you very much".

"I was born and raised in a simple rural life, helping my parents with their chores and farming. I received from them from the beginning the example of honesty, simplicity, but, above all, faith and love for God. Our family is very religious and prayer at the table before meals is and remains a custom in our home, as well as praying the Rosary, participating in Sunday Mass (or celebration of the Word, since it is a community in the interior and often there is no possibility of Mass every Sunday). We also always dedicate ourselves to community service, helping people in need, playing some leadership role, doing manual work in cleaning and preparing for liturgical celebrations or community prayer.

 The example of my parents, the love with which they dedicated themselves to the ecclesial community, the faith lived, together with the testimony of friends who entered the Minor Seminary of the Diocese of Santo Angelo (Diocese to which my parents, territorially, belong), awakened in me the desire to have an experience in the Seminary. So, in 1998, after a vocational weekend at the Seminary, I decided to enter the Seminary myself, in the following year.".