D. Robinson Alejandro Jimenez is a priest of the Diocese of Punto Fijo in Venezuela. He was born into a very Catholic and large family.
"My vocation began when I was 13 years old, when I felt the Lord's call to serve at the altar, as an altar server.
One of the calls where I felt that the Lord was calling me with more intensity was in the celebration of the holy Easter Triduum, in which the Lord invited me to give an answer to that great call to be His priest for the service of His people.
When I was 19 years old, I began my philosophy studies at St. John Paul II major seminary; then my bishop sent me to the major seminary Nuestra Señora del Socorro in Valencia, Carabobo state, Venezuela, to study theology.
After two years of theology, my bishop decided to give a one-year pause to my formation to the priesthood; this decision was not easy for me, and he decided to send me for a year to a parish with some religious priests called missionary servants of the Word. A pastoral work where I performed it in obedience. It was a learning experience to prepare me to serve the people of God, a humble parish that is within the peripheries of the diocese.
After completing my pastoral mission, I finished my theology studies at the Jesús Buen Pastor major seminary in the state of Bolívar, Venezuela.
On February 21, 2015, I was ordained deacon by Monsignor Roberto, Archbishop of Coro and Apostolic Administrator of the full see of the Diocese of Punto Fijo. After the six months had passed, I was ordained presbyter in the minor basilica of the Cathedral of Santa Ana de Coro, on August 15, 2015, on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, by Monsignor Roberto, in the company of all the clergy of the state of Falcon. It was a moment filled with the grace of the Lord where He made me a priest of Him, a priest of the New Covenant; one of the most joyful moments of life for the service of the universal Church.
My pastoral work as a priest began as parochial vicar of the Immaculate Conception parish. An area of hamlets with the parish priest where we served more than 40 communities. A very large parish; the experience was very pleasant and profitable where I lasted 4 months and was transferred by the pastoral need to a parish called Santo Cristo de las Piedras, appointed pastor in one of the areas of the peripheries of the diocese, where I had to serve the suffering brothers and sisters of the poorest.
One of the experiences that marked me the most in this parish was seeing children waiting for food waste to eat. This impression prompted me to start the work of the parish caritas. This reality that sadly suffers my Venezuelan people in which people do not get daily food. I carried out this work in which I strengthened my ministry as a priest of Christ in the love of the poorest as our Master did and taught us in his public ministry. In service and merciful love for my neighbor.
On the other hand, after four and a half years of work in the parish, my bishop decided to transfer me to the city of my diocese to Our Lady of Bethlehem parish as parish administrator, where I stayed for three months.
The Bishop asked me to continue my priestly formation, in order to form the laity of our diocese, sending me to Rome where I am currently studying at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, in the faculty of dogmatic theology to learn every day of our faith and to defend it and above all to learn more from the master to be more and more his disciple and bring many souls closer to the Lord".
