{"id":181527,"date":"2023-05-15T20:52:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.fundacioncarf.org\/colabora\/pon-cara-a-tu-donativo\/shehan-mario-fernando-kandanearachchi\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:42:24","slug":"shehan-mario-fernando-kandanearachchi","status":"publish","type":"candidatos","link":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/colabora\/pon-cara-a-tu-donativo\/shehan-mario-fernando-kandanearachchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Shehan Mario Fernando Kandanearachchi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shehan Mario Fernando Kandanearachchi es <\/span>a seminarian from the Archdiocese of Colombo<\/span>, <\/span>Sri Lanka<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

His family consists of his parents and 2 siblings.<\/span>, <\/span>of which the eldest is also a <\/span>seminarian<\/span>. <\/span>His father is recently retired, his<\/span> mother is a housewife and her younger brother <\/span>continues with his civil studies<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Thanks to my family's Christian upbringing my older brother and I. <\/span>we were able to recognize the priestly vocation among our own family.<\/span>. <\/span>Upon completion of my studies <\/span>and high school in a catholic school, I started working in a bank while I was studying. <\/span>accounting and finance<\/span>, <\/span>although I could not finish it because of my entrance to the seminar.<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Since I was a child I have felt love for the Eucharist and Our Lady, who are my great motives to become a priest, God willing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am very grateful for the formation and the seeds of priestly life that I received in the first years of my formation in my country. I have been in priestly formation for seven years, the first five of which were in my country. <\/span>- <\/span>one of minor seminary<\/span>, <\/span>one propaedeutic and three philosophy courses at St. Francis Xavier major seminary <\/span>y <\/span>Our Lady of Sri Lanka National Seminary<\/span>. <\/span>I have two years <\/span>wonderful here at the Bidasoa International Seminar<\/span>, <\/span>which has been of great spiritual benefit and <\/span>intellectual formation, a formation that gives birth and grows a desire to serve God through the Church. This has been a total adventure and a blessing.<\/span>, <\/span>living and training in Bidasoa<\/span>, <\/span>place that presents me with high standards for a priest which only with love for Jesus the Eucharist can I achieve.<\/span>, <\/span>in honor of the Blessed Virgin <\/span>and loyalty to the Church.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"I am aware that the priestly vocation is not an isolated development.<\/span>, <\/span>but a collaboration of spiritual, material and service support from many good-hearted people, of whom I have no doubt that they will see their <\/span>reward in eternity. <\/span>I remember them at every Holy Mass with much affection and gratitude from <\/span>your sacrifices and generosity for this formation that God has designed for me.<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While assuring my prayers for you, I commit to take every opportunity and every moment of my formation to grow and identify myself with Jesus in order to bring Him much closer to me as a <\/span>priest<\/span>, <\/span>with God's grace.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shehan Mario Fernando Kandanearachchi es un seminarista de a la archidi\u00f3cesis de Colombo, Sri Lanka. Su familia est\u00e1 formada por sus padres y 2 hermanos, de los cuales, el mayor tambi\u00e9n es un seminarista. Su padre est\u00e1 recientemente jubilado, su madre es ama de casa y su hermano menor sigue con sus estudios civiles. \u00abGracias […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[120],"pcatd":[],"cantidad":[],"continente":[],"estadobeca":[3],"class_list":["post-181527","candidatos","type-candidatos","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-sacerdote","estadobeca-en-curso"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/candidatos\/181527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/candidatos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/candidatos"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/candidatos\/181527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223031,"href":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/candidatos\/181527\/revisions\/223031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181527"},{"taxonomy":"pcatd","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pcatd?post=181527"},{"taxonomy":"cantidad","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cantidad?post=181527"},{"taxonomy":"continente","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continente?post=181527"},{"taxonomy":"estadobeca","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/estadobeca?post=181527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}