{"id":224609,"date":"2025-10-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/?p=224609"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:43:34","slug":"marcus-muros-ordenado-sacerdote-el-plan-de-dios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/marcus-muros-ordenado-sacerdote-el-plan-de-dios\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Vinicius, from biologist to priest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Young Marcus is in love with everything related to life, which is evident in his own evolution, where he went from working as a biologist to entering seminary and to be ordained priest<\/strong>. Living beings, all created by God, continue to fascinate him, but it is now man, God's masterpiece, who is the focus of his attention and whom he now helps to get to know his Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He belongs to the clergy of the Brazilian diocese of Nova Friburgo, in Rio de Janeiro. Marcus currently has a fundamental mission as a formator in the diocesan seminary, specifically in the propaedeutic course, a key stage for young men who are discerning and evaluating their vocation to the priestly life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marcus Vinicius Muros surrounded by his fellow seminar participants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Family, the key to being ordained a priest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this interview with CARF Foundation<\/strong>The young priest, ordained in 2021, recalls that he comes from a Catholic family that actively participated in the pastoral activities of his parish. \"My parents have been teachers of faith<\/strong> for my brother and me. Already as a child I played at celebrating Mass. I lived with many priests who went to my parents' house, but I never thought of being one of them,\" he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, everything changed when he had the opportunity to get to know the seminary of his diocese, after the delegates of the vocation ministry visited his parish one day. Marcus admits that this was the first moment when he considered becoming a priest, although there was a big obstacle: \"I was already working; I had my job and my financial independence\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marcus Muros imparts the blessing in the church by sprinkling holy water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"But although I had everything,\" adds this priest, \"none of what I had was enough for me. I was missing something important, something that would make my life meaningful and worth living. The parable of the rich young man challenged me a lot,\" says Marcus. And so it was that finally in 2014 that inner struggle came to an end and he entered the seminary to begin his formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good training for today<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Barely a year later, another moment would come that would mark his life. His bishop sent him to Spain to continue his formation and philosophical and theological studies. About this experience he says that \"I will never forget the years of formation and prayer in Pamplona. They were much more than an academic preparation for the exercise of the priestly ministry, it was an experience of the universality of the Church\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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