Sean Marc Carloto Grade 11-St.

Peter

VOCATION STORY

My vocation started when I was very young age because instead of the usual
games I play, what I love to play is the mass or misa misahan game with my friends and
cousins we celebrate the wedding in our sala and I am the priest in that game and that
is the most unforgettable moment of mine and I play the mass game somehow realistic
because in my left hand, there is a super thin biscuit that serves as hostia or host and
in my right hand I have a mug that contains a coca-cola soft drinks that serve as wine.

And I don't know that when the unusual game comes it can be true if God has
played in our lives if we offer our whole life to serve the church and because of my
dream before to become a priest I got involved in the church because my parents have
shown me that the life that consecrated to God because every Sunday we attend in the
Sunday mass in our parish and one day a catechism ask my parents , Do you want to
be your child as an altar server? And my mother said to that lady Yes he wants and I
was shocked because I am afraid in a large crowd places I am affair of being wrong
and to fall at the altar but my father said to me just try and I try and I didn't realize that I
was going to be Invested or dressed by the cassock.

Entered as an altar server in our parish in noveleta and because of my legacy of

being an altar server for almost 8 years I was inspired by the priests and I told myself
that I want to wear that one of a kind cloth that’s why I want to enter in the seminary to
fulfill my dream and my vocation, I was also inspired by my father who used to be a
seminarian in their province in Leyte and because of family and God's support, trust,
mercy, and compassion, I am still here in the seminary responding to the call of
vocation even if I experience hardship, pain, and fear God is always there, to help, to
listen to my pleading.

And God does not abandon me in my vocation, even though it is very difficult to
follow the footsteps of Jesus, it becomes easy because God and my family are always
there for me to guide me , to help me follow the vocation I answer even in sorrows
which I experienced when I separated from my family that is the hardest part to move
on but with the help of my fellow seminarians, friends, and formators I overcome my
homesick that why I am here still.