Deacon Giovanni Prandini, 6th Year Seminarian.

A revelation on the 122 bus to Plumstead

I was born and grew up in Italy. After Confirmation I did what many young Catholics do, I lapsed. I came back to the faith when I was 21 during a volunteer trip to Nicaragua with a Catholic group. They 'peer-pressured' me into going to Confession, but the most wonderful thing happened. It was during Confession that for the first time I encountered the mercy of God. It was a life changing experience.

I realised I could not live my life without God. I came to England and found a job I liked. At the same time, I started to pray to see what God wanted me to do in my life. No answer came until one Sunday I was sitting on the 122 bus to Plumstead. I was wrestling with a nagging problem. Suddenly, I heard an inner voice saying:

I instantly knew I had to follow that intuition. So I did, and have never regretted it since. I am now in my 6th year at St John's Seminary in Surrey, and, God willing, I shall be ordained a Priest for Southwark next year.

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"No vocation is born of itself or lives for itself. A vocation flows from the heart of God and blossoms in the good soil of faithful people"

Pope Francis

Life of a Seminarian at St John's Wonersh, Surrey.

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