Catholic Outlook Magazine | Lent & Easter | 2023 Issue

“I recognised that my true inner peace, joy
and happiness were rooted in the service of
God’s people. It was here I found my journey –
my calling,” he says.
One of Luke’s seminarian brothers, Macky Amores, is
in his fourth year of formation at Holy Spirit Seminary.
It was through the Children of Today’s Choir in his
hometown of Bogo City, the Philippines, that Macky
received his first inkling of a vocational calling.
“I loved seeing the priest celebrating the liturgy of the
Mass and walking along the aisle. I imagined myself
wearing the white vestment and it seemed that when
I saw them I was lifted by the Holy Spirit, telling me
to be part of them,” he says.
A long journey brought Macky to Holy Spirit
Seminary. He went to university and became a
computer engineer, then a teacher. In 2011, he
was part of the Vincentian Popular Mission in
Negros Occidental. For the next six years, Macky
participated in mission trips across the Philippines
and began his novitiate formation with the
Vincentians before taking up teaching again.
In 2018, he was inspired to restart his vocational
journey and applied to join our Holy Spirit Seminary.
“Based on my own experiences as a missionary,
I wanted to take the chance and the opportunity to
share my abilities,” Macky says.
“In the future, we will become people’s servants,
leading them to salvation and to God, deepening
their faith and giving them a chance to be involved in
the Church.”
In his homily for the recent ordination of Fathers
Adam Carlow, Matthew Dimian and Jack Elkazzi,
Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of
Parramatta, said the new priests were “a sign of hope
and renewal of God’s everlasting love for his people”.
He encouraged them to be “signs of the Church that
goes forth, sharing the presence, compassion and
love of Jesus with our brothers and sisters”.
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