Sr., what do you want me to do?

Good morning.

San Michele all’Adige is a small medieval village in the middle of the forest, near Trento, Italy. There is a gothic church from the ninth, ninth century, all made of stone, devoid of the extraordinary richness of Gothic cathedrals, statues, windows, stained glass, porticos, flying buttresses, paintings, scrolls, miniatures.

Entering it is entering a space of deep silence that invites, with its high ceiling, to look up. Dark stones, maximum simplicity, white windows, only silence to immerse yourself in the depth of oneself and God. There is nothing to distract the mind.

The town, on the ridge of a mountain, is small. There is no noise from vehicles, you can only hear a scream from time to time and the songs of birds. Optimal silence, an opportune moment to take out and throw away all the garbage that accumulates in the mind and heart and to release the desire to climb risky and challenging peaks, to engage in a filial and loving dialogue with God and fill ourselves with his energy to face our fragilities.

After an event like the one experienced in our country, all we have to do is look up and ask the Lord: Sr., what do you want me to do?

Good day.

Priest Gerardo Gómez Villegas is director of the Salesian Work in the city of Los Mochis. Originally from León, Guanajuato, and born on October 3, 1953, he did his first studies at the Salesian seminary in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco; Jalostotitlán, Jal; Zapopan, Jal, and he completed them in Tlaquepaque. His priestly ordination was on December 16, 1978 in the same Tlaquepaque and, later, he obtained a doctorate in Canon Law in the city of Rome at the University of San Juan de Letrán (1984-1987). He has collaborated in Ecclesiastical Courts. He has just finished a Master’s Degree in Human Personnel Management at Utel and, for now, he is happily a Mochitense citizen.

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