For him, God’s “calling” was not “blatant” and perhaps it happened when he was 5 years old. He always wanted to be a priest (and a young priest), at the age of 24 he fulfilled his childhood dream. Today, at 28, it is the young priest who, in meetings with older people, raises his hand to “try to change something”. Listen to the new episode of Geração 90 here.
Pedro Rosa Sousa was born in October 1997, in Lisbon. At the age of 5, he felt, “in his heart”, that one day he was going to be a priest and that’s what he said to his parents, uncles and grandparents when they asked him ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’.
As a child, I looked at the priests in the area where I lived and thought they were “old”. One day he wanted to be a priest, but “a young priest”. He grew up in a Catholic family, before every meal they prayed and went to mass – he almost always liked it, “except when it rained”, he says.
In the 7th year he started attending a kind of pre-seminar. At the age of 14, he entered the seminary, just like his twin brother, who even wanted to be a manager. “At the age of 24 I realized that the Lord wanted me to be a priest”, he recalls.
He describes the “call of God” as a “contact with others” not as a “proud voice” or a “poster” posted on a highway and at 28 he is a priest “for others”.
Statistics show that there are more and more young people entering the Church and more young priests. Father Pedro Rosa Sousa is one of them and is the guest on the new episode of Geração 90 led by Júlia Palha.
After cinema, television and fashion, three areas that Júlia Palha knows well, came a new challenge: carrying out a series of conversations in podcast format on SIC Notícias. ‘Generation 90’ follows on from and , two highly successful podcasts, authored by Bernardo Ferrão and Francisco Pedro Balsemão.
Júlia Palha thus opens the doors to the generation that grew up with the digital revolution and is anxious about the future. In ‘Generation 90’, we speak lightly of the weight that dreams and expectations carry.
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