Posted on 05/11/2013 4:27:38 PM PDT by NYer
.- A three-year-old Colombian boy has garnered attention across the internet for a video in which he dons priestly garments and “celebrates” Mass, reciting the liturgy from memory.
Samuel Jaramillo, who is an orphan, lives with his grandmother and an aunt in the city of Medellin. When family members posted a video of the boy pretending to celebrate Mass on YouTube, it gained rapid popularity, attracting nearly 300,000 views in just over a week.
His relatives told reporters that last Christmas, Jaramillo did not ask for toys like most kids his age. Instead, he wanted “priest’s clothes” and the objects necessary to “celebrate” Mass.
He has learned to recite the Mass from memory with the corresponding pauses, intonations and gestures of an experienced priest.
In a reflection published by El Colombiano, Father Daniel Monsalve noted Jaramillo’s “passion for what he says and the tenderness that inspires him” in the videos.
“Amid a changing world that is at times indifferent to religious matters, this child appears as a testimony of love for God and fascination for sacred celebrations, most certainly fostered by those who care for him and by the priest of his parish,” Fr. Monsalve wrote.
Cases like that of Jaramillo “should not only awaken religious fervor but also serve as an example for the promotion of priestly and religious vocations, supported always by the encouragement of parishes, seminaries and houses of formation,” he added.
Jaramillo’s aunt, Elizabeth Rojas Arango, said, “This isn’t something we taught him, and we don’t even attend church,” but Jaramillo goes to Mass every Sunday and on Tuesdays with his grandmother, Rosa Eva Arango.
Rojas Arango said the decision to post the videos of Samuel online was not “to try to make him popular, but because they are moving.”
Jaramillo knows the Creed by heart and even preaches his own homilies.
In an interview with RCN television, Jaramillo said he wants to be a priest when he grows up.
Fr. Monsalve said that when people see Jaramillo, “They will be amazed and will be unable to resist clicking on ‘Like’ or ‘Share.’ However, it will be God who continues speaking to humanity through the nobility and humility of his littlest children, the favorites of the Kingdom of Heaven.”
He also underscored the role of parents and relatives in the education of children.
“Parents and all those involved in the care of children must continue to fulfill that essential role of giving testimony and encouragement,” he said.
Absolutely adorable child, ping!
I don’t think most 3 year olds are capable of that
Cardinal Dolan used to do this as a child, and he would make his family attend and play the various parts. But, I think CD was more like 6.
I can’t get this video to play on my computer. It keeps saying that “an error has occurred”. I went elsewhere to access it, and I got the message that the video contained a “malicious Java bot”.
I had no problems and no warning messages. Sorry, it didn’t work for you.
Future Pope?
Maybe they could take a day or two to teach this little guy English, then send him over to me so he can help me learn the revised English translations of the "Nicene Creed" and the "Gloria"! :-)
:-)
A lot of Catholics of my generation (pre-Vatican 2) played Mass. We also dressed up as nuns. I can still remember my mother fooling around with the bobby pins to keep my “habit” on. I think it was a pillowcase!
And here is yet another one of the child saying mass.
ROFL!!! If not him, perhaps his “sacristan” ; - )
I remember smashing down pieces of sandwich bread to be the “host”! :-) We once had a pastor in our church, who did the same thing as a child. Of course he became a priest later on to serve the “real” thing! We all learned that when we read he was coming to our parish.
I remember smashing down pieces of sandwich bread to be the “host”! :-) We once had a pastor in our church, who did the same thing as a child. Of course he became a priest later on to serve the “real” thing! We all learned that when we read he was coming to our parish.
Oops, I got carried away with the “post” button; sorry!
When I was in the second grade and was taught how to baptize someone in case of emergency. My cousin and I use to play that our dolls were dying and we had to do an emergency baptism. How sick was that?
Can’t understand a thing that’s going on here.
Of course, being a traditional Tridentine Mass adherent I guess I wouldn’t.
That’s the problem with the post-Vatican II Novus Ordo mass in the vernacular: it varies so from country to country (as well as from parish to parish in the US) that when one is visiting it’s impossible to determine what is being said.
Neither one of those will work for me. I keep getting “an error has occurred”. There must be something wrong with my computer.
When I was in second grade my cousin and I used to pretend we were married to the Monkees. me, Davey Jones. She was Mickey Dolenz’s girl.
Yes, you had to smash down the plastic white bread to get the proper thinness. I’m wondering why we never used round cookie cutters to get the right shape...
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