Los años de seminario y de ordenación de José María Escrivá (1918-1925) / The seminary and ordination years of José María Escrivá (1918-1925)

José María Escrivá’s youth gave his life direction. In 1918 he felt that God was calling him to become a diocesan priest. For seven years he received the human, spiritual and academic formation of the time in the seminaries of Logroño and Zaragoza. In 1924 he started a Law degree. In March 1925, Escrivá received the priestly ordination and celebrated his first mass. The ceremony was bittersweet, as the joy of fulfilling his dream of becoming a priest was accompanied by the pain of his father’s recent death.