Washington D.C., Apr 4, 2017 / 05:02 am
Jaime Maldonado-Aviles thought that he would be spending his life behind microscopes at Yale as a neuroscientist. But his life has taken a dramatic turn, and he is now discerning the priesthood at Theological College seminary at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
"I have to seriously explore these questions," Maldonado-Aviles said of a constant nagging he felt towards the priesthood.
"At different times, the question would come back: If I see myself at 90 years old, close to death, would I say to myself, 'I should have entered seminary?'" he told the Washington Post.
Maldonado-Aviles was 34 and working at Yale as a neuroscientist in a post-doctoral position when he seriously began to explore the pull towards priesthood that he had felt his whole life.