Marcos Enrique Man On A Mission To Grow & Strengthen The Church

Masconomo Council 1232’s November dinner speaker Marcos Enrique is a seminarian with a difference. In his ninth year of studies, he expects to be ordained a deacon next year. Why so long in seminaries in DC and Brighton? After receiving his undergraduate degree at Catholic University of America and two graduate degrees in philosophy, Marcos left the seminary for a period of discernment to put his calling to the test. That time was well spent as a lay Cristo Rey teacher for young men in “underserved areas” in Cambridge and Dorchester, Massachusetts lacking faith-based education.

Marcos Enrique returned to seminary life at St John’s in Brighton where he is pursuing his vocation to the priesthood while working with young people, especially in the Hispanic community in the Dorchester and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods of Boston.

A brother knight asked Marcos how he would recommend “getting through” to youth who seem “turned off” to religion and faith after confirmation. Marcos replied “that is a chronic problem and “too often kids are bored and tune out. We have to make religion relevant to them. Jesus Christ has to come into their lives and light them afire.”

Marcos Enrique knows the New Evangelization. He and his family consisting of his parents and ten siblings live it. At the age of eight, twenty four years ago, he came to America from Spain when the Archdiocese of Boston recruited his parents, followers of The Neo-Catechumenal Way, to minister to the growing community of Spanish speakers as a lay apostolate.

Marcos and his family never looked back. Now he is on his journey toward the priesthood.