ISSUE # 37 April-June 2009 | Feature
In Love After 25 Years
The Vocation Story of
Fr. Bruno Rampazzo, RCJ
By Joy Sosoban
 A journey of a lifetime begins with a single step.
That single step for Fr. Bruno Rampazzo, RCJ,
started in 1968 at the young age of 11 when
he decided to enter a Rogationist seminary in
Padua, Italy. This is his journey about family and
falling in love.
Being Open to the Call “I liked our parish priest,” Fr. Bruno explained about his
main influence why he entered the seminary. “He was a person
who took care of us.”
So when Don Antonio, the parish priest, asked
if he would be interested to join the seminary, Fr.
Bruno said yes. The place was just 18 kilometers
away from home and his parents were allowed to
visit once a month. (The Italian system required
that those who seek the religious life enter at the
minor seminary level.) After two weeks in the
seminary, Fr. Bruno tried to find an excuse in order
to go home saying he had some commitment to
attend to, struck as he was by homesickness.
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The Road to Damascus
By Fr. Ulrich Gacayan, RCJ
 “I persecuted this Way to death, binding and
delivering to prison both men and women, as the
high priest and the whole council of elders bear me
witness. From them I received letters to the brethren,
and I journeyed to Damascus to take those also who
were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to
be punished” (Acts 22:4-5).
The Need to be on the Road
To be found by God, one has to stay along the road. The examples of
Bartimaeus (Mk.10:46) and that of Zaccheus (Lk.19:2) are powerful examples
of this encounter. To meet the Master, one has to stay by the road, open to
each and every possibility. Paul’s journey to Damascus brought something
unexpected – beyond what Saul had in mind. There was one thing clear in
his mind: “to bring them bound to Jerusalem” (Acts 9:2), “persecuting the
Way, binding and delivering to prison
both men and women” (Acts 22:4), “journeyed to Damascus with authority
and commission of the chief priests.”
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