The Parish Church of Nuestra Señora de Cortes de Nonduermas (Murcia) hosts this Saturday the consecration of the lyric singer Eduardo Pérez Orenes, who found God among the scores
While completing his degree in singing, Eduardo Pérez Orenes arrived at the seminar to put together his ideas and as soon as he arrived he felt this was his place. This Saturday, at 11 am, the parish church of Nuestra Señora de Cortes de Nonduermas (Murcia) will receive the priestly ordination of this lyrical singer who decided to turn his life around to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.
His first calling was singing. He studied at the Superior Conservatory of Murcia and participated in up to twelve choirs at a time. What he liked most was singing: sacred, old, Gregorian music. “I didn’t go to church by faith, but I did go to concerts.” So a feeling awoke in him. “The best thing he sang was magnified when it was in context.”
The liturgical celebrations seemed to him “a beautiful thing” and during his performances in the temples all he wanted was that what he sang became a real expression, where all the beauty of the lyrics came alive in him: “It was a longing that I felt, but it is clear that faith is a gift».
He continued his life as an artist, full of travels, extravagances and triumphs. Circumstances that took him away from that friendly life in the orchard in which he had grown up, living only for his success: «He always aspired for something more and, when your heart becomes so ambitious, everything and everyone becomes instruments to get more and more than you already have. Everything had to revolve around me and my successful career, prestige and fame. I didn’t love anyone anymore and I couldn’t see that this lifestyle could leave me alone. Some good friends saved me from my selfishness.
However, a book came into his hands that made him understand that everything he loved was in one place. A life of kindness and closeness that he had not felt in other places where he had been with his concerts. “When you go out, you have to go back to your roots. For me it was a shock to realize that this way of living in love and the best of humanity was given by the Church, like a mother who gives the best to her children,” he recalls.
Through art, music and lyrics he was able to discover what he felt for the Church he had turned his back on until now. He decided to resume the catechism and was confirmed. With his conversion, he eventually spent more time praying and talking to others about the faith than singing. “Until that time, no one around me had talked to me about God and I was thirsty to discover more.” Concerns then arose about his true calling, predominant to dedicate his life.
In his diaconate he served in the parish of El Salvador de Caravaca de la Cruz. For his ordination to the priesthood on September 10, he chose a verse from the Gospel of John: “Greater love has no one than he who lays down his life for his friends” (Jn 15:13). Because, he says, he felt a calling to sacrifice his life by those around him who disbelieve, by those who have not discovered the faith.
Source: La Verdad
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