{"id":4592,"date":"2025-10-03T20:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:54:51","slug":"jubilee-around-the-world-father-danilo-cantillo-being-witnesses-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/jubilee-around-the-world-father-danilo-cantillo-being-witnesses-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Jubilee Around the World: Father Danilo Cantillo, \u201cBeing Witnesses of Hope\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;We are invited to animate the missionary spirit of the diocese in which we find ourselves. Photo: Jaime C. Patias<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI am a missionary by vocation, but a nurse by profession. My formative journey was about moving from profession to vocation. So I left my work as a nurse and began studying philosophy in Bogot\u00e1. Then I completed the Novitiate in Bucaramanga, an extraordinary experience because I learned who the Consolata Missionaries are.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Jaime C. Patias *<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With these words, Father Danilo Jos\u00e9 Baballero Cantillo summarizes his educational and vocational journey in the context of his priestly ordination Jubilee (25 years) and in harmony with the Jubilee of Hope. Originally from Pasacaballo, a village in the municipality of Cartagena on Colombia\u2019s Caribbean coast, where the Consolata Missionaries have been working for several years, Father Danilo is currently in Spain, where he is responsible for the Missionary Pastoral Ministry of the Diocese of M\u00e1laga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Giubileo nel mondo: Padre Danilo Cantillo, \u201cessere testimoni di speranza\u201d\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C4qp61sbXG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Father Danilo studied theology in London, England. In 1999 he was ordained a priest in Pasacaballo and sent to Venezuela, where he worked for 10 years, a life of dedication and service. \u201cI worked in a very needy Afro-descendant community (Barlovento), where I truly felt like a missionary among the least, because it was a population abandoned by the entire world,\u201d explains the missionary, who in Venezuela was also involved in formation work before later being transferred to Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeing responsible for the Mission in the Diocese of M\u00e1laga makes me feel one hundred percent a missionary. Because this is the charism we share with Saint Joseph Allamano. In the Institute, we are invited to foster the missionary spirit of the diocese in which we are located. So I feel fully fulfilled. I am working with conviction, with closeness, with prudence, and with discernment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo4-1024x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo4-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo4-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo4-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo4.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A group of young people from Malaga during a meeting in preparation for their mission in Colombia. Photo: Danilo Cantillo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For him, the canonization of Saint Joseph Allamano (October 20, 2024) represents a milestone that drives the mission forward. This year, Father Danilo celebrates 25 years of ordination and considers the Founder\u2019s canonization an important moment in his life because \u201cit has given me momentum and reminded me where his sanctification began: among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. This makes me reflect on where I should place myself as a Consolata missionary and what my priorities should be,\u201d he notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to celebrate my 25 years of ordination in the light of the sanctification of Saint Joseph Allamano, which gives me great motivation to always be at the side of those most in need, because his sanctification came precisely through the miracle granted in favor of the indigenous Sorino (Yanomami),\u201d explains Father Danilo. He adds that the Founder\u2019s sanctification \u201cis what drives me and makes me feel I am on mission, not to be served but to serve, always seeking out those most in need. And I am experiencing this Jubilee in an incredible way because I have met several fellow priests who are also celebrating their 25th anniversary of ordination,\u201d he affirms, referring to the renewal course held in Rome in May 2025 with the participation of 16 missionaries (15 priests and 1 brother).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/202505010Corso-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/202505010Corso-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/202505010Corso-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/202505010Corso-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/202505010Corso.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Participants in the G25 continuing education course in Rome in May 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this reminds him that he is on a journey of ongoing formation and that without the Word of Jesus lived daily, he could not move forward, knowing that the context of mission changes and must be constantly renewed. The course reminded him of two principles of mission: 1. \u201cI cannot live without the Word of God;&#8221; 2. This bond with the Word \u201cmakes me feel that it is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me and sends me forth as a Consolata missionary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the issues raised by the Jubilee, Father Danilo highlights the challenge of rekindling his \u201cbeing a missionary\u201d in a European context with so many needs. \u201cDuring this Jubilee, with the theme of missionaries as witnesses of hope, over the past year a group of nine Spanish young people has been preparing to share hope with the poor of Bar\u00fa, on Colombia\u2019s coast. We hope that the people of Pasacaballo will feel filled with hope and that this group of young Spaniards will return from this mission experience with greater hope in this Jubilee Year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* <em>Father Jaime C. Patias, IMC, Communications Office<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consolataafrica.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251003Danilo5.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am a missionary by vocation, but a nurse by profession. My formative journey was about moving from profession to vocation. 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