null / Credit: Father Luis Ángel Espinosa, LC/CathopicACI Prensa Staff, Mar 19, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).In 2023 the Legionaries of Christ religious order will provide 32 new priests for service to the Church. Twenty-nine of them will be ordained in Rome in the papal basilica of St. Mary Major on April 29 by Cardinal Fernando Vérguez, president of the Governorate of the State of Vatican City.The other three will receive priestly ordination at different times of the year.The soon-to-be new priests of the Legionaries of Christ come from Germany, Colombia, Chile, South Korea, Canada, Brazil, El Salvador, Spain, the United States, Italy, Mexico, and Venezuela.The April 29 ordination in Rome can be viewed live on the congregation s website at 10 a.m. Rome time.Speaking with ACI Prensa, CNA s Spanish-language news partner, Miguel Esponda Sada, a seminarian of the Legionaries of Christ who will be ordained a priest this year, said that "to be a priest is to be a sign and living presence .