INSPIRING PRIEST IN CHINA
(sharing of my student Seminarian Martin from China)
After two years of hard work, finally most of the underground church faithful came to join the Holy Mass that Fr. Zhu Junchang celebrated.
It has been a church scandal since then, the local church was divided upon misunderstanding of some; with the intervention of the government and the so-called “patriotic church” or patriotic association rather, the affair became more serious; to the point, that they avoid to pray together, hate each other, and mostly refused to participate each other’s mass, and rumor even says the Mass is invalid.
Fr. Zhu was transferred to such a parish, and it was there that he started his ministry years ago. Fr. Zhu was such a kind of conservative, a man of prayer, and mostly he is a man of full of enthusiasm when it comes to ministry. He would go all the details when it comes to application for marriage, so much so the marriage that would be a happy one; he even ask help from bishop, and that is why some do not like him simply because it takes so long to have a valid marriage in the Church. Fr. Zhu was very thoughtful; he would go to village by village to celebrate the Holy Mass for those who are in inconvenience.
With much prayers and concerns, the new church constructed in his parish. While the church was under construction Fr. Zhu went to families of those faithful who are belonged to the so-called underground church for whom has no place of their liturgical celebration. When it is time for the new church to be blessed, surprisingly, many faithful from underground church come to join the joyful celebration, and from now on, the union with Christ in the Church binds them together.
from Martin Cui
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