“Father is stable…It was not easy for father to digest the sad news about Father Naylor but he is fine. He wanted to attend the memorial service of Father Naylor but we persuaded him to hold a requiem mass at hospital chapel on Sunday instead.”
As Hin Shing said, Fr Naylor never taught us; he came to Hong Kong in 1960.
He came to our Golden Jubilee Reunion celebration dinner in Hong Kong in 2011. One photo Hin Shing
attached to his email shows me talking to him, just the two of us. I remember the conversation.
Before the Reunion, I prepared to publish the 18 letters which Mr Patrick O’Flanagan wrote to me between 1963
to 1966, as a tribute to his beneficence and influence on me. (The article appears in the Features section of WYKAAO).
But I had some gaps in my knowledge, i.e. the year of his passing.
Hin Shing put me onto Fr Zee who referred me to Fr Naylor. I emailed him on July 14, 1999 and he replied
on July 20, 1999. I shall quote the part of his email related to him and Patrick: Continue reading
《願魏志立神父主懷安息》
願天父迎接
魏志立吾師
志尚行博愛
立心善無私
神人皆稱頌
父恩澤布施
主寵召回歸
懷抱榮耀時
安然離俗世
息勞享天飴
Dear Good Friends,
Sharing with you an extract of Father conducting mass today. His sermon is:
Christ likes children
In many parts of the Bible children is mentioned.
Hope to teach our children to be loving, honest, humble people when they grow up …
I (and perhaps other friends in the room too) could feel the strong bondage with God as well as Father. After the mass, though tired, Father felt happy and kept on giving us his iconic, sweet polite little smile. Please pray for Father ❤❤🙏🙏
No visitor, but good exercise!
This morning.
Yesterday mass. He was stable and in good spirit.