Svd Priest Killed!

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That’s horrible!!!:mad:

It is very saddening that this happened to a good missionary priest, especially one so young. 😦

I will pray for him and for his murderer. I sincerely hope justice will be done.
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              Requiem aeternam dona ei Domine; et lux               perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat               in pace. Amen.*
 
Thank you, Frater Felmar, for sharing the terrible news with us. Yes, I will remember Fr. Madhu in my prayers.
 
Gosh, what a sad loss to your community.

God , please grant Fr Francis eternal rest and peace with you.
 
SLAIN SVD PRIEST: A HERO

Last Wednesday, April 4, 2007, the remains of the slain priest Fr. Fransiskus Madhu, SVD was brought to Christ the King Mission Seminary. As early as eight in the morning, several religious priests and nuns from different religious congregations, as well as laypeople eagerly awaited the arrival of his remains. The priests, most of whom are SVD Indonesians, agreed to wear their cassock as a way of saluting the missionary who laid his life in the service of God’s people.

“He is a hero to us. He died in the line of his priestly and missionary duty” one sister said. Leaving his country without informing his relatives in Indonesia, Fr. Fransiskus Madhu went to the Philippines on Palm Sunday of 2005 shortly after his ordination. A very humble, energetic and smiling priest, he was sent to Kalinga Province. Exactly two years after, he was also shot to death last Palm Sunday while already vested for the Holy Mass.

His body arrived at 1:45 in the afternoon and a loud cheer greeted him. Fr. Alfons Betan, his Spiritual Director when he was still a seminarian, laid the wreathe on his coffin. The SVD priests carried his casket and made a very sentimental procession to the Shrine of the Divine Word to celebrate the Holy Mass in his honor.

He will be buried at the Sementeryo ng Mga Relihiyoso at Christ the King Mission Seminary on Monday, April 9, 2007 after the Burial Mass at 3 pm.
 
MANILA, April 09 (CNA) - Father Fransiskus Madhu, a missionary of the Society of the Divine Wordwho was killed in April 1st in the Philippines and who was one of theyoungest priests in the country, was aware of the risks of hismissionary work and was willing to give his life for the Gospel,according to statements to reporters by his closest friends.

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We will include prayers for him and your entire congregation throughout the octave of Easter. Thank you for sharing the life and horrible sacrificial death of this very young priest.

God bless all of you and your mission work!
 
Friends, last Monday (April 9), Fr. Fransiskus Madhu, SVD was finally laid to rest in the Sementeryo ng Mga Relihiyoso at Christ the King Mission Seminary. Three bishops concelebrated in the burial mass, along with 161 priests, not including those who are not wearing vestments.

Fr. Gerry Gudmalin, SVD, addressed the congregation, including the Ambassador of Indonesia to the Philippines: “I am sorry for what happened to Fr. Francis. Just as you grieve for the loss of your citizen, I also grieve the loss of brother, my confrere.” He referred to Fr. Francis as his “brother, housemate and playmate.” He also made a remark that the life of Fr. Francis was “short but he lived it to the full.”

Fr. Gerry also shared the prayer he saw from the diary of Fr. Francis. I had the copy of it:

I believe that you are always with me to do my activities.
Please use me to have a good heart to hear the others;
To answer the need of your people.
Make my people also have the generosity
And transform them to always hear your word.

It was a consoling thought that the day of the burial was actually a bonding trip for Fr. Gerry and Fr. Francis. “He was very excited,” Fr. Gerry said. But certainly, the Indonesian priest had another bonding trip – that trip with the angels to bring him into His Creator to bond with Him forever!
 
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