On May 11, 2013, Our Priory of St. Dominic honored one of its members on his Golden Jubilee as a Dominican Priest. The joyful celebration began with a solemn Mass and continued with a fraternal agape in a Macau restaurant.
The Eucharistic celebration took place in our chapel in the evening and was also attended by Dominican brothers from our communities in Hong Kong and the Dominican sisters Missionaries of the Rosary and their postulants. Presided by Fr. Jose Luis de Miguel, OP, our dear Golden Jubilarian as a Dominican priest, the Holy Mass was concelebrated by about twenty priests, most of them our Dominican brothers, and animated with appropriate songs and hymns by our student brothers and the postulants of the Dominican sisters. A few lay friends of the community accompanied us. In his moving homily, Fr. Jose Luis voiced his boundless gratitude to God for the unmerited gift of vocation.
During the banquet with exquisite Chinese food, which followed the religious celebration, our students with the Dominican sisters and their postulants presented an entertaining program of songs. Our Fr. Provincial Javier Gonzalez, OP, congratulated Fr. Jose Luis for this great milestone and thanked him for his continuing apostolic work in our Dominican Province of Our Lady of the Rosary. Likewise our Bishop of Macau, the Most Rev. Joseph Lai, DD, thanked the Golden Jubilarian and the Dominicans for their appreciated work in his Diocese. The thanksgiving was concluded with the simple and heart-felt gratitude of the honoree.
The celebration continued the next day, May 12, Ascension Sunday and Mothers’ Day, which happened to be this year the birthdate of Fr. Jose Luis. The Eucharistic celebration, attended by our friends and faithful participants in our Sunday masses, was followed by a simple lunch for all.
Fr. Jose Luis, congratulations, more years to your life in our community, and … the journey continues!
