Among the 29 new priests of Opus Dei is Wai Leung. He is 35 years old and has a degree in literature.
Wai was not a Catholic. He converted at the age of 17, after two years of catechesis at the University of Hong Kong. Now in Rome, he is preparing a thesis on the links between Christianity and Confucianism at a pontifical university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FR. WAI LEUNG<\/strong> Wai says that in Hong Kong alone, in recent years, some 3,000 adults have been baptized each year. A figure that, he says, gives hope to the local Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n FR. WAI LEUNG<\/strong> Japanese Bishop Paul Toshihiro presided over the ordination of these new priests of Opus Dei, who hail from nineteen countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":68393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/87FCem6KSJw","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bordenacioneschinoygiaponeseeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bordenacioneschinoygiaponeseint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68402,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68391\/revisions\/68402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
They both talk about family and also the community. Because we don\u2019t live alone. We are living with our friends, our family\u2026 and also the openness to all.
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Fr. Wai's conversion to Catholicism encouraged his two younger brothers and, later, his own mother.
FR. WAI LEUNG<\/strong>
My mom passed away last year. But she got baptized the year before. Actually, she passed away right on the first anniversary of her baptism. I show that as a sign of faith. I mean, it was a long journey and my mom was baptized two years ago, at the Vigil Mass.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think it is a very positive future for us. Because the Gospel has not spread to all the corners of my country. So, people are open to the message of Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another of the new priests is Fr. Alberto Hikaru of Japan, where Catholics are a minority. In spite of this, Alberto also sees elements of hope.
FR. ALBERTO HIKARU
<\/strong>I think that the Catholic Church, well Christianity, can contribute a lot to Japan, in the sense that it is a religion that speaks above all of concern for others, of living for others and Japan is a society that has traditionally valued that very much.
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Fr. Hikaru says he sees emptiness in society caused by the lack of faith.
FR. ALBERTO HIKARU<\/strong>
A few years ago, when I was in college, a friend of mine was telling me that he felt a little sorry for me because, he said, \u201cI wish what you tell me about Christianity was true. I wish I had someone who really loved me. Not for what I do or for what I'm worth, but just to love me and that's it.\u201d And he said it to me with a certain pity. It hurt me a lot to hear that. But if people realized that there is someone who loves them and has loved them before they realize it, I think that would help people a lot.
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Japanese Bishop Paul Toshihiro presided over the ordination of these new priests of Opus Dei, who hail from nineteen countries.
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