With a procession enriched by traditional Phnong music, songs and dances, the population accompanied the young man to the church, for the “gift of a young Phnong to God”.
“As a priest one is called to serve, to give his life and to distribute the sacraments of God for Catholics,” said Bun Hong Prak, the new priest. At the Holy Mass of the ordination rite, Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler, Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh, said with joy: “The proclamation of the Gospel in a remote area is taking shape”.
The ordination ceremony took place on June 29 at the Church of St. John the Baptist in the Busra community, in Mondulkiri province, located in northeastern Cambodia, more than 500 km from the capital, Phnom Penh. This area is mainly inhabited by the Phnong ethnic minority.
The celebration was attended by 52 priests from 3 dioceses and, on that occasion, the Bishop asked all priests to “encourage, welcome and be a model for the new priest, to live in fraternity as a family in Jesus Christ and to be united in God”.
According to khmertimeskh.com
