Agenzia Fides, the information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies, reported on June 20, that the ordinations of ten deacons and two priests were signs of hope for the Chinese people.
Bishop Joseph Xing Wen Zhi, the auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Shang Hai ordained seven deacons on June 18 with over a thousand of the faithful and 78 priests in attendance. More than 1,900 people attended the ordinations of two priests of the dioceses of Ba Meng, Inner Mongolia on May 31. The diocese of Kaohsiung in Taiwan celebrated the ordination of three deacons also.
Can you imagine? Nineteen-hundred people coming to see the ordination of two priests?
May God bless and protect the Church in China.
