25 Years of Religious Life
Already 25 years (07/09/1998-07/09/2023) since Brothers Vitalis T. Nyuysever, Donatus M. Wirkom, Francis B. Dor and Cyril Kerla vowed their Yes to God. This anniversary was hectically celebrated in Shisong Sacred Heart Parish (Kumbo Diocese), on Saturday 09-09-2023. It was a moment to thank God for his faithfulness and love; a celebration prepared for through a spiritual retreat in St. Mary of the Angels’ Fraternity Sop, preached by Fr. Andrew Ngah Solii (a priest from Kumbo Diocese). He invited the brothers to look back at the years past, and then, thank God for the 25 years of witnessing as friars. Furthermore, he indulged them to beg from God, forgiveness for the moments of poor witnessing. This would permit them to start afresh the life they had embraced, following the invitation of St. Francis to the friars as he neared death: “Let us begin again for until now we have done nothing.”
Before this great celebration, the Custos, Br. Kenneth Kinyuy, in his circular of August 30, 2023, had addressed the brothers saying: “Dear Brothers Vitalis, Donatus, Francis and Cyril, I humbly beckon you to strive and persevere in your Religious Franciscan-Capuchin vocation in such a way as to become a vivid response to God’s injunction in Leviticus, ‘The Jubilee will be a holy thing for you.’ (25:12). Holiness is the universal target we must never lose sight of. The jubilee is an opportunity to bring back to mind this reality.”
Dear Jubilarians (Brothers Vitalis, Donatus, Francis and Cyril), may God, through the intercession of St. Francis and St. Clare, through the maternal intercession of Mother Mary, continue to bless, guide and lead you in this noble and happy vocation.
