In Memory of Our Beloved Father - Rev. Lido Mencarini, P.I.M.E.
3rd May, 2007
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
May the Risen Christ grant us His Peace!
Our beloved chaplain, Rev. Lido Mencarini, PIME, passed away at the age of 90 on 2 May, 2007, at Canossa Hospital. We mourn over the passing yet thank the Lord for the gift of this holy priest, who gave us an example of zeal and patience for souls. Our ounces of tears will never match the tremendous amounts of good deeds and sound teachings we have learnt from him.
Last Saturday, on the eve of the Feast of the Good Shepherd, Mr. Cyril Law, Jr. and I paid Fr. Mencarini our last visit. He bid us never to forget this: ˇ§In sua voluntate est nostra paxˇ¨ (In His Will lies our peace -- Words of St. Augustine). Indeed God gave us the freedom to obey His Holy Will, and this sacred exchange (divinum commercium) renders us closely united with God on the path to the blessed life.
Fr. Mencarini loves the Church, and his lifelong dedication to the Diocese of Hong Kong was infused with a spirit of humility and of obedience. Moreover, his brilliant example of life is respectively reflected in the solemnity with which he offered the Sacrifice of the Mass, and not to mention his superlative skill in Gregorian Chant.
Christ is our resurrectio cum vita, He conquered death with death, thus ushered us into eternal life. God bids a respectable priest like Fr. Mencarini back to his side, and his faithful can do no more than to accept this fact in a mixed spirit of dolour and joy. We in good faithful ask that he prays for us.
Dear Father Mencarini, while cum beatis in Patria, forget us not in our trials! You need not drive all the way bi-weekly from Clearwater Bay to Cheung Sha Wan anymore; nor could pain and old age stricken you, for now you are at the Lambˇ¦s High Feast on high, at that celestial Liturgy, whereby God is at your side, our prayers under your eyes. Dear Father Mencarini, see you when we get There. Ciao!
Yours affectionately,
The Faithful of the Indult Tridentine Latin Mass, CSW
(Bro. Carlos Cheung, S.D.B.)