God bless your soul, Alaister: may you rest in peace!

Mr. Alaister Lim was a young parishioner and occasional altar server at the Bl. John Henry Newman Parish (exclusively dedicated to the Traditional Latin Mass), in Melbourne, Australia.

This was his departing letter to his pastor and priests, and fellow parishioners:

June 11, 2015

Dearest Reverend Fathers Tattersall, Marshall, and McDaniels; brothers and sisters of the Newman Parish in Christ,

It is with great sadness that I say goodbye to you through this letter, and not in person. My health is rapidly deteriorating, at this time, after an X-ray scan, I have only half a functioning left lung, all else defective (my lungs, not the rest of my organs!). This means I cannot travel great distances, as the trip would be way too taxing on me.

Dear Fathers, your spiritual guidance has strengthened my faith so much, I’ve said many times that I’ve learned so much more about my faith in my one and a half years there than I did in my entire life, and I mean every word of it. Thank you for all you’ve done for me, the Masses you’ve offered for me, for the honour of letting me serve your Masses, and also for your friendship. May God bless all of you abundantly for the good works that you do.

Good and faithful servants! May they rest in peace!

Those who had the privilege of personally knowing the Rev. Father Prior of the Abbey of Our Lady of Fontgombault, Dom Yves Chauveau, OSB, could not but know that they were in the presence of a deeply holy man, one of those souls carefully sculpted in praise and prayer.

After months of disability following a stroke, he was called by the Lord yesterday evening. May he rest in peace!

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Also called by the Lord this Friday was the Rev. Father Denis Coiffet, a founding member of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP), and for many years the chaplain of the largest Catholic pilgrimage in the world today, the Chartres pilgrimage: