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Paul Guy MSC, Requiem Mass and Burial

Peter Guy  MSC with Rochus Tatamai MSC and confreres.

Reflection by Rochus Tatamai MSC, former Bishop of Bereina, now Archbishop of Rabaul.

There's a lot to reflect on and contemplate upon today as I personally recall Fr Paul Guy MSC, my elder brother in the faith, an MSC confrere in Religious Life, a brother priest sharing in the Priesthood of Jesus Christ, my mentor and Spiritual Director as pilgrims on earth, my confessor and Confidant in the discernment process searching out God's Divine will, my best friend and colleague in recreation and light moments, the person whom I fondly addressed as "my lord", even as a younger and inexperienced priest just beginning the initial steps going forward as an amateur shepherd in the vineyard of the Lord at St Joseph's Parish Boroko,(1990-1992) Port Moresby NCD. PNG.

Even when I prematurely resisted and pleaded earnestly against the then Provincial Superior late Fr Neville Dunne MSC not to be appointed to a city Parish let alone to be Assistant Parish Priest to Fr Paul Guy MSC at St Joseph Parish Boroko, Fr Neville Dunne's humble appeal to the young Rocky then 1989/1990 was " Rocky, please don't cross your bridges even before you in fact even crossed them". That response was an honest and challenging feedback that easily melted my hard-hearted heart to succumb to the prompting of the Holy Spirit "to swallow my personal pride and resistance and humbly accept my official appointment to St Joseph as Assistant Parish Priest and Vocations Director of the MSC PNG PROVINCE (a position I held from 1989 - 1997 @ 8 years in total).

During my years as a young priest especially 1990 - 1995, Fr Paul Guy MSC played a vital role as a companion and mentor who always respectfully and sometimes teasingly fondly would address me as "my lord" an address person to person we both mutually exchanged with respect and high regard.

Reverend Fr Paul Guy MSC you are surely a humble and most deserving "guy" of the highest recognition as the most unannounced deserving "monsignor" for your humble Pastoral care and personal sensitivity to all the half-cast mixed race population in Port Moresby, Bereina, Central Province and the rest of PNG.

And in your exact word, you reminiscently boasted that, "you (I) baptized them, you (I) heard their first sincere confessions, you (I) celebrated and gave them their First Holy Communion in their respective Parishes, you(I) prepared them for their solemn celebration of the Sacrament Confirmation, you(I) celebrated and joined them in Holy Matrimony, and surely you happily cried with them and buried them in their respective cemeteries in Hanuabada, Badili, Boroko, Gerehu, Hohola. 9mile, Bereina, etc, in all these Parishes, Churches, schools, institutions Cemeteries.

With thanks to John Walker MSC for screen shots of the Mass and graveside photos.

RIP, Paul Guy MSC

Peter Hendriks writes:  We have received the sad news that Fr Paul Guy MSC died just now in Prince of Wales. Peter Guy was with him at the time and said he died peacefully.

Paul and Peter celebrated their 77^th birthday on Monday. Paul was a vowed MSC for 55 years and ordained for 50 years.

He spent most of those 50 years in PNG, in the archdiocese of Port Moresby and in the adjacent diocese of Bereina, the diocese of the MSC mission foundation of Yule Island.

May he rest in peace.

Peter and Paul Guy MSC celebrating a Golden Jubilee of ordination, May 17^th.

Peter and Paul

Our congratulations and a re-visit to the past!

Paul and Peter

For more than 25 years, Peter has been working for the Ukrainian Uniate Church and was made an archpriest.  After many years working in New South Wales and South Australia, he moved to Lourdes where for many years he was host to Ukrainian pilgrims visiting Lourdes. Peter has had two terms as Community Leader at Kensington Monastery, where he is at present.

For most of his 50 years ministry, Paul has been working in PNG, especially in the Diocese of Bereina.