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Through decades of hard labour, priest perseveres PDF Print E-mail
Written by /www.cathnewsasia.com   
Wednesday, 07 July 2010 00:00
“Follow me!” Jesus said. Such words were enough to motivate Matthew, a tax collector sitting at a booth, to get up and follow Him. (Taiwanese priest Fr Matteo Chu, Asia News)

Sixty years ago, I graduated from high school and had the same thought and determination as Matthew did to follow Jesus. So I entered the Xujiahui Seminary in Shanghai and studied there. After three years, as a seminarian never involved in politics, I got caught up in the political turmoil caused by the incident of September 8, 1955 (when Bishop Ignatius Kung Pin-mei of Shanghai and 200 priests also from Shanghai were taken into custody). Hence, I was imprisoned for Jesus Christ.

During my 27 years of imprisonment in reform-through-labour centres, I had to do planting, reaping, picking up mud, pushing carts and keeping bees in the vast farms. God’s plan was to test my vocation. He was looking at me and said, “Now you are in jail. Do you really want to follow Jesus?”

In the last 10 of the 27 years of labouring in fields, I gained some degree of freedom. In those days, I could secretly listen to Vatican Radio’s Mandarin programmes. My whole spiritual life, my knowledge of Church teachings and news about the Church all depended on the radio, which helped nourished my spirituality. It became my greatest spiritual strength. How I acquired it is a secret.

Lord Jesus! My will was steadfast. I would get out of jail some day. I would still follow you closely. The Lord’s hand gradually led me to the United States, to accompany Bishop Kung for one year, where I assisted him in his Masses and chatted with him. At that time, I also took up some classes on Church liturgy.
 
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