Three Chinese OMI candidates in our formation houses
by: Jun Mercado, OMI
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1/15/2010
(L-R) Ming Xin Ren (Aloysius), Paul Shen Xiao Long and Peter Peng Chui
There are three Chinese OMI candidates in the Philippine formation program. One is a novice, Aloysius or Ming Xin Ren and two postulants: Paul Shen Xiao Long from Shan Xi Province and Peter Peng Chui from Beijing.
The postulants stayed sometime in Tamontaka to get to know the people and the place. At present, they are staying with our scholastics in Manila while following an intensive English course. Fr. Phil Estrella takes charge of the two Chinese postulants while in Manila.
Paul Shen Xiao Long is 28 years old. He was seven years in the Xi An Seminary in his home province (Shan Xi) in China before joining the OMI.
Q. How did you come in contact with the OMI’s?
A. My classmate in the seminary introduced me to the OMI giving the OMI pamphlets.
Q. Who is the first Oblate priest you’ve met?
A. I met Fr. Irek who was then studying Mandarin in Beijing with Fr. David Ulrich. He requested Fr. Irek to visit the Xi An seminary in order to see me.
Q. When did you enter the Xi An Seminary?
A. I entered the seminary in 2001.
Q. When did you feel you have a vocation to the priesthood?
A. In 2000, our parish priest gave a talk about seminary life and the vocation to the priesthood. I felt I have a vocation thus I entered the seminary in 2001.
Q. How long have you been a Christian?
A. I am a Catholic from birth in a family of four generations of Catholics.
Q. What was your job/work before entering the seminary?
A. I was working as a miner for two years and one year in a factory.
Q. Why do you want to become an OMI?
A. When my friend introduced the OMI to me, "it was love at first sight" and I joined the OMI community as a postulant.
Peter or Peng Chui is twenty six years old from Beijing. He was in Beijing diocesan seminary (2002 to 2008) for seven years before joining the postulancy program of the OMI in September of 2008.
Q. How long have you been a Christian?
A. I became a Christian in Beijing in 2000. Before Easter of 2000 (Holy Thursday), I entered the Catholic Church and participated in the liturgical celebration. I was attracted to the faith and get instructions for three months before I was baptized.
Q. What was your job/work before entering the seminary?
A. I was working in a supermarket for six months and an auto-mechanic for a year.
Q. When did you feel you have a vocation to the priesthood?
A. In 2000, I attended a seminar on the priesthood and in 2001, I felt the call to the priesthood and this became stronger as the days went by.
Q. When did you enter the Beijing Diocesan Seminary?
A. I entered the seminary in 2002.
Q. How did you come in contact with the OMI’s?
A. In Christmas of 2006, I met an OMI, Fr. Irek, who visited our seminary.
Q. Why do you want to become an OMI?
A. I talked with Fr. Irek for a long time and he invited me to visit the OMI community in Hongkong. While staying in the OMI community, I felt called to the OMI. I joined the OMI postulancy program in 2008.
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