Top officials join Hong Kong Catholics in packed cathedral for Bishop Michael Yeung’s funeral mass
- Late reverend to be buried at St Michael’s Catholic Cemetery in Happy Valley
Hong Kong’s top leaders streamed into a packed cathedral for Bishop Michael Yeung Ming-cheung’s funeral mass on Friday morning, before the late reverend was to be buried in a cemetery in Happy Valley.
After a vigil mass presided over by Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun and an overnight mass that began on Thursday evening, the funeral mass commenced in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Mid-Levels at 10am on Friday, presided over by the diocese’s acting head, Bishop John Tong Hon.
“He paid great attention to the young people, and for two years in a row decided that the younger generation should be the top priority of pastoral work,” said Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha Chi-shing, in his homily.
He recalled that Yeung announced in his inaugural mass in 2017 that the Catholic Church should help reconcile social conflicts in Hong Kong.
Ha said that Yeung was most troubled by criticism over his comments on various social controversies, but he never spared any effort to “answer the calling of God’s love”.