Catholic Missionary Priest in Angola Eulogized for Witnessing “God’s love for the poor”

Vincentians eulogize Fr. Jorge as a “living testimony of God’s love for the poor and marginalized.”

“P. Jorge, with his prophetic vision, has profoundly renewed the way we live our Vincentian mission in the modern world,” CM members say.

They recall his role in their Communication office, saying, “As Director of the Communications Office, he has embraced new technologies not as an end but as a tool to spread the Vincentian charism.”

They note that “his work in creating the official website of the Congregation has been a beacon of light, uniting confreres in every corner of the world, transforming the digital space into a virtual but profoundly concrete community of faith and service.”

“P. Jorge was a true son of St. Vincent, a man who saw in the digital world a new mission territory, a place to evangelize and kindle the fire of charity in the hearts of young people,” members of the CM Communication office say.

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They go on to say that Fr. Jorge “understood that our charism must be lived and transmitted also through contemporary languages, in order to reach the lives of the marginalized of the digital society.”

“That is why he was constantly studying and keeping himself up to date, so as not to be left behind and to offer a special service to the whole Little Company,” Vincentians say in the statement from their Communication office.

Fr. Jorge, they continue, “often worried about brothers working in areas without connection or in countries suffering from the digital divide, because he feared that they would be excluded from the life of the CM, whereas he wanted the digital space to become a chapel where all the brothers could be united in one community.”

They add that Fr. Jorge “strongly believed in the need to build bridges between different cultures.”

Fr. Jorge has gone to the “side of the saints and blessed the congregation to intercede for us; he, who is an expert in communication, will now accept our prayers and help us to present them to God,” the January 15 statement says.

In another statement providing details of the Funeral Mass of the late Catholic Missionary Priest, CM members say, “Fr. Jorge served our community with devotion and unconditional love, and now we join together to honor his memory and celebrate his life dedicated to the service of God and His children.”

The Funeral Mass has been scheduled for January 17, to be followed by a procession to the Municipal Cemetery of Malanje – Cafuma where he is be laid to rest, according to CM members.

João Vissesse is an Angolan Journalist with a passion and rich experience in Catholic Church Communication and Media Apostolate.