A young man, Raveen Perera was being welcomed into his native village on18th July 1992 to be ordained a priest in the very church where he was once baptised as a baby. Even though the Catholic bastion of Pamunugama peninsula....
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It is one year since Chandra Tennekoon bid farewell to us on July 29 last year. As his wife Ranjani and their two sons Chamath and Yathindra prepare to have a sermon followed by an almsgiving in memory of Chandra aiya, I pen a few thoughts of Chandra, who has left a void behind him.
“I have had the privilege of working closely with the late General Kobbekaduwa when he was the Security Forces Commander in Wanni and subsequently at the Joint Operations Command in Colombo.
Lee Man-hee, Chairman of Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (Shincheonji), sent a message to thank the Shincheonji members in Daegu who decided to donate their plasma needed in developing the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus infection) vaccine.
‘The Lord gave, and now he has taken away. May his name be praised!’ (Job. 1:21). It’s three months since our uncle Fr. Raveen Perera was called to rest in the Lord. We miss him very much and we as family understood that there are so many others who genuinely miss him as well. It is because of the exemplary priestly life he lived and the Love of Jesus that he was able to radiate love to all who came to him.
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