Once in a while, you come across a person who is clothed with an aura of holiness. I met quite a few of them in my life, some priests, some sisters and just lay people who didn’t do any thing extraordinary, but accomplished simple gestures with a lot of love. One of these is a priest who just died and is being buried today. Fr Joseph Mifsud Bonnici was a humble priest, a model for many of us, for a while the Rector of the Seminary, director of priest personnel in the diocese, a pastor of a new parish in 1976 where I served for a whole year as a deacon and who was an inspiration for me. His brother was an ex-Prime Minister of Malta, another brother as well as his daughter parliamentarians, a nephew is an Auxiliary Bishop, and yet Father Joseph lived quietly and humbly without any fanfare or pretentions of any kind. 2 years ago I met him and wrote a profile about his life in a local Maltese Catholic newspaper. Ordained in April 1962, he served as a priest for 64 years, and from over 20 fellow priests ordained with him, only 6 are still alive. May God reward you Father Joseph, also known as Beppe (short for Giuseppe.)
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