NOW that I am soon to be 86 years old I can reflect gratefully on the goodness of God.

1. I am happy to be called a man of God.

2. By that call I have made people aware of the poorest of people in Jamaica and in other countries.

3. I love my religious brothers and sisters more than my own life.

4. God gave me the talent of arts and music which I have used to express the beauty and goodness of the Lord and our island.

5. Though I am weak and an undeserving sinner God has been good to me, granting me a people and a country who have received Christ and His divine goodness and love.

Now that I am an elderly:

1. I pray that the work with the poor will endure.

2. I pray that the brothers and sisters in our religious life will endure.

3. I pray that the art, music and productions will endure.

4. I pray that God’s love will endure in the hearts of this country and that Jesus will always be the source of our life.

I thank Major Brown for the use of the National Arena over many years.

I thank Christopher Zacca and Sagicor.

I thank Jamaica Public Service Company and Winsome Callum.

I thank LP Azar, especially Andrew and family.

I thank the Mahfood family.

I thank Kingston Wharves, Grantley Stephenson and the whole company.

I thank Richard Bair and Mr Solomon from Main Event and the entire company.

I thank Phoenix printery, especially Kevin Demercado and his family.

I thank Lori-Ann Lyn from Caribbean Broilers for her friendship.

I thank Tastee Patties and Vincent Chang and family for their years of kindness.

I thank all the media for their great support of our poor.

I also thank Kingston Hireage for their generosity.

I must not forget JUTC and the successive ministers of education over 20 years who have helped us to impact students in creating a musical drama and spiritual vision in the arts.

Finances have also come from many people. I can’t enumerate all of them but I can simply say thank you, thank you, thank you.

Jamaica is an extraordinary giving community with an extraordinary spirit of abandonment in charity and love. Your reward will be great in heaven as you create a vision of God’s love for the poor and a society of justice and mercy. You have also helped Missionaries Of the Poor (MOP) to build a vision of God’s kingdom here on Earth through the arts with no reward for yourselves but to know that you have loved the least of our brothers and sisters. Thus, you have made a little heaven here on Earth through your kindness and love. God has given you much and you have given back to God, and I give thanks to you in the name of the Lord.

Please note that you will experience a wonderful version of
Jesus 2025, a jubilee gift that Father Ho Lung and Friends offer to you at the National Arena on September 24-28 and October 2-5

The ticket outlets are available at the following locations:

Fontana, Waterloo Square at 12 West King’s House Road, Waterloo Road.

Fontana, Barbican at 34 East King’s House Road, Barbican Square.

Fontana, Portmore (Sovereign Village) at 7 Braeton Parkway Square, Municipal Boulevard, Portmore.

Liguanea Drug & Garden Centre/General Foods Supermarket at 134 Old Hope Road.

Music Mart at 8 South Ave (Kingston 10).

MegaMart Waterloo at 29 Waterloo Road (Kingston 10).

MegaMart Portmore at Lot A-E, Portmore.

Lee’s Food Fair Pharmacy at 86 Red Hills Road.

Royale Computers & Accessories at Shop 2 Tropical Plaza, Constant Spring Road.

Kingston Book Shop at 74 King Street.

Online at
touchstonelink.com

Call us at 876-774-7350 / 876-809-5877.

— Father Richard Ho Lung is founder of Missionaries of the Poor.

A rehearsal scene from Jesus 2025, the new musical being staged by Father Ho Lung and Friends at the National Arena on September 24-28 and October 2-5, 2025.