Feb 29

This was retyped from the original scanned version posted on one SJI Alumni mailing list.

 
Dear Friends,

Saying goodbye to you with whom I have been living for more than fifty years here in Bacolod is indeed very hard. As I Prepare to leave for my home town I feel the pain in my heart, as all humans do.

Then why should I leave? As you know my character, I am always on the go, I never am idle or stagnant. When I was the Principal seldom do I sit in the office. After having done the important communications and correspondence, I would go around the classrooms and watch the activities of the students especially at recess time.

 Now, I cannot walk without a wheelchair. Day in and day out in my room I feel like a caged dragon who seldom see the blue sky. Like a prisoner in the prison, all the time I think of all the ways to change the environment, to make things better. but most of all to escape from theis restricting prison. Recently, I decided to go to my home town. As people say “Falling leaves return to the roots”. There in my hometown I may not be able to do much, however, I may help the parish priest to hear confessions and to give homily.

To leave the Queen of Peace Church and St. John’s Institute is piercing my heart. For more than fifty years, I have helped to nurture them and watch them grow. Now, I have to leave them. how will I not be able to feel the pain in my heart?

My dear friends, in conclusion, I have contributed a share in the glory of Queen of Peace Church and the achievements of St. John’s Institute. It is thorugh the grace of God and a gift from all of you.

I earnestly pray and ask the Lord to continue to bless the administration of the two institutions. Fr. Noly, Fr. Gary, Fr. Juerl. With your continued cooperation my dear friends, everything in the campus will continue to progress and soon to be recognized as a premier school of excellence ……. after the Golden Jubilee.

Goodby, my friends, take care

Yours in Christ,

 

Msgr. John Su