Father Matthias Lu, a Catholic priest, scholar, teacher, and translator, and an Affiliated Member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, died on Wednesday, June 25, 2008, in Napa, California, at the age of 89. Father Lu had been resident in the Holy Family Community of retired Christian Brothers at Mont La Salle in Napa since 2005.
Matthias Lu was born on June 2, 1919, in a village fifteen miles south of Peking (now Beijing) into the large family of Paul and Rose Lu. His mother taught catechism lessons to the children of the village; his father was a schoolteacher in the winter, a farmer in spring and summer, a part-time carpenter and architect, and a political leader, who had to flee during the Communist takeover of China in 1949.
Young Matthias entered the junior seminary in Paoting in 1929 and went on to Saint Vincent's major seminary in Peking in 1937. In 1938 the Society for the Propagation of the Faith awarded four scholarships to the Catholic Church in China for higher studies at the Vatican. Matthias received one of these prestigious scholarships and went to Rome, where he studied from 1938 to 1946. He was ordained a priest in December 1942, and received his licentiate in theology in 1944 and his doctorate in philosophy in 1946, both from the Pontifical Urbanian University.
In 1946 he returned to China to be professor of philosophy and theology at the Catholic Fujen University of Peking.
For the furtherance of his scholarly projects and to improve his English, he was sent to America in 1948 to visit various philosophy departments, and traveled from San Francisco to eastern Canada, where he did postdoctoral work in Toronto and Nova Scotia, as well as doing parish ministry and spiritual direction.
In 1963 Father Lu assumed the dual duties of assistant professor in Philosophy and chaplain to the Student Brothers at Saint Mary's College of California, the Christian Brothers' institution in Moraga. He served as chaplain to other Brothers' communities as well. In the Bay Area he also served as chaplain for Chinese students at various collegiate institutions and as Vicar to Chinese and East Asian Catholics for the Diocese of Oakland, often helping with liturgies in Asian languages at several different parishes in the East Bay.
Matthias Lu was affiliated with many professional and scholarly associations, and his many honors included papal medals and honorary doctorates. Father Lu became a citizen of the United States in 1969. His complete curriculum vitae can be found at www.everyonesaquinas.org, the Web site of the International Saint Thomas Aquinas Center.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 5, 2008, in the Mont La Salle Chapel, 4401 Redwood Road, Napa, California. Visitation will start at 9:00 a.m. in the Chapel Rotunda, to be followed by the funeral liturgy at 10:00 a.m. and burial in the Mont La Salle cemetery. Notes and remembrances may be sent to Archives, District of San Francisco, De La Salle Institute, 4401 Redwood Road, Napa, CA 94558.
Matthias Lu was born on June 2, 1919, in a village fifteen miles south of Peking (now Beijing) into the large family of Paul and Rose Lu. His mother taught catechism lessons to the children of the village; his father was a schoolteacher in the winter, a farmer in spring and summer, a part-time carpenter and architect, and a political leader, who had to flee during the Communist takeover of China in 1949.
Young Matthias entered the junior seminary in Paoting in 1929 and went on to Saint Vincent's major seminary in Peking in 1937. In 1938 the Society for the Propagation of the Faith awarded four scholarships to the Catholic Church in China for higher studies at the Vatican. Matthias received one of these prestigious scholarships and went to Rome, where he studied from 1938 to 1946. He was ordained a priest in December 1942, and received his licentiate in theology in 1944 and his doctorate in philosophy in 1946, both from the Pontifical Urbanian University.
In 1946 he returned to China to be professor of philosophy and theology at the Catholic Fujen University of Peking.
For the furtherance of his scholarly projects and to improve his English, he was sent to America in 1948 to visit various philosophy departments, and traveled from San Francisco to eastern Canada, where he did postdoctoral work in Toronto and Nova Scotia, as well as doing parish ministry and spiritual direction.
In 1963 Father Lu assumed the dual duties of assistant professor in Philosophy and chaplain to the Student Brothers at Saint Mary's College of California, the Christian Brothers' institution in Moraga. He served as chaplain to other Brothers' communities as well. In the Bay Area he also served as chaplain for Chinese students at various collegiate institutions and as Vicar to Chinese and East Asian Catholics for the Diocese of Oakland, often helping with liturgies in Asian languages at several different parishes in the East Bay.
Matthias Lu was affiliated with many professional and scholarly associations, and his many honors included papal medals and honorary doctorates. Father Lu became a citizen of the United States in 1969. His complete curriculum vitae can be found at www.everyonesaquinas.org, the Web site of the International Saint Thomas Aquinas Center.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 5, 2008, in the Mont La Salle Chapel, 4401 Redwood Road, Napa, California. Visitation will start at 9:00 a.m. in the Chapel Rotunda, to be followed by the funeral liturgy at 10:00 a.m. and burial in the Mont La Salle cemetery. Notes and remembrances may be sent to Archives, District of San Francisco, De La Salle Institute, 4401 Redwood Road, Napa, CA 94558.
Father Matthias Lu, a Catholic priest, scholar, teacher, and translator, and an Affiliated Member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, died on Wednesday, June 25, 2008, in Napa, California, at the age of 89. Father Lu had been resident in the Holy Family Community of retired Christian Brothers at Mont La Salle in Napa since 2005.
Matthias Lu was born on June 2, 1919, in a village fifteen miles south of Peking (now Beijing) into the large family of Paul and Rose Lu. His mother taught catechism lessons to the children of the village; his father was a schoolteacher in the winter, a farmer in spring and summer, a part-time carpenter and architect, and a political leader, who had to flee during the Communist takeover of China in 1949.
Young Matthias entered the junior seminary in Paoting in 1929 and went on to Saint Vincent's major seminary in Peking in 1937. In 1938 the Society for the Propagation of the Faith awarded four scholarships to the Catholic Church in China for higher studies at the Vatican. Matthias received one of these prestigious scholarships and went to Rome, where he studied from 1938 to 1946. He was ordained a priest in December 1942, and received his licentiate in theology in 1944 and his doctorate in philosophy in 1946, both from the Pontifical Urbanian University.
In 1946 he returned to China to be professor of philosophy and theology at the Catholic Fujen University of Peking.
For the furtherance of his scholarly projects and to improve his English, he was sent to America in 1948 to visit various philosophy departments, and traveled from San Francisco to eastern Canada, where he did postdoctoral work in Toronto and Nova Scotia, as well as doing parish ministry and spiritual direction.
In 1963 Father Lu assumed the dual duties of assistant professor in Philosophy and chaplain to the Student Brothers at Saint Mary's College of California, the Christian Brothers' institution in Moraga. He served as chaplain to other Brothers' communities as well. In the Bay Area he also served as chaplain for Chinese students at various collegiate institutions and as Vicar to Chinese and East Asian Catholics for the Diocese of Oakland, often helping with liturgies in Asian languages at several different parishes in the East Bay.
Matthias Lu was affiliated with many professional and scholarly associations, and his many honors included papal medals and honorary doctorates. Father Lu became a citizen of the United States in 1969. His complete curriculum vitae can be found at www.everyonesaquinas.org, the Web site of the International Saint Thomas Aquinas Center.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 5, 2008, in the Mont La Salle Chapel, 4401 Redwood Road, Napa, California. Visitation will start at 9:00 a.m. in the Chapel Rotunda, to be followed by the funeral liturgy at 10:00 a.m. and burial in the Mont La Salle cemetery. Notes and remembrances may be sent to Archives, District of San Francisco, De La Salle Institute, 4401 Redwood Road, Napa, CA 94558.
Matthias Lu was born on June 2, 1919, in a village fifteen miles south of Peking (now Beijing) into the large family of Paul and Rose Lu. His mother taught catechism lessons to the children of the village; his father was a schoolteacher in the winter, a farmer in spring and summer, a part-time carpenter and architect, and a political leader, who had to flee during the Communist takeover of China in 1949.
Young Matthias entered the junior seminary in Paoting in 1929 and went on to Saint Vincent's major seminary in Peking in 1937. In 1938 the Society for the Propagation of the Faith awarded four scholarships to the Catholic Church in China for higher studies at the Vatican. Matthias received one of these prestigious scholarships and went to Rome, where he studied from 1938 to 1946. He was ordained a priest in December 1942, and received his licentiate in theology in 1944 and his doctorate in philosophy in 1946, both from the Pontifical Urbanian University.
In 1946 he returned to China to be professor of philosophy and theology at the Catholic Fujen University of Peking.
For the furtherance of his scholarly projects and to improve his English, he was sent to America in 1948 to visit various philosophy departments, and traveled from San Francisco to eastern Canada, where he did postdoctoral work in Toronto and Nova Scotia, as well as doing parish ministry and spiritual direction.
In 1963 Father Lu assumed the dual duties of assistant professor in Philosophy and chaplain to the Student Brothers at Saint Mary's College of California, the Christian Brothers' institution in Moraga. He served as chaplain to other Brothers' communities as well. In the Bay Area he also served as chaplain for Chinese students at various collegiate institutions and as Vicar to Chinese and East Asian Catholics for the Diocese of Oakland, often helping with liturgies in Asian languages at several different parishes in the East Bay.
Matthias Lu was affiliated with many professional and scholarly associations, and his many honors included papal medals and honorary doctorates. Father Lu became a citizen of the United States in 1969. His complete curriculum vitae can be found at www.everyonesaquinas.org, the Web site of the International Saint Thomas Aquinas Center.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 5, 2008, in the Mont La Salle Chapel, 4401 Redwood Road, Napa, California. Visitation will start at 9:00 a.m. in the Chapel Rotunda, to be followed by the funeral liturgy at 10:00 a.m. and burial in the Mont La Salle cemetery. Notes and remembrances may be sent to Archives, District of San Francisco, De La Salle Institute, 4401 Redwood Road, Napa, CA 94558.
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