HONG KONG (SE): Although becoming fewer in number, the presence of religious from various congregations and secular institutes of consecrated life are a precious part of the life of the Church, John Cardinal Tong Hon told a Mass celebrated at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to mark the end of the Year of Consecrated Life on February 2.

HONG KONG (SE): The end of the Year of Consecrated Life was celebrated in music, dance and drama, as well as some hilarity at the Caritas Community Hall in Kowloon on the evening of January 31, as some 650 religious and people living the consecrated life gathered to be entertained by the brave souls among them who dared to walk into the spotlights on stage.