Fr Godfrey Kyeyune to be buried on Thursday

The late Fr Godfrey Kyeyune was the national director of the devotion of St Jude Thaddeus.

CELEBRATING LIFE

Rev Fr Godfrey Kyeyune, the former parish priest of Our Lady and St Jude Thaddeus Catholic Shrine, Naggulu, who died from cancer on December 13, will be laid to rest at the shrine in Naggulu on Thursday, December 17.

According to a communication from the Chancellor of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kampala, Fr Dr Pius Male, the send-off function will be preceded by a requiem mass that will start at 12:00pm.

The requiem mass will be led by the Metropolitan Archbishop, Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga.

The body of the deceased will nonetheless be delivered to the shrine (at Naggulu) on Wednesday (December 16) at 12:00pm.

Meanwhile, requiem masses are being celebrated at the shrine after every two hours.

The late Fr Godfrey Kyeyune was the national director of the devotion of St Jude Thaddeus. During the past decades, he taught at Nyenga Seminary.

He also served as the Vocations Director of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kampala (and also curate of Nabbingo Catholic parish).

Kyeyune also served as parish-priest of Ggaba and lecturer at St Mbaaga's Major Seminary Ggaba.

The late Fr. Godfrey Kyeyune launching 'Your Brick in the Foundation' fundraising campaign for the construction of the new shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus at Naguru, last year.

He later served for long as the parish-priest of Gayaaza before his transfer to Naggulu.

Tributes

Fr Kyeyune's passing on has caused an overflow of county-wide tributes.

Kyeyune's admirers generally applaud him for his flowery sacerdotal ministry, which was greatly boosted by his warm social and moral disposition as one Benjamin Opio acknowledged.

"He was a very lovely priest in whom we saw the loving-kindness of our God. He had a very deep sense of human brotherhood and solidarity. He never paid attention to trivial issues such as tribe and ethnicity. He lived the gospel message that he preached."

The artistic impression of the proposed national shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus, whose fundraising drive was launched by the late Fr Kyeyune last year

Nancy Nalubega praised Kyeyune for his zealous commitment to the devotion of St Jude Thaddeus.

"Fr Kyeyune worked hard to popularize and glorify the devotion of St Jude Thaddeus. In fact, last year, he launched a strategic fundraising campaign for the construction of the new national shrine of St Jude. May God grant our dear priest his heavenly crown."