Fr. François Ponchaud died two weeks ago in France. He first came to Cambodia in 1965 and was the major influence in rebuilding the Catholic Church in the kingdom after the Khmer Rouge.
Today there was a funeral service for Fr. Ponchaud at St. Joseph Church. At the beginning, before the bishop and priests processed in, there was a ten-minute video about his life and work in Cambodia. I was pleased to see the Khmer church using the video system that our English Catholic Community installed. They have not taken advantage of it previously. Each Sunday there are masses at St. Joseph in Khmer at 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM with an English mass at 10:30 AM.
