Condolences

2008/8/5 Vuthy TUOT <tuot.chhorkvuthy@skynet.be>
Mes amis,
Les nouvelles ne sont pas bonnes, notre cher Père Vincent est décédé hier soir à 21heures 45.
Les funérailles auront lieu ce samedi le 9 à 11 heures.
Il restera à jamais dans notre cœur!

Nos amitiés

Phalek & Vuthy

P.S. Je vous envoie sa dernière photo qu'on a prise dans sa chambre.
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Dear friends,

We must bring you the bad news. Our dear father Vincent died yesterday night the 4th August at 21 hours 45 minutes local time. The funeral will take place this Saturday 9th at 11 o'clock.

Our regards

Phalek & Vuthy

P.S. I send you his last photo which we took it in his room


Chers amis,C'est avec une grande tristesse que j'ai appris cette nouvelle à l'instant même. Je rends hommage à cet homme exceptionnel qui, de toute sa vie consacrée aux plus démunis, aux plus faibles, et que tout le monde doit avoir une chance, en particulier nous les jeunes du Camps de réfugiées à la frontière Khmer-thaï des années 80, qui reconnaitront par eux même le bien fondé de notre Cher père Vincent.Merci énormément à Phalek et Vuthy pour une formidable liaison auprès de notre cher père et nous tous de ces derniers temps.Phalek, peux tu nous préciser le lieu de cérémonie des funérailles afin que nos amis en france ou ailleurs puissent y participer.Rendez vous le samedi 9 donc Saren


Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 12:46 PM
To All Surviving Family Members of Père Vincent and Fellow Classmates:

My profound sadness and heartfelt condolences to the passing of a man who gave
himself so unselfishly to bring hopes and inspirations to all of us who were
caught up in the crossfires of a civil conflict. His fond memories as a great
mentor and educator will be an indelible part of our daily lives for all the
time to come. Myself and everyone of us as his pupils pay the utmost respect for
all his sacrifices to provide the foundation that put us where we are.

Your humble pupil, Marin



Dear all,

Very sad to hear that our lovely father passed away from this ugly earth! on the other hands, it is good for him to leave this world and recover again in the peace full world as what his kindness result was.

I was one of the top ten poorest among the 68 intern students, I was a lot supported by him as same as to help me to have good adapted parents, Colombier. By this adapted parents my life became better and step into to day life. As the Truth, I used to visit him with some fruits and biscuit when he lived in Cambodia. Off hand, I used to call him for chatting if I could not manage my time. When he fallen in sick, Uth Siramaren and I have spent some times to take care of him in hospital and his resident. I am proud of what I have done to him.

I would like to take this opportunity to pray the GOD to bring him to the peaceful world since he has done a lot of good things for all of us as same as the other people.


Yours uprightness pupil,
Hok



Dear Father, As one of father's pupils who used to have hard-time living along Khmer-Thai from 1984-1992, that was the time i met father, and got support from father, in term of education and guiding. I am very sad that to hear that father had been very sick and passed away. Father had tried tirelessly teaching us and guide us in the way we should do to to develop ourselves, even though at lunch time that father was supposed to rest but father did not, instead father used this time to teach us English, science and general knowledge so that we can lean and practise speaking and listing, discussing. Out of education and guiding, father also helped us with looking for god parents to support us, sending and receiving mails, changing money (from US$ to Thai Bath)...etc which we were unable to do so by ourselves in that time. The pupils used to run to father whenever they saw father coming by expecting to receive something from father which they used to.........(mails, correspondence from outside, good news....etc.) and after we finished schooling, father helped us find job and guided us whatever father can. With help and support from father, we are now developed and prosperous, having better lives. I would like to pay my profound respects and gratitudes to father and pray for father, may god bless father and may father's soul and spirit stay in peace with god. I would like to convey deepest condolence to father's family for the loss of the great family member (father) who sacrificed for his whole life for peace and development for his beloved pupils, students and human being in the world. May god bless father and family. From Sorin Reach, father's Cambodian pupil now working in Dili, East Timor (Timor Leste).
Sorin Reach HP: + 670 733 4090 Tel: + 670 3 321 871 Fax: + 670 3 321 882 Skype: sreach67





Boney Yim <boneyyim@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Friends,
It was a very sad moment that a life of a man who impacted so many Cambodian lives has passed on. We pray that he will rest in peace and we shall meet him in heaven someday. We all are very greatful for what he has done for our country and for us in particular. Folks, I've just returned from a short trip to Cambodia. I heard news of Fr. Vincent's death from Houk, who got news from Sakun. Sakun, Saren, Phala and others have done a great job representing us at his funeral. Thank Sakun and Saren in particular for creating the blog in memory of Fr. Vincent and the time we all had shared with him. May God bless you all!


salut tout le monde,j'ai appris cette nuit et deja une heure du matin par cette mail que je n'ai jamais eu ocasion d ouvrir. LE PERE VINCENT EST DEJA PARTI??!! c'est trop vite. j'ai impression que c'est tout recent que on est à site 2 et apprend l anglais dans une classe en bombou avec le pere qui parlait et que je ne comprenais rien....je suis un peu choquer là...je prie pour lui, la paix au ciel......Lim...............Hi every one,i am so sad to receive this bad news, very late, and pray for our Father, peaceful in the paradise.Limthis is my mail box comptoirdasie99@yahoo.com



Bonjour Saren, bonjour Vuthy,

Merci pour tous ces messages de condoléances si chaleureux que vous m'avez transmis. Je les imprimerai et transmettrai au Père Charles et à sa sœur Thérèse. Ils font tous chauds au cœur, les uns plus que les autres, mais en tous les cas: nous avons perdu un grand homme. Ceci dit, franchement je ne savais pas qu'il était aussi apprécié et aimé par vous tous, et qu'il vous a tant aidé à retrouver le bonheur après de si grandes épreuves.

Voici également deux photos reçues de Kep Vilaiwan, grande amie du Père Vincent (autel lors d'une messe en souvenir du Père Vincent) à Bangkok. Vous y retrouverez son beau sourire.

Le blog de Sakun est super émouvant mais reflète si bien la vie de mon oncle bien-aimé.

Merci encore,

Colette



Hi all, I am so sad to hear this. May peace be rest with him and his family.

Regards,

Sithy




Dear friends,
I really appreciate all of your comments related to the memory of Father Vincent.
It's just been returning to yesterday's time….

Please put through your message to friends who are not included in the group.
So please express and share your condolences until Friday 8th before 03 pm (Paris time).
I will bring all of your messages (printed) to the ceremony on Saturday 9th (Belgium),
and hope to give them to Father Vincent's family.

Sakun, Phala, Sovann and I will joint the funeral ceremony in Belgium.

Your big Brother
Saren

Je suis très déçu de cette nouvelle.
Prions pour lui, le fondateur de notre vie.
Je suis loins, très loin pour lui rendre visite.
Il faut aller le voir pour ceux qui peuvent le faire quand il est vivant.

I’m really abset about this new.
We must pray for him. It’s him who give us our live.
For the one who can do, please visit him as our father when he is still alive.
Vily

Bonjour à tous,
Désolé pour cette mauvaise nouvelle.
Espérons que la gravité de sa santé ne soit pas trop aigue, en tout cas je préviendrai mes amis et pour a ceux qui voudraient bien passer le rentre visite.
De même pour moi, je vais voir comment pourrons nous organiser tout ca, vu les calendriers des vacances les uns et les autres de nos amis.
Encore merci.
Amicalement
Saren

Hi all,As promise to some of you, I put some pictures of Fr. Vincent's funeral on my newly created blog : http://cheayden.blogspot.comI try my best to make you feel as you were with him at the funeral.Hi Colette (Father Vincent's niece?),You can use the emails in the To-list of this email for any correspondences related to Fr. Vincent and family.Thank you for your warm reception.Please transmit my warmest condolences to Father Charles, her sister and family.Thanks,
Sakun
PS: If I forgot some friends in the distribution list, please feel free to transfer them this message.

Sakun and I will try to feed back the blog http://cheayden.blogspot.com/
In heading : "in memories of Father Vincent", so every body must feel free toshare and leave your comments, stories or things which have been lived through in the refugee camps, our your experiences leaving altogether, telling stories how being a goodness actions of Father Vincent who always tried…to give help...to us This is the manner of which we recognize our gratitude on a MAN who scarified his life for us and several people in the camp, I mean especially to our classmates called the boarder students (about 60 persons at the time). As a matter of fact, his family will learn more things which they will never have hearded previously in site 2 camps and elsewhere. Also we'll set up an other's column point of view in the same blog. We invite you all who would want to give opinions, general pint of view, actual topics related to our lives, famillies, associatedprojects, business, launching on various ideas, jobs or even political discussion etc. or just a friendly joke. We are proudly of your sharing comments and point of views. Let take it easy.
Thanks Saren PS: Some students from Cambodia and friends in France, in Cambodia and somewhere else are invited to joint this blog as well ( mails included )

2008/8/13, Sakun YIM :Thanks Saren. I added you as a possible author of the blog -- check your email. You can so from now on post articles/pictures on it. If you want also to write articles or put souvenirs on it, you have two choices:
- send the articles/souvenirs to me or Saren and we post them for you- you become an author of the blog. You can then post them by yourself. In this case please let me know.BTW, you can now add comments to any articles of the blog (I just found this morning that this function is disable by default). For those who have limited skills in writing in English, you can write your articles in French or whatever you want. We will find out away to let everybody understands your inputs. Remember that you don't need to have any particular skills to write. Don't be afraid to make grammatical errors. If you started to think about grammar etc. you will loose all means to continue your article. Write down words or sentences which come out first from your heart/head. Thanks in advance for your contribution!
- Thanks,Sakun
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- 2008/8/12, Sakun YIM :
- Hi all,
- As promise to some of you, I put some pictures of Fr. Vincent's funeral on my newly created blog http://cheayden.blogspot.comI try my best to make you feel as you were with him at the funeral. Hi Colette (Father Vincent's niece?), you can use the emails in the To-list of this email for any correspondences related to Fr. Vincent and family. Thank you for your warm reception.Please transmit my warmest condolences to Father Charles, her sister and family.
- Thanks,Sakun
- PS: If I forgot some friends in the distribution list, please feel free to transfer them this message.






Yin@free.fr wrote 20/08/2008
Je prie pour Le Père Vincent :
Matthieu 6, 9-13
Notre Père qui es dans les cieux,
que ton nom soit sanctifié
que ton règne arrive;
que ta volonté soit faite sur la terre comme au ciel.
Donne-nous aujourd'hui notre pain quotidien remets-nous nos dettes, comme nous-mêmes avons remis à nos débiteurs
et ne nous soumets pas à la tentation,
mais délivrez-nous du Mauvais.

Ami un jour ami pour toujours ?
Pour le meilleur et non pas pour le pire !!!!!