The plan was simple: come home, visit her ailing mother, and speak before graduating students of her alma mater. Instead, the homecoming of Filipino Catholic Dr. Juliana A. Delos Reyes became something far more profound, a farewell, a tribute, and a testament to a life shaped by loss, resilience, and unwavering faith.
“My Franciscan Superior asked me, ‘Are you willing to go to Jakarta?’ I immediately replied, ‘With great pleasure,’” recalls the priest, now one of Indonesia’s most respected biblical scholars.
From September 29 to October 1, 2025, generations of cardinals, archbishops, priests, bishops, religious, and seminarians from across Asia returned to the place where their journeys began, College General, Penang.
