Suffering from pancreatic cancer, the parish priest of Saint-Dominique, Father Cyril Gordien, died on Tuesday March 14 at the age of 48. Former religious adviser of the national team of Guides and Scouts of Europe, he will have marked many faithful and priests.
Chains of prayer multiplied around him. They will not have been right about his cancer. On the evening of March 14, after several months of struggle, Father Cyril Gordien, parish priest of Saint-Dominique in Paris died at the age of 48, surrounded by his family.
Many faithful and priests are already paying homage on social networks to this priest who marked the spirits by his faith, his humility and his qualities as a preacher. Ordained in 2005 for the diocese of Paris, he was religious advisor to the national team of Guides and Scouts of Europe from 2012 to 2018. He was still the chaplain of the Notre-Dame de France group of Unitary Scouts of France (SUF ).
“The Joy of Heaven on His Face”
The SUF group pays tribute to him in a press release, welcoming his “Strong Hope”his “fire homilies, [sa] evangelical sweetness [sa] holy audacity, [sa] strength [et son] watch out for the little ones. The scouts announce that a prayer vigil will soon be organized in addition to his funeral mass.
“We are losing a very holy priest, a great man who will have marked all those who approached him”, writes on Facebook Father Guy Emmanuel Cariot, rector of the Argenteuil basilica.
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« Good memories of having welcomed you in my parish for a mass with guides in camps. Rest in peace in the house of Him whose servant you were.” writes Father Louis de Villoutreys, a priest of the diocese of Versailles. “Let us pray for Abbé Gordien, who is in the process of rendering his beautiful soul to God”, had written a few hours earlier on Twitter the abbot Martial Merlin, vicar in La Valette-du-Var.
Expressing their great sadness, the faithful salute his ” simplicity “his “sermons to turn the young back”, there “joy of Heaven that he wore on his face”. Some ask him to pray for them from above. Maybe it’s already running…
Camille Lecuit
