Jesuits
Date: October 11, 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 10 a.m.
Place: St. Ignatius Chapel at Wah Yan College, Kowloon
56 Waterloo Road, Yaumatei, Kowloon
Presider: Most Rev. Bishop Michael Yeung
There will be no burial after the Funeral Mass. Fr. Naylor has donated his remain to HKU for medical studies. HKU will receive his remain on the next day.
Since Fr. Naylor had always been a promoter of environmental conservation, please refrain from sending flower arrangements to the funeral.
In lieu of flowers, please feel free to make your donation to “Fr. Kelly Educational Fund Limited”. The proceeds will benefit education at WYK. Please provide a proper name and return address if a receipt is required for tax purpose (if given with a cheque).
As parking is very limited on that day, people who are planning to join the funeral mass are expected by the School to use public transport.
In memory of a great teacher
Teachers have students, good teachers have learners, and teaching gods have disciples. That was the summary of my teaching philosophy I recently presented at the Harvard Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.
I was one of the few lucky ones who had a teaching god as my form master. Almost 45 years after being taught by the late Father Harold Naylor, S.J., I find what I recently learned at Harvard was already practised by Fr. Naylor almost half a century ago. He was not just a high school teacher, he was a reflective practitioner. He was a pioneer on modern teaching concepts, he encouraged intrinsic motivation, he created an inclusive teaching environment and built student rapport, he engaged students in active learning and connected knowledge with real life, he used formative feedback, the list goes on.
For example, when teaching biblical studies, we were taken to the Buddhist Temples and Muslim Mosque. When teaching biology, on the first day of class, we were told to draw on a piece of blank paper a naked man and a naked woman. I remembered one of our more artistic students drew an almost naked man with a fig leaf covering the genital part. Fr. Naylor just tore up the sheet and asked him to draw again, a NAKED man. He made almost every one of us a member of the Conservancy Association. He made us to debate and disagreed with our peers.
If there is a Church of Teaching, the best teachers can almost be canonized as saints and those who preach their teachings are disciples. The Catholic church canonized some great teachers. As a former student of Wah Yan Kowloon, one of the two Jesuit schools in Hong Kong, I was told the order’s founder St. Ignatius of Loyola was a really good teacher. The rival de La Salle schools claimed their founder Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle was the patron saint of all teachers. Saint Thomas Aquinas was touted as the patron of ALL universities and students.
I last saw the father a few years ago when I visited Hong Kong. Even though he was suffering from Parkinson’s Disease, he insisted on saying mass in Cantonese at Wah Yan’s St. Ignatius Chapel. That day, I had the last communion delivered by the late father.
Fr. Naylor will be missed, but his teaching spirit is eternal.
https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/realtime/article/20181004/58757556
Dear Friends and Alumni of WYK,
In Christian hope, I am informing you that our beloved Fr. Harold Naylor, S.J. has returned to our Lord for his eternal reward at 4:17 pm today (4/10).
Fr. Naylor was a Jesuit educator par excellence and one of the most endearing figures of Wah Yan College, Kowloon. He will also be remembered for his commitment in ecological education and Christian ecumenism.
Details on his funeral arrangement will be announced when available.
May Fr. Naylor intercede for us in his heavenly home!
(From Fr. Stephen Chow S.J.)
13 August 2018 "We finished a mini bottle of white wine"
14 August 2018 ""This morning. The mass becomes bigger and bigger!"
"兩位是方津生和湯偉民医生，他們兩位是father守護天使"
"Eva, wife of Dr. Vincent Tse, who is the head nurse at Elizabeth Hospital, visits every evening after work taking care of father."
"He still has good appetite, so Rose (Mrs Yuen) makes some fish dishes for him if she find something nice in market."
"He is teaching us how to face sickness and death. You learn courage, let go, trust, faith."
[8/1]:Rose and I have been with him every evening from 7:30pm till he sleeps by 8pm.
He is stable and is always in good spirit! He teaches us how to face sickness and death dignified and cheerful!
He is most alert around 11am, but usually long queue outside.