我出生在多倫多，當我兩個月大時我的父母把我帶回了香港。我就在香港長大，直到我十七歲搬回到多倫多繼續我的學業。雖然我在一所新教中學唸至第十一 年級，可是我從沒有在信仰中成長。這些年來，我的祖父母和親戚一直都是去位於萬錦市的多倫多中華殉道聖人天主教堂 Chinese Martyrs Catholic Church。而我則偶爾在重要的節日期間和他們一起去。奇怪的是，我沒受我祖母的影響，當時她是個非常虔誠的天主教徒。我小時候沒有受洗，因為我沒有宗教信仰的父親，希望我長大後，自行決定。天主的計劃真是難以想像和使人驚嘆，因為我確實在 三十一歲時受洗。
在 2008 年我的美國阿姨和媽媽在加拿大的團聚中邀請我去教堂。於是，我當時就去了租住的房子附近的一個基督教教堂，結識了更多的朋友。我在那里呆了 9 個月，牧師邀請我受洗。但是，我另一個去多倫多天主教中華殉道聖人堂的阿姨邀請我去她的天主教堂。 2009 年 5月，我開始和祖父母一起去，並最終在 2009 年 9月報名參加了 慕道課程。我非常享受其中的每一刻，不想錯過任何一節課。就在我受洗前幾週，我上網研究了我選擇的受洗名字“克萊門特”(Clement)。令我難以想像的驚喜是，我發現聖克萊門特的節日恰逢是我的生日。我立即問我媽媽，但她當時並沒有通過查看教堂的日曆來選擇我的名字。從那天起，我感受到了主在這個宇宙中真實和真正的存在。結果，我最喜歡的聖經經文如下。
“諸島嶼，請聽我！遠方的人民，請靜聽！上主由母腹中就召叫了我，
我可以真實地證明這一點，因為上主親自給我“克萊門特”這名字。
經過 18 個月的慕道課程，我最終於 在 2011 年 4月23日在多倫多天主教中華殉道聖人堂美麗的復活節守夜彌撒中接受了洗禮和堅振聖事。在我的一生中，尤其是在我受洗之後，我一直想知道生活的意義是什麼，以及除了在我的餘生中每天朝九晚五的工作之外，是否還有更偉大的人生目標。
2013 年 11月，一位教友邀請我當義工，帶領青少年參加為期 1 週的美國聖母軍基督軍團測試你的 “聖神呼召靜修會” 。那是我第一次和神學院的學生一起住在神學院，並遵循他們的日常生活。這是一次大開眼界的經歷。完了靜修會後，我想出了一個信仰秩序，其他神父也建議我查詢教區牧職生活，以便能進行比較得以能繼續我對牧民職務的分辨能力。
I was born in Toronto and my parents brought me to Hong Kong when l was 2 months old. I grew up there until I was 17 when I moved to Toronto to continue my schoolings. | had never grown up with faith although I went to a Protestant high school until Grade 11. My grandparents and relatives have always gone to the Chinese Martyrs Catholic Church (CMCC) in Markham for all these years but I only went with them occasionally during the important feast days. Strangely enough, I was not influenced by my grandma who was a devoted Catholic at that time to be converted. I was not baptized as a baby because my dad who has no religion wanted to let me decide on my own when I grew up. God’s plan is really unimaginable and amazing as I was indeed baptized when I was 31 years old.
It was in 2008 when my aunt from U.S and mom’s reunion in Canada who invited me to go to a church. Therefore, I went to a Protestant Church near my rented home at that time so to meet more friends. I went there for 9 months where the pastor invited me to be baptized. However, my other aunt from Toronto who has been going to CMCC invited me to go to the Catholic Church that she goes. I then started going to CMCC with my grandparents in May 2009 and eventually registered for the CIA class in September of 2009. I enjoyed every moment of it so much that I didn’t want to miss a single class. Just a couple of weeks before my baptism, I went online and researched my chosen baptised name “Clement”. To my unimaginable surprise, I found out St Clement’s feast day falls on my birthday. Immediately l asked my mom but she didn’t pick my name at that time by looking at the church’s calendar. Ever since that day, I feel the true and real presence of the Lord in this universe. As a result, my favorite bible verse is as follows.
“Hear me, coastlands, listen, distant peoples. Before birth the LORD called me, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name”. (Isaiah 49:1)
I can truly testify to it since God was the one who gave me this name “Clement”.
After 18 months of RCIA, I was eventually baptized and confirmed on April 23rd, 2011 at the beautiful Easter Vigil Mass at CMCC. At times throughout my life and especially after my baptism, I’ve always wondered what the meaning of life is and if there is a greater purpose of life for me other than working from a 9-5 daily job for the rest of my life.
In November of 2013, a parishioner invited me to be a chaperone to help bring youths for 1 week to the Legionaries of Christ Test Your Call Retreat” in Cheshire, USA. I always had the curiosity about seminary lite and therefore I accepted the invitation to help. That was my first-time experience of living in a seminary with seminarians and following their daily routines. It was an eye-opening experience. After the retreat, I figured out a religious order but other priests have also recommended me to check out the diocesan priesthood in order to make comparisons to continue my discernment.