Book Review 1: Biography of Rev.Fr. Mercelline Jayakody, "Malpale Upan Pansale Piyatuma"

Until my camera comes alive once the battery is charged, to upload the Logos Hope pictures I thought of sharing few book reviews. Let me start with the Biography of Rev.Fr. Mercelline Jayakody, "Malpale Upan Pansale Piyatuma". The book is written in Sinhala by a Buddhist monk, Dr. Ittepana Dhammalankara Thero. I'm not sure any English translation is available of this book, if possible and if I've time in the future, will try to translate the whole book with the author's permission.

Rev.Fr. Mercelline Jayakody - I'm very happy as I met father Mercelline once, during my school days when I was about 10 years, but it was just a brief meeting limited to exchange greetings. Not as a born Buddhist, as a primary kid I didn't know how to continue the conversation or what to say next. The most important thing I noticed was the kindness in those eyes, in his face.

We see many nuns, monks, priests representing different religions, but we rarely see them in the correct way they need to look like because most of them own a face of a businessman or a woman than someone very religious and spiritual. I hope you'll agree with me.

The book is only about LKR.200/= but the content is involved with a lot more valuable research work and effort to capture father Mercelline's life story.

Rev.Fr. Mercelline Jayakody wrote not only many books, also many famous songs (you will find lyrics of few in the last few pages of the book), he was a beautiful mind, a gifted soul, a visionary and a good priest.

I have no idea, why he was never appreciated and acknowledged properly for his tremendous service?

The cover of the book and few of my favorite pages from the book: