Fr. Patrick Flynn, C.Ss.R. died on January 14, 2025, in Durban, South Africa. He was born in Durban on February 25, 1941. He professed his temporary vows on February 16, 1964 and made his final profession on February 16, 1967. He was ordained in Durban on July 11, 1969 after completing his studies at Hawkstone Hall, Shrewsbury, England. From 1969 to 1978 Fr. Flynn served as a parish priest in the Vice Province of Pretoria, South Africa. In 1978, with the permission of his vice-provincial, he petitioned the provincial of the Baltimore Province to exercise his ministry in the United States. His request was approved, and he was assigned to St. Clement’s Parish in Saratoga Springs, NY as the associate pastor. He continued in that ministry until 1987 when he returned to South Africa. Fr. Flynn found it difficult to accomplish his ministry during the volatile atmosphere of South Africa at that time and so requested a permanent transfer to the Baltimore Province. The Provincial Council of London and the Provincial Council of Baltimore approved his request. He completed a three-month course on pastoral studies before returning to the United States. Fr. Flynn’s first assignment on his return to the U.S. in 1988 was to St. Anthony Parish in Lancaster, PA. In 1989 he was transferred to St. Peter’s in Philadelphia as a full-time parish missionary. He spent a short time in Pittsburgh, PA at St. Philomena’s parish before being sent to St. Mary’s Parish, Annapolis, MD in 1993. Fr. Flynn had short stints again in Lancaster and Our Lady of Fatima before returning to Annapolis in September of 2000 where he ministered until he returned to South Africa in 2017 because of health issues and to be close to family. Fr. Denis Sweeney recalled what a faithful hospital chaplain Fr. Flynn was and how he engaged the laity of the parish in the corporal work of mercy of visiting the sick. Because of his kindness to patients and their families, he was often asked to preside at Masses of Christian Burial for those to whom he had ministered. As he so often prayed for eternal rest for others, may he now experience peace in his eternal home.