ULAANBAATAR: 1st October 2007 -- Fr Paul Trung SDB, a Vietnamese
missionary in Mongolia, was ordained to the priesthood on 15th
September 2007, by Bishop Padilla Wenceslao CICM in Sts Peter and Paul
Cathedral Church in Ulaanbaatar. It was a significant moment for
the very young Catholic Church and even younger Salesian presence in
Mongolia - a first ordination experience. It was also a moment
that brought all Catholics in the country together in a special
way. Fr Paul celebrated his first Mass on 16th September in the
same Cathedral, and on 17th went north to Darkhan where he has been
stationed, to celebrate a first Mass there amongst the fledgling
Catholic community that owes its existence to the Salesian presence.
A number of Fr Paul's family were able to come from
Vietnam for the ordination and subsequent celebrations. His
immediate family was represented by his elder sister and an aunt.
His mother died in January and his father is elderly, so Fr Paul left
on 20th September for Vietnam to visit his father and celebrate Mass
for him there. The provincial economer of Vietnam Province
represented the province at the ordination.
20 children and 20 adult parishioners from Darkhan
Parish came to Ulaanbaatar for the ordination. The children made
up the choir for the ordination Mass, which was conducted by a Salesian
Sister, Sr Teresa Choi FMA. During communion a Vietnamese Brother
sang a special Vietnamese hymn while after communion the Darkhan
children's choir sang a hymn they had prepared especially for the
occasion.
Fr Paul returns to Mongolia this week after his
visit home to Vietnam. He returns to his role as Bursar of the
Darkhan community and his work at the Don Bosco Education Centre and
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