HCM/Saigon June 16, 2014 -- On
Thursday 5 June 2014, Diaconate ordinations were held at the
Xuan Hiep church at 6:30 in the morning. The event was
presided over by Bishop Peter Nguyen Van Kham, Auxiliary
Bishop Saigon Archdiocese, who came there 15 minutes in
advance and was warmly welcomed by Fr Joseph Tran Hoa Hung,
the Provincial, and by the Rector of Rinaldi Formation House,
Fr. JB Nguyen Van Them.
Seven clerics from Rinaldi Formation House, who have completed
their third year of theology were ordained deacons. In the
past, because priestly ordination must have permission
from the government, diacoante ordinations were held only one
or two days beforehand. Everything has changed now, so our
clerics have one year of exercising the diaconate ministry
before their priestly ordination at the end of the 4th year of
theology.
Up until now the annual priestly ordinations are held at the
end of August. Following this they are assigned to their new
communities.
Every year, first professions and perpetual professiona are
held in the middle of August.
Readers could no worse than to take a look at the SDB Viet website which
is no slouch in the web world today - full of news,
well-designed, and very obviously geared to helping this
numerically large province to keep up with Salesian news
(pretty much all key news items from ANS are translated into
Vietnamese). Of course, the site opens in Vietnamese, but
there is little difficulty in choosing to translate it into
English (Chrome users can do that easily and it only takes one
or two steps for other browsers to do similarly).
