Saturday, June 8, 2013
Breakfast at Phat Diem
It's usually the same five of us at our breakfast table, with the occasional guest or two.
Bishop Joseph and I. He speaks Italian, French, and English, and oddly enough Vietnamese. We joke around about words all the time.
Fr. Bo, my long lost twin brother. He is one year younger than I am so I can call him "em," which means "younger brother." He just laughs and rolls his eyes.
Bishop Joseph, some guy, Fr. Bo, and Fr. Peter Hien. Fr. Hien is the bishop's secretary and is rather like Radar from MASH. There is nothing he can't get or do from either Hanoi or Rome.
Second from the left is Fr. Vong, who took the other pictures. He got his doctorate at GTU and runs the catechetics programs for the diocese. He loves a good pun and plays a mean game of soccer.
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