After six months away, Bishop Joseph and Fr. Peter return to Phat Diem. They have traveled across America visiting Vietnamese parishes in cities like San Jose, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. Everyone who works for the diocese got to greet them.
Bishop Joseph always looks dapper and never seems to break a sweat. Here he is holding his suit jacket. Imagine that, a suit jacket in 95 degree weather. Fr.Hien if third from the right, enjoying talking with the sisters. To the left of him, in the white shirt, is Fr. Phuc, rector of the cathedral.
The sisters who work in the kitchen and the office really run the place. While in America, the bishop visited the 10 sisters from Viet Nam who are now in St. Louis ministering to the Vietnamese community there. These are all members of the Sisters of the Lovers of the Holy Cross.
Here is Nam Vu working his keyboard. Now entering 8th grade, he is quite the conversationalist. It's hard to believe that I have kn...