MASS OF THANKSGIVING OF THE NEWLY ORDAINED FR. TRẦN QUÂN, PRESIDENT OF MLV-2011
This morning (15 March 2022), at the Vinh Long filial church of Trại Lê Parish, the newly ordained Father Phêrô Trần Quân offered a Mass of thanksgiving to God and prayed for his superiors, his ancestors, and his benefactors, relatives and the community.
The newly ordained Father Phêrô Trần Quân was ordained by Bishop Vincent Nguyễn Mạnh Hiếu, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Toronto, Canada. He received the laying on of hands and was ordained to the priesthood on 15 February 2020. From that day he formally entered the ministerial priesthood of Christ. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Mass of thanksgiving was postponed, and today he has returned to his homeland in a spirit of thanksgiving for the many graces God has been pleased to grant him.
Concelebrating the Mass with the newly ordained priest were Bishop Phaolô Maria Cao Đình Thuyên and Bishop Phêrô Nguyễn Văn Viên, the Vicar General of the Diocese of Vinh, the deans, priests from within and beyond the Diocese, men and women religious, guests from the various parishes and filial churches, and the relatives of the newly ordained priest.
Before the end of the Mass, the Parish Pastoral Council offered its congratulations on behalf of the community of Trại Lê Parish. Immediately afterwards, Father Phêrô gave his thanks and offered his gratitude to God, to Mother Church and to his superiors, especially to the parish priest, Father Antôn, who had arranged and cared for every detail of the day of thanksgiving; he thanked the men and women religious, the guests, the benefactors and relatives and the community who took part; and with deep emotion the new priest expressed his gratitude to his father for all the sacrifices and all the prayers that had made this day of great happiness possible for him.
The priestly vocation is truly lofty, yet full of sacrifice and hardship, while the priest remains a man with the weakness and limitations of the human condition. A priest is a "human being," and so he too carries a body that is heavy, frail and prone to stumbling like everyone else, even though God has chosen him in love. The priesthood is thus exalted and endowed with authority, yet it is given to weak and fragile people full of limitations. For this reason the community needs to pray much for priests, and especially for the new priest, Father Phêrô, that he may always follow Christ faithfully and become a shepherd after God's own heart, such as the Church and the community long for.
Long Nguyễn
Technology Team
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