{"id":13886,"date":"2019-03-09T15:16:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/vietnam-nuovo-convento-e-casa-di-formazione\/"},"modified":"2019-03-09T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:26:19","slug":"vietnam-nuovo-convento-e-casa-di-formazione","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/vietnam-nuovo-convento-e-casa-di-formazione\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam: New Formation House and Friary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At 5:30 p.m., on March 2, 2019, more than a hundred people, including priests, religious, families, benefactors and friars gathered at the Annunciation Friary in Cu Chi, Vietnam for the dedication and blessing of a new formation house.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Most Reverend Joseph NGUY\u1ec4N T\u1ea5n T\u01b0\u1edbc, Bishop of Ph\u00fa C\u01b0\u1eddng, Vietnam, presided over the liturgy. Those concelebrating included the Minister General, Friar Marco TASCA; the Minister Provincial of the St. Joseph of Cupertino Province in the USA, Friar Victor ABEGG; the Assistant General for the Conventual Franciscan Federation (CFF) Friar Jude WINKLER, the Assistant General for the Federation of Asian Minors Conventual (FAMC) Friar Benedetto BAEK; and the Provincial Delegate for Vietnam, Friar Luke VU.<br \/>\nAfter the Mass, the friars offered a delicious meal to all the people present and provided entertainment.<br \/>\nThe following day, Friar Marco TASCA celebrated Mass and talked to the postulants about the Order\u2019s presences around the world. He also blessed a statue of St. Francis that was placed in front of the new postulancy house. In the afternoon, the Minister General, along with Friars Victor and Benedetto, spoke to all the friars in the south of Vietnam about the challenges of living our vocation as Franciscans in the world today.<br \/>\nOn March 5, the Minister General and the Minister Provincial went to Van Mon, Vietnam, accompanied by Friars Benedetto, Luke and Ray MALLETT. While there, Friar Victor ABEGG blessed the new friary, which was named after St. Andrew D\u0168NG L\u1ea0C and Companion Martyrs.<br \/>\nOn Ash Wednesday, March 6, the friars spent time visiting some of Van Mon\u2019s Hansen\u2019s disease patients. The friars also visited the Most Reverend Pierre NGUY\u1ec4N V\u0103n \u0110\u1ec7, S.D.B., Bishop of Th\u00e1i B\u00ecnh, Vietnam, and had lunch at his house.<br \/>\nLater that evening, the Minister General and the Assistant General, Friar Benedetto BAEK, flew back to Rome, having completed their five-day, fraternal visit to Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Luke VU, Provincial Delegate<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 5:30 p.m., on March 2, 2019, more than a hundred people, including priests, religious, families, benefactors and friars gathered at the Annunciation Friary in Cu Chi, Vietnam for the dedication and blessing of a new formation house. The Most Reverend Joseph NGUY\u1ec4N T\u1ea5n T\u01b0\u1edbc, Bishop of Ph\u00fa C\u01b0\u1eddng, Vietnam, presided over the liturgy. Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,132,148],"tags":[1359,717,428,1234],"class_list":["post-13886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-famc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-case-di-formazione-en","tag-formation-houses","tag-minister-general","tag-vietnam-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}