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29 June 2003
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‘Unethical’
to kill an embryo
Roll on, Cologne
And
they’re racing ... to help Vinnies
‘Renewal
of my faith’
Seminar ‘rekindles Bible
fire’
Year 9 - May the force be with
you
‘Appoint acting judges’ to solve
visa backlog
Charity race day
Society needs to ‘share pain of others’
Bombs found at Mass site
Movement
seeks inquiry on Iraqi conflict
Cambridge
choir in Sydney visit
China visitors
The Catholic Weekly- Spiritual tension
Letters
Moral
values ‘a major role’ for the Church
Challenge
to your neighbourhood?
Jesus Christ,
the ultimate healer
Parents’ acts
inspired Sr Huyen
Religion, art ‘a
very powerful mix’
Classic
rite controversial, but ‘a jewel’
Real
feelings of life and faith
Bishop Peter
Ingham’s message
Clergy-principals’
conference day
Students share justice
issues
New team looks at needs
New director of vocations
Vocation
Awareness Diocesan Poster Competition
Diocesan
catechists train
Gothic paradise -
the legacy of Pugin
Parents’ acts inspired Sr Huyen
Huyen Nguyen (right) and her parents, Minh and Phuong
For as long
as she can remember, Huyen Nguyen was impressed by her parents’ commitment to
helping the poor and sick, and she wanted to give her life to God by reaching
out to those in need.
When a four-year-old boy died at a leper village she
visited in Vietnam she began to think even more seriously about what she wanted
to do with her life.
Huyen, the youngest of five children, migrated to Brisbane from Vietnam with her parents, Phuong and Minh Nguyen, in 1993.
She worked hard for six years to help her parents settle in, then made contact with the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Melbourne. She began her formation in February in 2000 in Sydney.
She made her first profession of vows as a Daughter of
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart before Bishop David Cremin, auxiliary Bishop of Sydney,
and eight priests, many of them Vietnamese.
Her family, religious sisters and
friends were there, at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, ensington, to hear her pronounce
her vows in her native tongue, as part of a liturgy that included
traditional
Vietnamese hymns.
An important part of Sr Huyen’s journey to religious life was living, praying and working with the Marist Brothers Young Adult Community, with Marist Brothers and other young adults, in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy during 1999.
She now lives at the Hartzer Park Retreat Centre at Burradoo, near Bowral, in the southern highlands.
Fr Jules Chevalier founded the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in 1874.
The first Sisters arrived in Australia in 1885.
Their ministry has an emphasis on care for the poor and the marginalised.