Hau Vu

Serra House of Formation — First Few Weeks of the New Formation Year Formation season is officially in full swing, and if you've walked past Serra House lately, you might have noticed a certain buzz in the air, LITERALLY, in some cases, but more on that later. This Saturday, nine new seminarians will receive their Commitment, formally entering and being recognized by our Bishop as full members of the Serra House community. Please keep them close in your prayers as they take this beautiful...

From July 26–30, 2026, our seminarians gathered for the third annual Seminarian Convocation, held this year at the Divine Word Retreat Center in Riverside. It's one of the few retreat houses spacious enough to hold all of our men under one roof, and for many of them, that meant a new and humbling experience: sleeping in a room with fifteen beds, surrounded by the very unglamorous, very human symphony of each other's snoring. It sounds like a small thing. But it was, in its own way, a lesson...

By Fr. Hau Vu There is an old story from the early Church of Peter, fleeing Rome to escape Nero's persecution, meeting a stranger walking the other way down the Appian Road. It is Christ. Startled, Peter asks him the question that would name a road, a legend, and now a retreat: Quo vadis, Domine? Lord, where are you going? Christ answers that he is going to Rome, to be crucified again. Ashamed, Peter turns around and walks back into the very city he was running from, and eventually into his...