Hau Vu

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...

By Fr. Hau Vu, Vocations Director The world has been captivated by soccer. Every four years, the World Cup has a way of bringing people together. Families gather around televisions, strangers become friends for ninety minutes, and entire nations unite behind one team. There is something beautiful about the game. But I would argue that there is something even more beautiful than the World Cup. It is a soccer match between priests and seminarians. That may sound like an exaggeration until you...