“I can feel the Holy Spirit descending upon me” – Bishop Nguyen’s post-ordination interview

Friday, January 15, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

“Once in a while, the Lord takes delight in throwing a curve ball at us.” This is how newly-consecrated Bishop Vincent Nguyen began his final remarks in Toronto’s St. Michael’s Cathedral. It was an apt description of the 43-year-old’s rapid rise as Canada’s youngest bishop, but it also characterizes his family’s dramatic upheaval in Communist […]

Meet Bishop Vincent Nguyen: Live ordination webcast on Wednesday

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

Obtenir le lecteur Flash pour voir cette vidéo. Twenty-six years ago, Vincent Nguyen was a boy dreaming of freedom and a chance to become a priest when he and 19 relatives piled into a wooden fishing boat and prayed they would evade Vietnam’s coastal patrol and slip out to sea. So began The Globe and […]

Meet Bishop William McGrattan: Live ordination webcast on Tuesday

Monday, January 11, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

Obtenir le lecteur Flash pour voir cette vidéo. This Tuesday and Wednesday, Salt + Light Television brings you Canada’s first-ever live webcasts of episcopal ordinations. (Correction: This is an English-language first in Canada–our friends at ECDQ.tv streamed the ordination of Quebec City Auxiliary Bishops Paul Lortie and Gérald Cyprien Lacroix in May.) We begin at […]