A Joyful day for the Australian MSC Province

Trieu and Daniel make their perpetual profession,

St Thomas’ Church, Blackburn, had a capacity congregation for the ceremony.

There were three choirs, St Thomas’ Choir, a Vietnamese choir and an Indonesian choir.

Readings in Indonesian and Tagalog

Stephen Hackett MSC, Provincial Superior, received the vows.

Peter Harvey Jackson, their novice master, Chris McPhee, former Provincial,

Peter Hendricks, Province Secretary, and Frank Dineen, former formator, were witnesses to the profession.

Both Trieu

and Daniel spoke warmly

at the end of the ceremony.

And all went over to the school hall, quite crowded, for a lunch-feast, very Asian, very Vietnames, but with a Profession fruitcake.

                                         A day of joy to remember   

                                                                 Photo, Geralyn Anderson, Blackburn parish