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Rev. Benoit Trieu Van Vu, Pastor
Rev. Benoit Trieu Van Vu, Pastor
Rev. Benoit Trieu Van Vu, Pastor
My name
is Benoit Trieu Van Vu. I like to be called Fr. Trieu (pronounced "Chiu"). I was born in Vietnam in a fervent Catholic family of seven children. I am the youngest. My home parish’s name is Yen Tho. It belongs to the Diocese of Phat Diem where the Catholics are very devout and traditional. My Diocese is well known by the orienta
My name
is Benoit Trieu Van Vu. I like to be called Fr. Trieu (pronounced "Chiu"). I was born in Vietnam in a fervent Catholic family of seven children. I am the youngest. My home parish’s name is Yen Tho. It belongs to the Diocese of Phat Diem where the Catholics are very devout and traditional. My Diocese is well known by the oriental architecture of its cathedral.
I have desired to be a priest since when I was around 10 years old. Vietnamese Catholic Church in the 1980s, especially the Church in the north had met a lot of difficulties. However, we, little boys, kept practicing our Catholic faith faithfully and joyfully. We, every day, went to our parish church for evening prayer, even though, at that time ,our church did not have the Blessed Sacrament, because we did not have a pastor. The lack of a pastor and the sacraments raised within me a desire to become a priest.
When I was 22 years old, I entered a Benedictine Monastery in Saigon, but always sensed there was something more. When I was 37 years old, I went to Mt. Angel Abbey in Oregon to study scripture. Through the help of Christ in the Desert Monastery, I was led to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Vocations Office to finish my studies and become a priest. In June 2014, I was ordained to the deaconate and served at St. Charles Borromeo in Albuquerque for one year. I was ordained a priest on May 23, 2015. I was then assigned as the Parochial Vicar at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Bernalillo, NM. I was appointed Pastor of St. Joseph's , Springer, and Immaculate Conception, Cimarron, & missions on June 17, 2017.
I am currently on my 9th year as Pastor at St.Joseph’s and Immaculate Conception and its missions. In the nine years we have gotten grants from the Catholic Foundation of New Mexicoeach year to help fix several of our buildings at St. Joseph’s and for ICC in Cimarron to also help the Food Pantry. While I have been Pastor, I planted quite a few fruit trees on the church compound and have been getting fruit from them for several years. I also have grape vines of which I have madewine to give to my parishioners and had someone help to make jelly. I have abig garden every year which supplies me with vegetables. The biggest thing I started was afundraiser to sell Vietnamese eggrolls. I taught several of the parish ladies howto roll the eggrolls and we meet every few months a make about 500 to 1000 eggrolls and they are usually sold out in one day.
