Deacon Minh-Tan (“Tan”) Hoang will become the latest Augustinian priest to be ordained on Friday, 4th June 2010 at St Augustine’s College Sydney. For the past nine months, Tan has worked as a deacon at Villanova College and at the local Augustinian Parish in Coorparoo. He finds himself lucky to be given this experience to interact with students and the elderly from the college and parish respectively. From the time he first started with the Augustinians, he feels that experiences like this have changed the way he looks at life and himself, “It’s not just about my happiness, but about the happiness and the well being of the people I come to meet.”
With the ordination in just over two weeks, Tan feels the response and excitement from the people that look forward to being there with him when he will be ordained. He says, “There are people coming down from Brisbane which I was surprised to hear because this year was my first year to be with them. It made me think, what did I give to them that I got this response back?”
We look forward to welcome the latest edition to the Augustinian priesthood in early June and all are welcome to be a part of the special occasion. Information of the weekend celebration can be seen below.
Event information
Ordination to the priesthood
When: Friday, 4th June 2010 at 7:30 pm
Where: St Augustine’s College in the Brimson Centre, Federal Parade Brookvale NSW
Rececption follows
Thanksgiving mass in Vietnamese
When: Saturday, 5th June 2010 at 11:00 am
Where: St. Therese’ Church, 15 Garrong Rd, Lakemba, NSW
Reception follows
Thanksgiving mass
When: Sunday, 5th June 2010 at 9:30 am
Where: St. Kieran’s Church, King St, Manly Vale, NSW
Reception follows
Please RSVP before May 31st 2010
About the man
Tan was born at Cam Ranh Bay in a village called Xuan Ninh in Vietnam, is a member of a large family that fled their homeland as refugee “boat people” after the Vietnam War. Tan graduated from secondary school in Wollongong, and successfully studied to become a registered nurse.
In February 2002 he was accepted into the Augustinian Formation Centre at Brookvale, and began a novitiate year there later that year. He made his Simple Profession of Augustinian vows at St Kieran’s Church, Manly Vale on 29th June 2003, and his Solemn Profession there on 25th June 2006.
He was sent to St Monica’s College, the Order’s international seminary in Rome, for his priestly studies, which he has recently completed. He was ordained to the diaconate at St James’s Church in the Augustinian parish at Coorparoo (Brisbane) on Saturday, 29th August 2009.
