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"Monsignor" Patrick J Perez
« Reply #85 on: March 05, 2012, 09:45:59 PM »
Quote from: infobomber
What an uncharitable bunch of posts, folks. I am a parishioner. I would be willing to answer any questions you have. Please, no calumny!


How large is the Vietnamese community in the parish?

"Monsignor" Patrick J Perez
« Reply #86 on: March 05, 2012, 11:24:21 PM »
Quote from: infobomber
What an uncharitable bunch of posts, folks. I am a parishioner. I would be willing to answer any questions you have. Please, no calumny!


It's only 'calumny' if the statements are *false*.


"Monsignor" Patrick J Perez
« Reply #87 on: March 06, 2012, 06:21:36 AM »
Quote from: Vladimir
How large is the Vietnamese community in the parish?


You know, I don't know that. I am not very good at estimating numbers. I can say it is a vibrant community with a significant number. We have a catechism class which is in Vietnamese. Also at our annual Oktoberfest we have a booth with Vietnamese food. At Lunar New Year Monsignor greeted the Vietnamese in Vietnamese saying something like, May you have a happy new year. And you'll see a lady or two wear the nice Vietnamese gown for a special occasion. So the presence is there.

Quote from: Iuvenalis
Quote from: infobomber
What an uncharitable bunch of posts, folks. I am a parishioner. I would be willing to answer any questions you have. Please, no calumny!


It's only 'calumny' if the statements are *false*.


Yes, I understand. I personally know Monsignor, and most of the comments thus far were based on ignorance, a lack of charity, and some downright lies, like he is out for money. Absolutely terrible! What a complete lack of respect, or even common decency. Monsignors been giving his whole life to tradition for over twenty years now, and treated like dirt by most of the Church, and here are "trads" doing the same, just from the opposite extreme. It was pretty shameful and surprising when out of dungs and giggles I googled Monsignor, and out spits this thread. Definitely some calumny, also come detraction, and what even seems like a bit of sour grapes. So I offered to give someone informed answers who wanted the truth, good or bad, from a charitable perspective.

"Monsignor" Patrick J Perez
« Reply #88 on: March 07, 2012, 07:51:01 PM »
Quote from: Vladimir


How large is the Vietnamese community in the parish?


It's quite small. There's only about 8 people who attend the Vietnamese catechism class, and there's a few other Vietnamese families who attend the parish that I'm aware of.

"Monsignor" Patrick J Perez
« Reply #89 on: March 07, 2012, 10:36:56 PM »
Thank you both for the information. 8 people is a start. Do you happen to know what type of catechism class it is? Is it for catechumens? Recent newcomers to tradition? Simply a sort of get-to-together-and-study-the-catechism club (such clubs thrive in the Vietnamese Novus Ordo communities, and they are usually beneficial to the faith)?

The church is in the middle of the largest over-seas Vietnamese community in the world; a few families is at least something. Unfortunately, due to the concentration of various Oriental immigrants in that area, a number of ethnic Protestant churches have popped up; many cults surrounding a self-proclaimed mystic, etc also exist in that area. This does make the Novus Ordo goers suspicious, and rightly so, of churches not connected to the Diocese.