Priest Profile

MEET DEACON HAO & TERESA NGUYEN

BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH, WESTMINISTER

By STAFF     10/13/2016

YEARS MARRIED: 28

CHILDREN: 2

GRANDCHILDREN: 2

YEARS IN THE DIACONATE: 7

HOW THEY MET: “We met at a Christmas party of McDonnell Douglas Company in Long Beach.”

WHAT YOU LIKE TO DO FOR FUN AS A COUPLE: Watching our Seattle Seahawks, Washington Huskies and Mater Dei football games.

WHAT DREW HIM TO THE DIACONATE: To be a bridge that connects our generation to the next generation.

HIS MOST MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE: “My memorable experience was my first funeral Mass for my beloved spiritual guidance Anna Phuc Le.”

HIS GREATEST CHALLENGE: “My biggest challenge was not being able to fulfill the needs of the people with mental health problems in my parish.”

FAVORITE SCRIPTURE: 1 Corinthians 12:11 – “When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.”