CONGRATULATIONS! Congratulations to Deacon Thi Pham, SCJ, who was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Richard Sklba on Saturday, August 12, at Sacred Heart Monastery in Hales Corners, Wis. Bishop Sklba poses with Dn. Thi Pham's family. Dn. Thi was ordained at Sacred Heart Monastery on Saturday. He will be doing his diaconate internship at Christ the King parish in Mississippi. Dn. Thi, 31, is originally from Vietnam. He is…

The Province Vocation Office and Vocation Central have a few new faces in 2008. Fr. Thi Pham, SCJ, is now director of the office and Fr. Mark Mastin, SCJ, will soon join him. A Vietnamese immigrant, Fr. Thi came to the United States when he was a child and settled with his family in San Antonio. Soon after high school graduation in 1995, he was a candidate with the Priests…