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🔻 1. LUẬT HẤP DẪN
– Cái gì giống nhau → hút nhau
– Cùng tần số nào → hút tần số đấy
– Mây tầng nào → bay tầng đó
► Không có điều gì tự nhiên xảy ra trong cuộc sống. Nếu ta có trường năng lượng tốt thì sẽ hút được những điều tốt đẹp

🔻 2. LUẬT NHÂN QUẢ
– Ta muốn giàu sang → gieo hạt hào phóng.
– Muốn nhận tình yêu thương → gieo hạt yêu thương.
– Để nhận quả sức khỏe → gieo hạt sự sống.
► Muốn điều gì thì gieo điều nấy.

🔻 3. LUẬT CÂN BẰNG
– Muốn nhận được nhiều hơn → hãy cho đi, cống hiến nhiều hơn
– Tư duy của ta đến đâu → tài chính của ta đến đó.
– Tư duy được nâng lên → mọi thứ sẽ được nâng lên.
► Ta nhận lại được chính xác những gì mình đã cho đi trong cuộc đời này.

🔻 4. LUẬT TRONG NGOÀI
– Muốn bên ngoài ta vui vẻ ↔ bên trong phải vui vẻ.
– Muốn thế giới bên ngoài ta tốt đẹp ↔ thế giới bên trong ta phải tốt đẹp.
► Ta hãy cố gắng từ bên trong.

🔻 5. LUẬT TẬP TRUNG
– Cái gì tập trung vào → cái đấy sẽ càng mở rộng.
– Tập trung vào sự vui vẻ, tích cực → cuộc sống có nhiều niềm vui và sự tích cực.

🔻 6. LUẬT NHẤT QUÁN
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FUNERAL HOMILY FOR REV. DUC QUANG DUONG
DIOCESE OF BEAUMONT- NOVEMBER 12, 2021
ST. ANTHONY BASILICA CATHEDRAL

(Fr. Khanh Ho)

(Readings: Isaiah 25:6a, 7-9, IThess 4:13-18, Jn 1:35-42)
****English version

AND HE SAID “YES”- NOT TO A WEDDING PROPOSAL, BUT TO OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST…
Just like the first disciples of Jesus responded to the invitation of the Lord to follow Him, Fr. Duc Duong also said “yes” to Jesus to become His disciple. The simple “Yes” cost him 29 years just to be a seminarian before he could become a priest.

Fr. Duc and I, we went to the same seminary, the Minor HOAN THIEN Seminary of the Archdiocese of Hue, in the Central of Vietnam. Fr. Duc was two years older and one class ahead of me, but he looked younger because he always smiled and happy, made him look young; but I do have more hair than him! He started the seminary life in 1971 as a young and innocent 7th grader but he could only be ordained in 2000; so basically, he was a seminarian for 29 years long!

Our seminary was confiscated by the Communist government in 1979, four years after the North Communists took over the South of Vietnam in 1975. Only a few months later, I managed to escape from Vietnam on a little boat to Hong Kong and then to the USA and became a priest in 1990. I think my ordination opened the eyes of many of my former seminarian friends in Vietnam to realize that if they wanted to be priests, they had to get out of the country. As for Fr. Duc, during the years after our seminary was closed, he served faithfully to his home parish as a catechist, a choir director, and made his living as a photographer. Many of his CCE students still keep in touch with him until today. They had a great admiration for him as a man of faith, a faithful follower of Jesus, and a trusted friend. Seminarian Duc was almost imprisoned by the Communist government several times, simply because he dared to teach catechism in public.

Duc later decided to escape from Vietnam, together with five other seminarians, and arrived in Hong Kong in the middle of 1991, after a dangerous trip on a little boat across the Pacific Ocean. I was just a young priest back then, assigned parochial vicar to St. Jude Thaddeus here in Beaumont. President Clinton normalized the relationship between the two countries, and for the first time, I was able to visit Vietnam in 1992. With the blessing of Bishop Bernard Ganter, I made a stop in Hong Kong to visit my seminarian friends and to get all necessary documents to start the sponsorship to bring them over to Beaumont. They arrived at the Jefferson Airport in 1993, but soon after their arrival, bishop Ganter fell sick and died of cancer. Judicial Vicar Msgr. Sidney Marceaux and then the Diocesan Admistrator Msgr. Nestor Enderle told me nothing they could do because they were in no position to either accept or to deny a seminarian during that time. I decided to send my friends to different dioceses, wherever there was a need for a Vietnamese seminarian. Our plan was derailed again, but they all remained faithful to their calling; and with the grace of God, they all became priests, working effectively in different dioceses.

As for Fr. Duc, he took a long detour before he came back to Beaumont. I think God decided to have more fun with him! I sent him first to the Diocese of Raleigh in North Carolina and then to the Archdiocese of Chicago. When I was still pastor at St. Joseph church in Beaumont, Duc came back to visit me during a Lunar New Year celebration. He ended up to be a Master of Ceremony of the Festival and kept making people laugh. The new bishop, Bishop Joseph Galante leaned over to Fr. Luong Tran and inquired about Duc. The next morning, Bishop Galante invited Duc over to his office and asked him if he wanted to return to Beaumont. Fr. Duc said “yes.” Bishop asked him, “Why?” He replied, “Chicago, too cold!”

The rest is history. He was sent to Notre Dame Seminary and was ordained to the priesthood on June 10, 2000. Today, God called him back home after being a priest for 21 years and dedicating his life as a seminarian for 29 years, 50 years together to serve the people of God in the best ways he knew how. As we talked often about our life, Fr. Duc and I truly believed that God derailed our earthly plans only to teach us to submit and to totally trust in Him. God is the only one who can draw a straight line out of our crooked path. He knows what would be best for us. Trust in Him everything will be fine!

I guess we were also affected deeply by the spirituality of our seminary founder, the late Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, who is just one step away from being canonized by the Universal Church. Fr. Duc and I had a chance to visit his church in Rome, the Santa Maria della Scalla. The late Cardinal’s episcopal motto was “Gaudium et Spes,” (Joy and Hope). Even though he was imprisoned by the Communists for 13 years, including 9 years in confinement, he never lost his joy and his hope. Similarly, Fr. Duc never lost his hope and his joy. He never lost hope because, I guess, he was “the Duke,” John Wayne the Duke, the tough guy! Seriously, he never lost hope because he always trusted in the Lord. He was obviously a testimony of joy. He made people laugh easily. He made people feel comfortable because he was always down to earth and he had all kind of jokes to tell. He loved and treasured friendship. He could talk to anybody at length. Once in a while, I heard he told people that he got to look out for the lost sheep, for the people with failed marriages, to bring them back to the Church and to give Fr. Luong and Fr. Khanh something to do at the Tribunal! It seemed he thought that we did not have enough cases to work on at the Tribunal!

Fr. Duc was truly a good shepherd. He also loved to fish. He said that we need to learn to fish so that we can truly be “fishers of men!” He will be missed. We already miss him dearly. Just like many of people who know him, the last few days I felt like a big part of myself was missing. But to know him, I know that he does not want us to be sad, but to be happy, not to worry but to trust in the providence and love of God. Prophet Isaiah reminds us in the first reading today that,
“On this mountain the Lord of hosts
Will provide for all peoples.
On this mountain he will destroy
The veil that veils all peoples…
The Lord will wipe away
The tears from all faces…

We will see Fr. Duc again in Paradise. At that time, we will be able to sing Karaoke again with him. In the meantime, rest in peace, my dear friend and my brother priest!

When he left Vietnam, he could not say goodbye to many people because he left the country in a hurry. This time, his life was also cut short, he did not have any chance to say goodbye to people whom he loved. But knowing him, I know that he wanted to give thanks to Fr. Andy Moor, his pastor and the wonderful people of Infant Jesus and St. Mark’s communities, to Fr. Khue Bui and the wonderful people of St. Joseph’s Beaumont and St. Catherine of Siena parishes, to Fr. Shane Baxter and St. Anthony Basilica Cathedral, to many people who truly loved and cared for him. He wanted to say sorry to Bishop Curtis Guillory and Msgr. Michael Jamail for putting up with him too long! He wanted to thank Bishop David Toups, in a very special way, for graciously visiting him so many times in the hospital. He also wanted to give thanks to family members and dear friends, near and far, who always loved and supported him, thanks to the medical staffs of all the hospitals that took care of him the last few months, thanks to Broussard’s Funeral Home for making him look good in the casket! For all people who took care of him during this difficult time of his life, especially Ginny Nguyen, his dear and faithful friend, and his brother Trong and sister-in-law Vui. To all the priests of Beaumont, he wanted to say goodbye and please continue to pray for him. Until we see each other again, he would say! God bless you all!

(Now, please allow me to address Vietnamese people who suffer greatly with the sudden death of Fr. Duc, in our language, and especially to his family in Vietnam.)