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Br.
Joseph Mary Nhan Cao Do, OP
I was born in Dong Nai,
Vietnam. I immigrated to Canada with my family when I was
seventeen. My Dad is one of the many boat peoples who came over to
North America first; then he sponsored the rest of the family. I
have been blessed with all the time I have spent in school since the
date I came to North America. Compared with many of my friends back
home, I was fortunate enough to have a chance to go to school from
the beginning of the English as a Second Language program to regular
high-school student, and to undergraduate studies.
A
year before even I graduated from High-school, my parish pastor,
happened to be a Dominican, invited me to look at the Dominicans
when I considered joining the seminary for one year. So I did.
Before I knew it, I fell in love with the Dominicans’ way of life.
After five years of discerning this vocation to become a Friar,
while at the same time I was pursuing my undergraduate degree, I
applied for the entrance to the Order of Preacher, starting with the
whole year of the Novitiate Program in which I was introduced deeper
into the observances of the monastic life, especially with the
concentration of the four pillars of the Dominican vocation: common
life, common prayer, studies and ministries for the salvation of
souls.
I
made my first profession at the end of the Novitiate on September 1st
2007. When I look back the road I have tread, I must confess that I
wouldn’t make it this far without God’s abundant grace, mercy and
love. My vocation is purely just a response on my part, to begin
with. The rest, or rather, the entire plan of my life, belongs to
God.
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