Peter's Pickles #5: Understanding the Theme - KTH: Go in Peace!

Hello friends, And, welcome to the latest installment of this blog. For this particular segment, I would like to discuss the purpose and theme of this year’s Khoa Tinh Huan. Khoa Tinh Huan (KTH) is a spiritual retreat held every year by Lien Doan TNF, typically on the weekend after Thanksgiving. Many have come to associate KTH with the initiation of new HTs, but the main focus of this retreat is to develop the spirituality of our organization’s...

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SCL 2016 FIESTA!

Last week on Friday October 7 to Sunday the 9th St. Catherine had its annual Fiesta to raise money for the church. Our youth group joined in again and sold boba: strawberry, mango, peach, thai tea, and ice coffeeeeeeeeee! Our boba booth alone raised over $7,000, combined with the whole Vietnamese community we raised over $15,000! All of your hard work whether it was buying, selling, making, or advertising our boba was well worth it. Your positivity...

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TNF Torrance Khai Giang (First Day) 2016-2017

Welcome back to TNF everybody! On September 10th we officially began TNF and TTGLVN for this school year! There were many new faces and many familiar faces, but despite which face you were, we hope you all enjoyed the first day just like we did!  Blessed with nice weather, cotton candy, and free play, that is how we began ngay khai giang. After lining up, we spilt up. Thieu/ Nghia went to a session with Thay Long and...

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Peter's Pickles #4: Understanding the Theme - What is your Net Worth?

Dear friends, This past weekend, Torrance hosted its 3rd annual One Day Spiritual Retreat, an event aimed at developing the spirituality of our older youth (16+). As Chi Pauline explains, “in preparation for the coming school year, we want to remind ourselves about what is important in our service and renew our faith”-- why we are here. So, the focus of my post will be to explain the theme that was explored at this retreat,...

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August 27, 2016 - One Day Spiritual Retreat for Leaders - "What is Your Net Worth?"

Today, TNF Torrance held our annual One Day Spiritual Retreat for Leaders.  This event was for our members age 16+ and the theme this year was "What is Your Net Worth?" In preparation for the coming school year, we want to remind ourselves about what is important in our service and renew our faith. We welcomed our current and future leaders to experience a day of self-reflection and discussion to talk about our gifts as children...

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Peter's Pickles #3: Love Thy Neighbor

Welcome friends, For those of you that follow the news (or don’t live under a rock), it’s pretty obvious that this isn’t really the best year for humanity. In the past few months alone: Nice, Orlando, Turkey, Baghdad, Dallas… The list goes on, and on— another event being added with every couple of days. It’s bleak and certainly not easy to accept, but this seems to be the direction that the world is moving. But, anyway, why bring...

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Peter's Pickles #2: A Faith We Did Not Choose

There’s this question that I love asking my Giao Ly students on the first day of class every year. It goes something like: “Why are you here? What’s your motivation for being in this class? Why do you go to Mass?” Since it’s the first day, and they’re all trying to make a good impression, it’s not uncommon to hear answers like, “I’m excited to learn more about God”, or “I want to learn how to be a better Catholic”. These are good answers,...

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Peter's Pickles #1: Spirituality and Beginnings

Hello friends, So, since this is my first article, I would like to take a moment to introduce myself and briefly explain my intentions in writing this series. My name is Anh Peter and I am a youth leader of Doan Torrance. The intended audience of this blog series is primarily Nganh Nghia and HT. I am here because I am deeply committed to educating young minds. I find no other vocation as important or enjoyable! When most people hear...

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Ponder with Pauline #1 - New Blog Content Coming Soon

Hi everyone! We're starting new segments on the website this summer. If you look at the top menu bar, there is a new tab called "Blog". You can click it to go to the main page for the blog. It also has a drop down menu where you can choose the name of the author whose posts you would like to read. We'll be updating with more content and each author will have their own tag. New posts will be coming up very soon so please stop by once in a while...

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Hooray it's TNF Torrance's 26th Bday!

Happy 26th bday TNF Torrance!! We hope you all enjoyed yourselves at our past birthday and cheers to many more memories to come with the help of our Mother Mary! On March 19th, the biggest duel happened in Torrance. The ultimate Pokemon gym badge collecting adventure began with teams such as "Team Gary" or "Team Misty" running from station to station collecting gym badges by accomplishing Pokemon themed tasks! Our HT's ran each of these stations...

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Friendly Reminder

Greetings, We would like to remind you that next Saturday (3/19) is our birthday! There will be no Viet Ngu/Giao Ly classes, but we WILL be having Sinh Hoat from 2pm until Mass. We have a lot of fun activities planned, so please have your children come! The following Saturday (3/26), we will not have Sinh Hoat or Classes because of Easter. Thank you for your continued support...

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Chuc Mung Nam Moi!

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! A lot has happened over the past couple weeks in preparation for Tet. Keep on reading to check out how this special day went down. On February 14th, TNF spent the day celebrating both Valentine's Day and Lunar New Year. In the morning all Van nghe dance groups practiced hard whether it came to Mua Lan, Thieu/Nghia, and Nganh Au. While everyone was practicing, we all rooted each other on to get hyped for the big night....

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