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People in the Diocese of Worcester are ministering to people in their primary language. They work with mostly seniors who are homebound, hospitalized or in nursing homes.

WORCESTER – Little Sisters of the Assumption came from Paris recently to see their congregation’s members, and to visit the ministries which aging sisters are passing on to lay people.

Deacon Gustavo Correa talked vivaciously about his love for Jesus, favorite saints and devotions, and thoughts about his vocation as he anticipated his June 3 priestly ordination.

On June 3 Deacon Peter Phuong Phi Bui is to become the diocese’s first Vietnamese-American priest. His godfather, Father Phuong Van Nguyen, was one of the first immigrants from Vietnam ordained to serve the Diocese of Worcester as a priest.

Maryann Lindgren and Franca Martin, parishioners at Annunciation Parish in Gardner, recently began their mission to visit area churches with an Our Lady of America statue and information about the devotion.