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keeps faith in God’s Love and advance in peace and development.
The 1975 event was the biggest crisis in the history of Vietnam and the most
important turn around for the Congregation. In the morning of 3/19/1975, after
the last mass celebrated at the Chapel of the Congregation by Fr. Nguyen Tien
Huynh, the sisters repeated their profession of Vows, took away the Eucharist,
holding up their compassion to visit the dead sisters at the Congregation’s
graveyard, Sr. General Superior Mary Gonzaga Do Thi Tung and a group of other
sisters, dreadful, carrying their belongings, joined others sisters to migrate to Da
Nang and went to the Community in Noi Ha to stay temporarily. A bigger group
of sisters found their way to go to Saigon, others joined their family to migrate.
After staying in Noi Ha for a while, on 4/11/1975, when a group of ten sisters
found out that Hue was liberated on 3/26/ 75, they took the first car trip to go
back home, to the Mother House in Hue. On the following days, other sisters
who migrated with their family, little by little, returned to the Mother House
too. They witnessed the devastated sites of the Mother House after less than a
month of absence. On 4/14/1975 while the sisters were cleaning up the mess,
Father Batholomew Nguyen Quang Anh brought in the permission paper – where
Archbishop Philipphe Nguyen Kim Dien had signed - to let the Congregation
know that the communist government army had borrowed the Mother House.
All the sisters present were perplexed, frightened, and sorrowful, but submitted...
They hoped that in a short time, the Communist army will return our Mother
House to us. During this period of losing the Mother House, the sisters went to
live temporarily in the Carmel.

Returning the Mother House Event

Day and night, anxious, broken-hearted, the sisters could only hope that the
Government Army returns the Mother House to the Congregation. But the
Superior General Do Thi Tung was quite often invited by the communist
army ,and ased her to sign the paper to offer the whole building Complex of
the Mother House to the Government army : “ No, she decidedly said to their
administrator, I am only the representative of the Congregation, I can never sign
such a paper. If you wanted to, you could kill me or put me in prison but I will
never sign it... because the property is not mine alone. It belongs to every sister
in the Congregation...”
How much more did they want the sisters to worry, to toss in sleep, and to wait
for the best of news? Especially after so many times the Congregation had sent
the Sisters to Hanoi to ask the government to listen to our dearest request to give
back our Mother House? Nineteen longest years of waiting had passed!

And December 13 of the year 1994 came! The most Happy Day of the
Congregation!.. Mother House was returning to the Congrgation! The happiest
news, flowing over thousands of miles, had reached all the sisters residing in 10
different dioceses in Vietnam as well as abroad. Joy and happiness burst out... It

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