Hau Vu

By Fr. Hau, Director of Vocations, Diocese of San Bernardino “Peace! Be still!” — Mark 4:39 Everybody is talking about Artificial Intelligence these days. Is it going to save the world? Is it going to take over the world? Depends on who you ask. AI can write you a song, paint you a picture, and plan your whole week. What it cannot do is forgive your sins, calm the storm in your heart, or fill a seminary lawn with more than five hundred young adults on a Saturday night. So while the whole...

Serra House of Formation — First Few Weeks of the New Formation Year Formation season is officially in full swing, and if you've walked past Serra House lately, you might have noticed a certain buzz in the air, LITERALLY, in some cases, but more on that later. This Saturday, nine new seminarians will receive their Commitment, formally entering and being recognized by our Bishop as full members of the Serra House community. Please keep them close in your prayers as they take this beautiful...

From July 26–30, 2026, our seminarians gathered for the third annual Seminarian Convocation, held this year at the Divine Word Retreat Center in Riverside. It's one of the few retreat houses spacious enough to hold all of our men under one roof, and for many of them, that meant a new and humbling experience: sleeping in a room with fifteen beds, surrounded by the very unglamorous, very human symphony of each other's snoring. It sounds like a small thing. But it was, in its own way, a lesson...