By the time you read this, I hope that I'll have had the chance to ask your name at least once (though I'll have to ask it again and again, I'm sure!). But if not, my name is Fr. Chi-Nhan Vo, and I'm honored to be here with you all as Fr. Sean's new vicar. I have been praying for you, the parishioners of my first assignment as a priest, for some time—and now I finally get to meet you.

And what prayer? St. Paul says it best in this Sunday's readings to his own people in Philippi: "This is my prayer: that your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception, to discern what is of value, so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God." But he is clear in another place, that it is God alone who gives this "increase." Would that I never get in the way of His love for you and me!