Reverend Father Huy Nguyen; Diocese of Calgary
Education
Associate Professor of Moral, Spiritual, and Pastoral Theology
Director of Pastoral Formation; Formation Director (Pastoral Interns)
M.Div., Newman Theological College
S.T.L., Pastoral Theology, Pontifical Lateran University
S.T.D. (Cand.), Pastoral Theology, Pontifical Lateran University
Biography
The second youngest in a family of thirteen children, Fr. Huy was born in Vietnam and moved to Calgary with his family when he was 16 years old. He studied philosophy at Mount Angel Seminary in Oregon, U.S.A., and received his theological training at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Edmonton. Father Huy was ordained a priest for the diocese of Calgary on July 19th, 2002 at McMahon Stadium, along with three of his classmates. He served for two years as associate pastor at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Calgary. In 2004, he began his studies in Rome at the Pontifical University of St. John Lateran. Upon his return to Canada in 2008, Fr. Huy joined the formation team at St. Joseph’s Seminary, serving as group director (Theology I), director of pastoral formation and the pastoral internship year. He is also director of theological field education program and teaches pastoral theology at Newman Theological College.
Reflection
“Pastoral study and action direct one to an inner source, which the work of formation will take care to guard and make good use of: This is the ever-deeper communion with the pastoral charity of Jesus… And so pastoral formation certainly cannot be reduced to a mere apprenticeship, aiming to make the candidate family with some pastoral techniques. The seminary which educates must seek really and truly to initiate the candidate into the sensitivity of being a shepherd, in the conscious and mature assumption of responsibilities, in the interior habit of evaluating problems and establishing priorities and looking for solutions on the basis of honest motivations of faith and according to the theological demands inherent in pastoral work” (Pastoral dabo Vobis, no. 57-58).
Courses Taught
MPS 100 / STP 400: Introduction to Pastoral Theology
MPS 230 / STP 464: Practice of Ministry
MPS 130 / STP 463: Theology of Ministry
MPS 139 / STP470: Theological Field Education
Publications
(To be posted.)
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