Paschal candles, grains of incense treasured in Vietnam
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Thaddeus Truong Minh Than lights candles at his home on Holy Saturday night in Thua Thien Hue province. (Photo: UCA News)
On Holy Saturday nights, Thaddeus Truong Minh Than lights candles in his home and recites prayers to thank God for saving him from a road accident.
He was found lying unconscious under a truck which hit him while he was riding a motorbike on the way home from Da Nang to Hue on the night of Holy Saturday in 2006.
“In my consciousness I dreamed about myself surrounded by bright light,” Than, then a college student, said. Two days later he regained consciousness at a hospital in Hue.
Vietnamese Catholics revere ancestors in Tet festival
Christians join those of other creeds in performing filial duties to honor their ancestors for the new lunar year
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Elders in traditional costumes perform ancestor worship rites in Uu Diem village on Feb. 8. (Photo: UCA News)
The Tet festival is a wonderful opportunity for people including Catholics in central Vietnam to perform filial duties to their ancestors.
On Feb. 8, young people repainted altars and incense tables vermilion and cleaned candlesticks, ancestral tablets and other items of worship in the communal house in Uu Diem village in Phong Dien district of Thua Thien Hue province.