|
1 members (theophan),
377
guests, and
95
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums26
Topics35,522
Posts417,629
Members6,175
| |
Most Online4,112
Mar 25th, 2025
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 1,133
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 1,133 |
Please join me in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the ordination to the permanent diaconate of 14 men for the archdiocese of Los Angeles, including this unworthy servant.
May God guard us and keep us. May He make the ministry of all my brother deacons fruitful and acceptable to His Infinite Majesty.
Blessed be God forever!
Shalom,
Deacon Memo
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 616
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 616 |
Axios! Axios! Axios!
Fr Deacon El
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,125 Likes: 1
Za myr z'wysot ... Member
|
|
Za myr z'wysot ... Member
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,125 Likes: 1 |
Axios! May God bless your ministry and multiply its fruits.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 7,309 Likes: 3
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 7,309 Likes: 3 |
Axios.
But let's stop calling it the "permanent diaconate", as though the order is bifurcated. The diaconate is the diaconate, an order in its own right, with its own charism. If some men are selected to advance from the diaconate to the presbyterate, well and good. But their diaconate is no different from that of the men who choose to remain within that order. Until the Latin Church gets over its artificial division of the diaconate into "permanent" and "transitional" deacons, the dignity and integrity of the order will never fully be restored.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 2,885
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 2,885 |
Could not be said better. 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 1,133
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 1,133 |
I agree. A deacon is a deacon is a deacon.
Thank you all for your prayers and your kind words.
Shalom,
Memo
Last edited by Memo Rodriguez; 06/14/11 08:30 PM.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 1998
Posts: 4,337 Likes: 24
Moderator Member
|
|
Moderator Member
Joined: Aug 1998
Posts: 4,337 Likes: 24 |
Many years!
Fr. Deacon Lance
My cromulent posts embiggen this forum.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 10,930
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 10,930 |
Many years Fr. Deacon Memo!
With it you bring your love of the East, you will have a lot to share through the years.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 10,090 Likes: 16
Global Moderator Member
|
|
Global Moderator Member
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 10,090 Likes: 16 |
Axios! Axios! Axios!
Congratultions and may God grant many years in His service to our brother and friend, Deacon Memo.
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 1,133
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 1,133 |
Thank you! May God bless us all!
Shalom,
Memo
|
|
|
|
|
