Encountering Christ the Servant: A Spirituality of the Diaconate Wedding fostering deeper conversation and connection

fostering deeper conversation and connection

shape-shifting meanings that challenge

Pope Francis gives to the world this stirring call to come to the manger and encounter Christ anew

who often wrote that in the end “there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint”

Encountering Christ the Servant: A Spirituality of the Diaconate Wedding fostering deeper conversation and connectionReceive the Gospel of Christ whose herald you have become. Believe what you read, teach what you believe, and practice what you teach. These are the words a newly ordained deacon hears from his bishop as the Book of the Gospels is placed in his hands. It is a solemn but joyous moment in which the deacon is called to a lifelong pursuit of bearing witness to Christ the Servant. The foundation of the deacon's diaconate, the very foundation of his