This just in, from beautiful downtown Brooklyn: a first glimpse at the newest of New York’s deacons, the class of 2009.

Below, scenes from an ordination. I’ll post a link to the Tablet article when it’s published next week. Meantime, blessings and congratulations and — as ever — ad multos annos!

UPDATE: Must be something in the water. Both Googling God and Whispers in the Loggia took cheerful note of the Brooklyn ordinandi.