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Some weeks back, I wrote about the challenge of singing the Exultet — and I’ve gone on record describing my own experience scaling that mountain for the first time. Now the refrain has been picked up by the Catholic Review in Baltimore: Every Easter Vigil, deacons throughout the archdiocese face one of the most challenging…

This obituary from the Philadelphia Daily News caught my eye: it’s about a priest who was ordained late in life and, in a rare exception, served as a permanent deacon for a number of years before entering the priesthood: The Rev. Msgr. Albert V. Norrell was a priest before he became a priest. That is,…

A man who might well be reckoned a giant in the diaconate community has left us. A suburban Chicago paper takes note: One of the most influential figures in the Archdiocese of Chicago’s program to prepare men to become ordained deacons has died. John Pistone, a 30-year deacon at St. Thomas of Villanova Church in…

Below is a first glimpse (or second, thanks to Rocco) of Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s new coat of arms that will soon adorn St. Patrick’s. An explanation of what it all means — and a nod to the permanent deacon, Paul J. Sullivan, who designed it — is right here. The Latin phrase, by the way,…
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