The Connecticut deacon who was rescued from the rubble in Haiti had a chance to tell his story yesterday: Prayers filled his thoughts for 10 hours as Chuck Dietsch awaited rescue or death. All around him, Dietsch heard screams. People were in pain or mourning as they discovered the bodies of loved ones killed from…

My brother deacon Scott Dodge posted a little rumination this weekend on judging.   I judge it to be something we all need to read and ponder: It is an indisputable article of Christian faith that you will be judged. Each Sunday and on solemnities we recite the Credo and say: “He will come again in…

Salt Lake City is preparing to ordain a new class of deacons, the first in several years: Twenty-one men will follow the steps of Saint Stephen when they are ordained as permanent deacons by the Most Rev. John C. Wester, Bishop of Salt Lake next week. St. Stephen, “a man full of faith and of…

This news item popped up earlier today: Two Connecticut residents, including a deacon from Southbury, have been rescued from the wreckage after Haiti’s earthquake, the Hartford Courant reported on its Web site Wednesday morning. The executive director of Haitian Ministries for the Diocese of Norwich, Emily Smack, said two of the organization’s staff were pulled…

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