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The Deacon's Bench

This comes from our Eastern Rite desk. Check out these vestments.  This is why God gave the world Kodachrome. 

Get a load of this:  The image above comes courtesy American Papist and shows, incredibly, over 800 men being ordained at once in Spain in the 1950’s.    Visit this link for more details and pictures that will make your jaw drop. 

The story, and pictures, here.

A new batch of deacons is about to be ordained in California, and the local paper is catching on to something many of us have known for a while:  Armando Hernandez   Photo by David Bauman, The Press-Enterprise  As the number of Catholic priests in the United States continues to decline, men like Armando Hernández…

An alert reader wanted me to know about an essay by a friend of his, Susan Windley-Daoust, appearing in this week’s America magazine.  It’s a stunner: a beautiful and thought-provoking look at prayer and vocation, all seen through the experience of giving birth:  It was only after I gave birth three times–one by Caesarean section and two…

I did a house blessing this morning, and it seemed like an opportune time to offer a blessing for my own new home, too. Take a look.

This morning, I was invited by a couple in my parish to bless their apartment.  This is one of the many unexpected joys of being in ministry, and it gives me a chance to meet people — literally — “where they live.”  (I wrote about my first experience doing a house blessing a couple years…

From the Christ-haunted mind of The Anchoress: I dash all of my fury, all of my love, all of my passion against the cross of Christ, and settle beneath their shards and fragments as they rain down upon me, and pass and bite and dissolve. And I pray, most particularly for the event or the…

This weekend, I will start blogging at my new address. You’ll find me at this link. The URL: http://blog.beliefnet.com/deaconsbench/ I expect Beliefnet will forward people automatically, but it might be a good idea to change your bookmarks. So…come by and visit! I’ll look forward to seeing you there. Meantime, happy trails. And Happy Friday.

Well, here we are. To those of you who have been following “The Deacon’s Bench” at my previous address, welcome back! Good to have you here. Please excuse the boxes and bubble wrap. I hope to have the place tidied up soon. I’m still learning my way around the Beliefnet neighborhood, so posting may be…
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