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Permanent Diaconate Formation Program

 

Are you being called to serve as a Permanent Deacon?

“I FEEL GOD IS CALLING ME TO THE PERMANENT DIACONATE.”

Discerning a vocation for ministry in the Church involves sustained prayer, informative resources, the support of a Permanent Diaconate Formation Program in the Diocese where you will serve, and conversation with family, parish priest and other people. The permanent diaconate is a vocation of service of Word, Liturgy and Charity and it is a life-long commitment.  The role of the deacon is to extend the sacramental presence of Christ's service outside of the church and into the secular world.  

 

Prayer to Know One’s Vocation

Lord, my God and my loving Father, you have made me to know you, to love you, to serve you, and thereby to find and to fulfill my deepest longings.  I know that you are in all things and that every path can lead to you.

But of them all, there is one especially by which you want me to come to you. Since I will do what you want of me, I pray you, send your Holy Spirit to me: into my mind, to show me what you want of me; into my heart, to give me the determination to do it, and to do it with all my love, with all my mind, and with all of my strength right to the end.  Jesus, I trust in you.  Amen.

 

“For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord,

plans for your welfare and not for harm,

to give you a future with hope.  

Then when you call upon me

and come and pray to me, I will hear you.  

When you search for me, you will find me;

if you seek me with all your heart.”

(Jeremiah 29:11-13)

 

Learn more about the Permanent Diaconate Formation Program Committee.

Men experiencing a call to service through the Permanent Diaconate are now journeying in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough, participating in a formation which includes instruction from the clergy of the Diocese, accompaniment from the Deacons and their wives, and the discernment of this call alongside the community.

Click DIACONATE COMMITTEE for more information.

 

Your Discernment

Fill in our online form to indicate your interest in serving as a Permanent Deacon.  There is no obligation - this journey is up to God.  What we offer is lots of support and accompaniment as you discern God's call for your life.

Click HERE.

 

I would like to talk.

Deacon William (Bill) Radigan

Sure!  Please send an email to Deacon Bill Radigan.  

Deacon Bill is the Director of the Diaconate Formation Program for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough, "Called to Serve."  

    

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