What is the Role of a Deacon?

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mike Gormley and Dave VanVickle talk about reviving the diaconate. They discuss how deacons are not just “married priests” but that they have different yet important roles. They also talk about the origin of the diaconate, how the role has evolved through the ages, and share their raw thoughts on the diaconate.

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“I’m grateful for the diaconate because I’ve always seen it as a part of the way the Church has ministered over the centuries, the way the Apostolic Church saw a need to fulfill and I think also the purpose of the Cross of Jesus Christ is to keep us in mind that our job is to be a sacrifice for other people.”

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0:00.0	I'm grateful for the deaccony because I've always seen it as a part of the way the church
0:04.9	has ministered over the centuries, the way the apostolic church saw a need to fulfill.
0:11.0	And I think also the purpose of the cross of Jesus Christ is to keep us in mind that
0:16.6	our job is to be a sacrifice for other people.
0:32.3	Yeah. like our job is to be a sacrifice for other people. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to every knee shall bow your weekly Catholic
0:36.6	podcast on evangelization and discipleship.
0:39.8	My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am joined today as always by Dave, Servant to the
0:45.4	servants of God Van Vickle. How you doing, Dave? Are you declaring me Pope? Maybe. Pope of my heart.
0:51.8	Pope of my heart. I already held that title.
0:56.1	Sorry, Shannon.
0:57.4	I'm doing well.
0:58.7	I mean, it's just plugging away here at the Van Vigal household school, writing, speaking, all those things.
1:06.1	What are you working on with school stuff?
1:08.1	I'm doing a class on the priesthood this summer and I'm doing a class on
1:11.1	the atonement. Ooh, who's teaching that? I'm doing self-directed studies, remember? Oh. So I'm hoping
1:18.0	Hildebrand will be the person, but I haven't asked him yet. So the priesthood one is going to be
1:22.9	Cyrilla. Okay. When you're studying the atonement, what are you doing? What are you going through?
1:27.5	What are you reading?
1:28.9	Oh, you're putting me on the spot.
1:31.0	I don't have my books with me, but I have a whole stack of things.
1:34.8	But, yeah, I mean, I've got them all for me pretty much, I think, over the years.
1:39.1	I think that's beautiful.
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