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...that this Sunday, our two Candidates for the Permanent Diaconate will receive the Orders of Acolyte and Lector?

Michael Denton and Bill Polakowski are in the final part of their 5-year-long formation as Deacons, with training in theology, liturgy, canon law, and preaching! As part of their formation, they have been active in a variety of parish ministries – Bill, of course, is our Parish Youth Minister and Confirmation instructor, among his other activities in the Parish, and, Michael has been coordinating our ministry with the Korean Catholic Community, in addition to assisting with the preparation of marriage cases, and other duties as assigned!

This Sunday, we are privileged to celebrate here at St. Andrew’s, their formal installation in the Orders of Acolyte and Lector. (These Orders were formerly among the “Minor Orders,” which were limited to those preparing for the Priesthood, and the “Call to Orders” is still the formal first rite in the Ordination process!)

Normally, the installation in the Orders of Acolyte and Lector, takes place in the Cathedral in Tucson. This year, because of the ‘covid protocols,’ Bishop Weisenburger, has delegated this installation to the pastors of the Candidates’ parishes, and so we will celebrate the rite at the 10:00 AM (‘livestreamed’) Mass this Sunday, and invite you to tune-in or watch it later!

Candidates Bill and Michael’s Ordination to the (Permanent) Diaconate is scheduled for Saturday, 5 June, at St. Augustine Cathedral. There will be 26  Ordained that day, and bringing the grace of their Diaconal service to parishes across the Diocese. At this time, we believe that our two new Deacons will be assigned to St. Andrew’s/Good Shepherd!

Please continue to pray for our Candidates and their families, as they take this next very important step in their journey to the Diaconate!

“Three things that please God most are: true faith in God with a pure heart, a simple life with a grateful spirit, and generosity inspired by charity. The three things that most displease God are: a mouth that hates people, a heart harboring resentments, and confidence in wealth.”

                                                                                        - St. Ita of Killeedy  (480-570)

This  week’s  Question: “Why are the crosses and statues veiled the last two weeks of Lent?”

The answer to last week’s Question: “What is a ‘Rubric’?” ‘Rubrica’ – ‘red’, in Latin – was the color in which Romans wrote laws. Following this practice, monks and printers after them, used red ink in manuscripts and Church books for headings, directions, titles and such. The word ‘rubric’ has come to mean any official instructions. There is an old saying in liturgical circles that if you’re paying more attention to the red letters than the black letters, you’re not really praying!

(If you would like to be as well-informed as the “Quiz Master” – pick up a copy of the Catholic Source Book, available in the Parish Office, for only $20!)

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