The Diocese of Brownsville will welcome 43 new permanent deacons today.
The Diocese of Brownsville will welcome 43 new permanent deacons today.
Bishop Daniel E. Flores will confer the sacrament of ordination during a 1 p.m. Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle-National Shrine.
The public is invited to attend the ordination for the largest class of new deacons in the history of the diocese.
A deacon is an ordained minister of the Catholic church. There are three groups, or “orders,” of ordained ministers in the church: bishops, presbyters and deacons. Deacons are ordained as a sacramental sign to the church and to the world of Christ, who came “to serve and not to be served,” according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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