Permanent Deacons – Life on the Chrism Trail

Reflection for Vespers for Thursday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time

Oath of Fidelity for Candidates for Diaconate Ordination

August 7, 2025
St. Patrick Cathedral
Fort Worth, Texas

Psalm 72
Psalm 72
Revelation 11:17-18; 12:10b-12a:3-4
1 Peter 1:22-23

Every time we pray vespers, we pray the Magnificat, the song of praise sung by Our Lady at the Visitation of her cousin Elizabeth. Her song is a song of hope in God’s triumphant intervention into human history, and it reveals her to be filled with God’s Grace, her trusting dependence and complete communion with God and calls us to our own reliance on His grace in our own vocations. Like so many other graces from God, we can take for granted the message of the Magnificat that we pray every day.

Homily for the Feast of St. Lawrence: Ordination of Permanent Deacons

Photo by NTC/Juan Guajardo

Homily
Feast of St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr

August 10, 2020
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church
Keller, Texas

Jeremiah 1:4-9
Psalm 112:1-2, 5-6, 7-9
2 Corinthians 9:6-10
John 12:24-26

Antes que nada, felicidades a nuestros candidatos para el diaconado permanente, y también quiero expresar mi gratitud a las familias, especialmente a las esposas, de nuestros candidatos. Gracias por decir “Si” a la llamada que Cristo les ha dado a ustedes.