{"id":786,"date":"2025-09-30T16:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/?p=786"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:06:24","slug":"the-call-to-the-diaconate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/2025\/09\/30\/the-call-to-the-diaconate\/","title":{"rendered":"New Video Series on the Diaconate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<em>Diaconal Formation and Leadership Today<\/em> announces a new video series on the diaconate hosted by Deacon Andrew Saunders, Co-director of the 4:12 Pathway for Pastoral Leadership with Deacon Ray Duplechain, Director of the Diaconate for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. The series was filmed in New Orleans at the Old Ursuline Convent, the National World War II Museum, and the Basilica of St. Stephen. In this first episode, Deacon Andy and Deacon Ray discuss the call to the diaconate which can come in surprising ways.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Call to the Diaconate\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9qLLi5t2vMo?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diaconal Formation and Leadership Today announces a new video series on the diaconate hosted by Deacon Andrew Saunders, Co-director of the 4:12 Pathway for Pastoral Leadership with Deacon Ray Duplechain, Director of the Diaconate for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. The series was filmed in New Orleans at the Old Ursuline Convent, the National World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2133,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-current-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}