{"id":936,"date":"2025-11-14T12:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/?p=936"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:19:31","slug":"diakonos-and-hospitality-in-the-early-church-and-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/2025\/11\/14\/diakonos-and-hospitality-in-the-early-church-and-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Diakonos and Hospitality in the Early Church and Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.edu\/theology\/preaching-as-hospitality.html\">The Preaching as Hospitality Formation Program<\/a> at Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology is offering a morning of Advent Reflection on <strong>Saturday, December 13, 9:00a.m. \u2013 12:30p.m. at Bethany Hall, Seton Hall University<\/strong> for Mass and fellowship on the hospitality and collaboration of the Early Church. \u00a0The Many Faces of Hospitality will explore St. Stephen and others as models for the Church\u2019s service past and present.<\/p>\n<p>Although the focus will be on the diaconate through the lens of St. Stephen, it will also emphasize the role of the deacon in empowering and animating the laity through their baptism to ministry and service using examples from scripture.\u00a0 While deacons have a particular charism and are ordained for service, Saint Pope Paul VI at the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council emphasized the \u201cThe Church is in service to all humanity.\u201d The laity has a key role in the service and ministry (diakonia) of the church and so this talk and reflection will be of benefit to them as well as deacons.<\/p>\n<p>The Advent Reflection will be led by Deacon Andrew Saunders, Co-director of the 4:12 Pathway for Pastoral Leadership initiative with a reflection by Deacon Peter Cistaro, former Director of the Permanent Diaconate for the Diocese of Paterson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All are welcomed! <\/strong>Deacons, Deacon Candidates, wives, parishioners and others interested in the call to service and hospitality. <strong>Please<\/strong> <strong>register<\/strong> <strong>by<\/strong> <strong>Monday, <\/strong><strong>December 1, 2025 <\/strong>using the following link <a href=\"https:\/\/events.shu.edu\/event\/44917-st-stephen-deacon-and-collaborator\">https:\/\/events.shu.edu\/event\/44917-st-stephen-deacon-and-collaborator<\/a> or by using the QR code below.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Contact Alyssa Carolan at <a href=\"mailto:alyssa.carolan@shu.edu\">alyssa.carolan@shu.edu<\/a>, 973-275-3775 for questions.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-941 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/files\/2025\/11\/QR-Code-for-Diakonos-and-Hospitality.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Preaching as Hospitality Formation Program at Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology is offering a morning of Advent Reflection on Saturday, December 13, 9:00a.m. \u2013 12:30p.m. at Bethany Hall, Seton Hall University for Mass and fellowship on the hospitality and collaboration of the Early Church. \u00a0The Many Faces of Hospitality will explore St. Stephen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2133,"featured_media":937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}