{"id":949,"date":"2025-11-20T17:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/?p=949"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:26:02","slug":"deacons-driving-force-of-the-churchs-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/2025\/11\/20\/deacons-driving-force-of-the-churchs-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Deacons: \u201cDriving Force For the Church\u2019s Service\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nIn part 2 of <em>Diaconal Formation and Leadership Today<\/em> video series, Deacon Andy Saunders discusses with Deacon Ray Duplechain, Director of the Diaconate for the Archdiocese of New Orleans that deacons have a particular charism of service which is sacramentalized at ordination. It is an \u201con your knees\u201d washing feet mentality modeled after Jesus Christ. Both Pope St. Paul VI and later Pope St. John Paul II would refer to the deacon as the \u201cdriving force for the church\u2019s service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series was filmed in New Orleans at the Old Ursuline Convent, the National World War II Museum, and the Basilica of St. Stephen.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9qLLi5t2vMo&amp;t=17s\"><strong>View part 1: The Call to the Diaconate<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In part 2 of Diaconal Formation and Leadership Today video series, Deacon Andy Saunders discusses with Deacon Ray Duplechain, Director of the Diaconate for the Archdiocese of New Orleans that deacons have a particular charism of service which is sacramentalized at ordination. It is an \u201con your knees\u201d washing feet mentality modeled after Jesus Christ. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2133,"featured_media":955,"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-949","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\/949","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=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}