{"id":967,"date":"2026-01-20T12:29:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/?p=967"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:53:09","slug":"the-identity-of-the-deacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/2026\/01\/20\/the-identity-of-the-deacon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Identity of the Deacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nIn part 3 of\u00a0<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 the Identity of the Deacon. Society often identifies deacons by what we do and our functions. But Deacon Ray explains it is not in the \u201cdoing\u201d but in the &#8220;being\u201d that truly defines the identity of a deacon.<\/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><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9qLLi5t2vMo&amp;t=17s\">View part 1: The Call to the Diaconate<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-L8fpP-2CA8&amp;list=PLppHCkhATHuUdKqIaXSLJhpXIKa0-pcN7&amp;index=3&amp;t=11s\">View part 2: Deacons: \u201cDriving Force for the Church\u2019s Service\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In part 3 of\u00a0Diaconal Formation and Leadership Today video series, Deacon Andy Saunders discusses with Deacon Ray Duplechain, Director of the Diaconate for the Archdiocese of New Orleans the Identity of the Deacon. Society often identifies deacons by what we do and our functions. But Deacon Ray explains it is not in the \u201cdoing\u201d but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2133,"featured_media":969,"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":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}