{"id":978,"date":"2026-01-27T17:50:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/?p=978"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:53:59","slug":"the-joy-of-diaconal-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/2026\/01\/27\/the-joy-of-diaconal-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Diaconal Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nIn part 4 of the video series on the diaconate,\u00a0 Deacon Andy Saunders and Deacon Ray Duplechain continue their discussion emphasizing the joy of men during formation in relationship to God and others and the joy of diaconal ministry.<\/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<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1zUv4pfOGjE&amp;list=PLppHCkhATHuUdKqIaXSLJhpXIKa0-pcN7&amp;index=2\">View part 3: The Identity of the Deacon<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In part 4 of the video series on the diaconate,\u00a0 Deacon Andy Saunders and Deacon Ray Duplechain continue their discussion emphasizing the joy of men during formation in relationship to God and others and the joy of diaconal ministry. The series was filmed in New Orleans at the Old Ursuline Convent, the National World War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2133,"featured_media":980,"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-978","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\/978","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=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}