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Diaconate Programs & Formation:

Discernment

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VIDEOS

Intro to the Diaconate
The Diocese of San Joaquin has created a 35 minute video on the Diaconate. Featuring interviews with deacons, postulants and their bishop. A helpful resource for new formation classes. Watch.

Spiritual Direction

• For Postulants, by Rod Dugliss
  
• That Deacon on YouTube - from Deacon Anthony Keller, Part 1, Part 2

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REFLECTIONS

Late in life Changes: Discernment & Ordination in his '70s
Robert Runkle, Nov. 2017. Read.

Beyond Ourselves: What Deacons Teach Us
Diocese of Atlanta, Pathways Magazine, 2011. Issue devoted to Deacons. Download.

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