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Formation

Formation | Legacy Posts

Parish Receptions – Among So Many Friends

ByDeaconDance March 15, 2017October 14, 2024

I love my parish. No, you don’t understand, I love my parish. These people are the best friends I have. I don’t really have many friends outside of the Church, and my parish holds most of these people. I’m the guy who loves to hang out at RCIA and Catechism classes just to be around. I’m a…

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My First Homily!
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My First Homily!

ByDeaconDance March 14, 2017October 14, 2024

My pastor scheduled me to preach my very first weekend as a deacon, to go along with a celebration of my ordination. I worked on my first homily all summer long. I really wanted to get it all right, I wanted to start off good. It was a finely crafted work of art. I then…

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Ordination! Two Impressions…

ByDeaconDance March 12, 2017October 14, 2024

Satan tried to bring me down. I know it was him, I felt it. I was in the hotel room getting ready, and I had a brand new alb my beloved priest had bought for me. It was beautiful: Long, White, Clean, Crisp, …just beautiful. I had never worn it, and it was wrinkled. We…

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Rite of Candidacy
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Rite of Candidacy

ByDeaconDance March 10, 2017October 14, 2024

Or is it the Rite of Confusion? The main problem we had was not the Rite itself, that is pretty straightforward. The Rite of Candidacy is simply the Church calling you forward as a candidate for Holy Orders. It would seem to be so simple, right? Alas, no! The problem is not what the Rite…

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Rite of Acolyte – A Visual Change

ByDeaconDance October 29, 2016October 14, 2024

I hate to start off boring, but this will make no sense if you don’t know what an acolyte is, or what an acolyte does. As such, let me give you a quick run down.The Rite of Institution to Acolyte is usually held in the cathedral with the bishop. This is not to be confused with…

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Ordination Date Has Been Set!

ByDeaconDance June 6, 2016October 14, 2024

Years have gone by. Five and a half of them. Children and grandchildren have been born, parents and grandparents have passed on. This formation process has been full of up and downs, and classes that will never end. Except that the classes HAVE ended. I have reached the end of this road, and beyond it…

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Genesis is Only the Beginning

ByDeaconDance March 21, 2012October 14, 2024

So in our deacon formation classes, we have a bit of an argument, and I thought it would be fun to air our dirty laundry all over the internet. Okay, so it’s not all that, but we do get rather excited over this topic. Is the creation account in Genesis historically accurate, or is it…

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