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‘Be seen in your neighborhood protecting your children’

The Black Catholic Deacons of the Archdiocese of Chicago hosted their 11th annual sunrise service Aug. 7 to pray for the protection of the community’s children before the school year starts.

Welcome our new deacons

Twenty-two permanent and transitional deacons were ordained during two Masses on May 8 at Holy Name Cathedral, 735 N. State St., Chicago. Cardinal Cupich celebrated the morning ordination and Bishop Robert Casey, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Chicago, presided over the afternoon Mass.

Pandemic strains deacons’ work with disaster victims

When natural disasters strike across the country, a group of local deacons called Hope’s on the Way aid the victims by filling and shipping 5-gallon plastic buckets with much-needed cleaning supplies to the area.

Deacons hold 10th sunrise service praying for an end to violence

For the last 10 years, the Black deacons of Chicago have led sunrise services near around the start of the school year to pray for an end to gun violence in the city. They gathered again and continued praying on Sept. 12, this time not on Oakwood Beach but in the parking lot of St. Katharine Drexel Church, 9015 S. Harper Ave., because of social distancing.

New deacons to be ordained for archdiocese

Cardinal Cupich will ordain 27 men as permanent deacons to serve in the Archdiocese of Chicago in two Masses on Sept. 26 at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel, 7740 S. Western Ave. Two men were ordained in August.

Meet the 2019 deacon class

Cardinal Cupich ordained 23 deacons on May 11. The group includes 16 permanent deacons who completed four years of formation. Married men may be ordained permanent deacons; single men who become permanent deacons must make a commitment to celibacy. Permanent deacons often work outside the church in addition to their diaconal ministry.

Couple delivers Christmas toys to kids in Guatemala

For the past 10 years, Deacon Freddie Palacios and his wife, Zoila, have been putting smiles on the faces of poor children living in their native Guatemala by delivering wrapped toys for Christmas.

Deacons collecting cleaning supplies for Florence recovery

When natural disasters strike around the country a group of “second responders” mobilizes in the Archdiocese of Chicago, sending out utility buckets filled with much-needed cleaning supplies to affected areas.

Black deacons hold annual Mass for peace

Participants pray to end violence and promote peace during the ninth annual Sunrise Prayer Service and Mass at Oakwood/41st Street Beach, 4100 S. Lake Shore Drive, on Aug. 25.

Evangelizing, caring for others at core of deacons’ vocation, nuncio says

The core vocational work of permanent deacons is to evangelize and care for others, not to perform office duties, the apostolic nuncio to the United States said July 22 to more than 1,300 deacons attending the 2018 National Diaconate Congress in New Orleans. In his post-Communion remarks at the opening Mass of the five-day gathering, Archbishop Christophe Pierre noted that St. John Paul II had declared that the “service of diaconal ministry finds its identity in evangelization.”
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