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Vatican City, Oct 4, 2012 \/ 04:25 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Thirty-three new deacons from Rome\u2019s North American College were ordained Oct. 4 at a ceremony in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, bringing both excitement and joy to the men.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThis is really a wonderful day for the Church and certainly for the College, too, and for myself,\u201d said college rector, Monsignor James F. Checchio in remarks to CNA after the ordinations.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe men who laid down their lives in service of the Church today are good men, men who have prepared themselves well by coming to know Christ well and serving him and his people,\u201d Msgr. Checchio added.<\/p>\n

\tThe nearly three-hour ceremony at the basilica\u2019s Altar of the Chair was presided over by Archbishop John F. Myers of Newark. The ordinations coincided with the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, who was ordained deacon but never a priest. All but one of the deacons comes from an American diocese, while another ordinand hails from the Archdiocese of Sydney in Australia.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cOverjoyed,\u201d was the one word Deacon Colin Wen of the Diocese of Sacramento used to describe the whole occasion.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI think what struck me most was laying out prostrate,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s just a great symbolism there of giving your life over, a real sense of no longer leading your own life but really letting God lead \u2013 in that sense of just putting it all before the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tFollowing the ceremony, the deacons processed in their new vestments to a quiet corner of the St. Peter\u2019s where they hugged and high-fived each other amid an air of relief and delight.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI\u2019m overjoyed, excited and overwhelmed,\u201d said Deacon Jun Hee Lee of the Diocese of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe only thing I could think about during the service was \u2018amen,\u2019 that word that just kept coming to me over and over again, just \u2018amen,\u2019 \u2018let it be.\u2019\u201d He believes the hallmark of a good deacon can be summed up in one word \u2013 service.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cNot out of pride. Not to gain something, of course. But really service out of love and only love,\u201d said Deacon Lee.<\/p>\n

\tThe 33 new deacons were ordained only days before the launch of the Church\u2019s Year of Faith and the opening of the Synod of Bishops in Rome, which will chart a \u201cnew evangelization\u201d of traditionally Christian countries like the United States.<\/p>\n

\tDeacon Nicholas Nelson of the Diocese of Duluth said that when he first considered entering the Catholic priesthood he thought, \u2018hey, if I want to be a priest then I want to do it all the way, be really radical and be a missionary priest.\u2019<\/p>\n

\tBut now he sees things differently.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI\u2019ve realized that people in my hometown of Duluth need Christ and need the Gospel just as much as people in Africa or the jungles of the Amazon.\u201d Along with his 32 other classmates, he is now excited by the prospect of his priestly ordination in the coming months.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAs a man you want to do something great with your life and that\u2019s what I look forward to doing. I really couldn\u2019t imagine doing anything else,\u201d Deacon Nelson said.<\/p>\n

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