{"id":11664,"date":"2012-03-15T07:03:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=11664"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:24:16","slug":"diocese-in-india-to-get-its-first-permanent-deacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2012\/03\/diocese-in-india-to-get-its-first-permanent-deacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese in India to get its first permanent deacon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This is exciting news \u2014 though I\u2019m less excited about the way this article<\/a><\/strong> misrepresents the diaconate and seems to confuse deacons with lay people.<\/p>\n

Details:<\/p>\n

The Poona diocese will soon have a married deacon to conduct baptisms, marriages, funerals and even give sermons. Roy D\u2019 Monte, 54 \u2014 an administrator at Loyola High School \u2014 will be ordained as a married deacon on April 23, after which he will acquire the right to celebrate religious functions and administer sacraments, except for Mass and confession.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The move is hailed as unique in the Catholic Church, which shows how the lay people have a rightful place in the life of the church. At present, there are 10 married deacons in the country \u2014 all in the Mumbai archdiocese.<\/p>\n

Poona Bishop Rt Rev Thomas Dabre says there is a need for priests in the diocese that spans across Pune, Satara, Solapur, Sangli, Kolhapur, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg. \u201cThere is enthusiasm and willingness among married people in the church to take on responsibilities and the Vatican too has allowed the ordination of permanent married deacons. However, we have not accepted all applications and do not allow anybody to become a married deacon. There are several criteria that have to be met with.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, D\u2019Monte seems to have fulfilled them. \u201cI fell in love with God several years ago and have been involved in a variety of activities at Our Lady Consoler of the Afflicted Church at Pimpri,\u201d he told The Indian Express.<\/p>\n

He has a supportive family in wife Juliet, who has been a Sunday school moderator in the church, and daughters Renita and Ramona who are also actively involved in various youth activities of the church. He had, in fact, sent his application first in 1993 to the then Poona Bishop, Valerian D\u2019Souza . \u201cThere were several criteria that I had to fulfill like completing studies in theology and philosophy from Dnyandeep Vidyapeeth at Ramwadi.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mumbai Archdiocese spokesperson Fr Anthony Charanghat says the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of India had sanctioned the ordination of married deacons in 1983. The Mumbai Archdiocese was the first to exercise it by ordaining as many as 10 married deacons since 2006.<\/p>\n

Bishop Dabre says, \u201cThere is sacrifice involved here specially as he is a married man. For a year, D\u2019Monte was sent to different parishes and we wanted to gauge whether people would accept him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ordination of permanent married deacons brings back an old sacrament that had fallen into disuse,\u201d says Fr Malcolm Sequeira, parish priest at St Patrick\u2019s Cathedral. \u201cMarried deacons have always been part of the Church\u2019s tradition, though at some points in its history their visibility declined. There has also been a shortage of priests and we need lay people to assist us. There is a lot of work to be done.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is exciting news \u2014 though I\u2019m less excited about the way this article misrepresents the diaconate and seems to confuse deacons with lay people. Details: The Poona diocese will soon have a married deacon to conduct baptisms, marriages, funerals and even give sermons. 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