{"id":19548,"date":"2013-01-04T10:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T15:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=19548"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:01:07","slug":"he-felt-led-by-god-to-the-diaconate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/01\/he-felt-led-by-god-to-the-diaconate\/","title":{"rendered":"“He felt led by God to the diaconate”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

From Philadelphia comes this remembrance<\/a><\/strong> of a deacon who died just after Christmas:<\/p>\n

\n Paul Michael Parchinski was a chemical engineer who over a 34-year career worked his way up the echelons of the petroleum industry, retiring from Citgo in 2001 as senior environmental adviser.\"\"<\/a>\u00a0It was then that he decided to take a job with an employer even mightier than the oil giants.<\/p>\n

Mr. Parchinski became Deacon Parchinski, serving his home parish, Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church in Woodbury.<\/p>\n

Instead of hazmat emergencies and executive meetings, he was called to assist priests; perform weddings, baptisms, and funerals; tend to the sick; and console the bereft.<\/p>\n

Little more than a week ago, he made his usual rounds of the elderly and the ill. The next day he himself was a patient at Underwood-Memorial Hospital. Mr. Parchinski, 70, of West Deptford, died there of cardiac arrest on Saturday, Dec. 29.<\/p>\n

Although long a religious man and a Eucharistic minister, Mr. Parchinski was caught off-guard when a priest approached him a dozen years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, almost prophetically, \u2018You\u2019re going to be a deacon,\u2019 \u201d recalled Patricia, his wife of 21 years.<\/p>\n

Already in poor health \u2013 heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and a quadruple bypass in his not-distant past \u2013 Mr. Parchinski at first thought the priest\u2019s premonition was \u201coff the wall,\u201d his wife recalled.<\/p>\n

Still, \u201che felt led \u2013 led by God to the diaconate.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it all.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him \u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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