{"id":3931,"date":"2011-05-26T17:23:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T21:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:43:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:43:54","slug":"quote-of-the-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/05\/quote-of-the-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u201cOur call is truly to service of God\u2019s people, and our presence on the altar represents the service of the whole parish community. We have one foot on the altar and one in the pew\u2026We [deacons] have this special ability to talk about the Gospel from the view of parents, husbands, managers, home-buyers and workers out in the community. It\u2019s humbling and it\u2019s a privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014 James O\u2019Rourke, set to be ordained\u00a0a deacon this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Read more of his story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evangelist.org\/archive\/htm2011\/0526deacons.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>here.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur call is truly to service of God\u2019s people, and our presence on the altar represents the service of the whole parish community. 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