The Living Icon

A deacon is configured as a living icon of Christ the servant…

# 3. In its renewal the Order of Deacons is permanently restored as “a living icon of Christ the Servant within the Church.”
#147. The ministry of charity is “most characteristic of the deacon.” “In fact, with sacred ordination, [the deacon] is constituted a living icon of Christ the servant within the Church.”

NATIONAL DIRECTORY FOR THE FORMATION, MINISTRY, AND LIFE OF PERMANENT DEACONS IN THE UNITED STATES

This blog is organized into three categories:  Liturgia – Verbum – Caritas