Guestbook - 1999
Your site is very informative and exciting. By chance, will you do a section on ritual and rubrics pertaining to the transitional and permanent diaconate? John Pat
(Yes, when I get a moment! Would you like to contribute John? - Webmaster.)
I accidentally stumbled onto your site, and it is simply wonderful! It has one of the most complete collections of Diaconate writings I've seen. I plan on using this site very often, thank you.
Grace and Peace, Deacon Joseph Braddock Diocese of Jefferson City.
I just read though the material of your website and found it both informative and inspiring. I am considering joining the diaconate.
Your articles were very helpful in answering my many questions and also very encouraging.
I would welcome any suggestions that you may offer. May God bless you.
Dr. James J. Brzycki
In error some entries in this guest book were deleted when creating the Deacons Net Discussion Forum at http://forum.deacons.net/ Apologies to those whose messages were lost. (The forum is available by link from the home page of this site).
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I found your site quite by accident, and I think it's wonderful. My husband is in his second year of formation for the Permanent Deaconate. God willing, he will be ordained in June of 2000. I am interested in corresponding with wives of deacons or wives of those in formation.
Great site. I will pass on to my classmates. Eight of us were ordained on February 6, 1999 for the Diocese of Covington. Steve Durkee
Good sight for Deacons. I will add a link from my web page at http://www.cyberus.ca/~jkennedy/
God Bless,
Deacon John
Your site looks great and thanks for the link to my own page!
Peace!
Deacon Joe Seaman Diocese of Trenton, NJ
Hi Shane, Thank You for sending a link to your web site. I would appreciate it if you would add mine to yours. http://home.communique.net/~deaconb/index.htm God Bless you in your formation. You will see on my web site under deacons your site is listed. Peace and joy of the Lord!
Great start. Hopefully it will be used as you intend.
hi, nice to see your site. always looking for a good Catholic site. my site is http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb176861 (natural family planning discussion board)
Mary :-)
A nicely done site. Very valuable resource to those of us ordained to the diaconate
Enjoyed the site and information. I'll be back in awhile to see what's new.
Den Gary (Eparchy of Edmonton)
I happened upon your website the other day, just by chance, and have enjoyed my visits, so far. Some really interesting pieces. Good luck. Keep up the good work. And expand for the service and the needs of the diaconate community. Deacon Paul Sullivan Diocese of Providence (R.I.)
I enjoy reading your page. I have been a deacon for a year now.
georgecritchell@sympatico,nf.ca
First time to your website. I'll be back. You've got lots of good and interesting stuff.
Keep up the good work.
Looks promising. Hope to check it out periodically. Lots of variation out there. Posted a message re: vestments.
The Holy Spirit strikes again - serendipity at its best. Its a joy to stumble on you and I look forward to coming back. I am new to the net but will just mark you as a favourite. I am a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Boston and am a full time prison chaplain. My wife Annie has been beside me all the way and we have 2 grown children. As they say, we have it all. Please keep us and my "parishoners" in your prayers. John McHugh 14A Beals Cove Road, Hingham, MA 02043
I believe it is johnmchu@cwix.com
I am glad we have a place to come to on the net. There are so many negative things associated with the web that it is great to find this positive one. I am ordained just over five years now for Scranton Diocese.
Thank you for a very informative site. It has been a very helpful site and a place to find the information to help someone in formation for the Permanent Diaconate.
CHRIST IS RISEN! May He bless the webmaster and all the viewers of this site! Peter, the first diaconal candidate in Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Poland (metropolitanate of Przemysl and Warsaw)
CHRIST HAS RISEN GREETINGS FROM A BROTHER IN CHRIST OF THE LUTHERAN TRADITION WHO IS COMPLETING HIS SECOND YEAR IN A DIACONIA COURSE OF STUDY. MY THIRD AND FOURTH YEARS OF STUDY WILL BE CONDUCTED AN EPISCOPAL CENTRE. I HAVE ENJOYED READING THE MATERIAL OFFERED AND WILL BE RETURNING FREQUENTLY. THAT WE ALL MAY BE ONE, LET US BLESS THE LORD
Interesting thus far. Do not have time to explore all aspects of this site. Deacon Jim Ashe
This web site is needed and I stop by every now and then to check out any updates. We need to be informed and encouraged by each other and pray for the sharing of the Gospel.
Congratulations fir your site ! it is very informative on the deacons in the Church ! Please visit our parish page on : http://www.angelfire.com/pq/damas/index.html Deacon Jacques Jarry from the Diocese of Montreal, Canada.
I found your site to be most rewarding. Deacon Joseph D. Long Camden Diocese, New Jersey
Great site... just found it ... it looks interesting and should be of great help.
Thanks. Deacon Paul Pettie Diocese of Steubenville, OH
What a great web page! The deacon stories section is really deacon biographies. Why not have deacons tell their ministry stories on a page here? Deacon Tim DeFrange, Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown Ohio.
What a super, great, website for all of us in the diaconate Community. It is just what we need. I look forward to the day when there might be a deacon chat room, maybe even a special chat room for deacon wives. I will get the word out to every deacon in the Diocese of Rockville Centre. May God, who has begun this good work in you, see it to fulfilment. Deacon Tony Cuseo. Deacon247@aol.com
I have been very appreciative of this web site , as it's very difficult to find similar information on this topic elsewhere. I hope that more deacons will log on and add to the discussion. Thank you. Steve Murphy
How come I am always last to find out about a deacon web site? This is great!
Deacon Chuck Hartman and Eutha Hartman
Have just found this site but it looks like it will be an excellent tool for our continued growth as "His servants". Good bless all of you. Deacon Don Burleson, Diocese of Austin, Texas (The "Great" Diocese of Central Texas).
Very nice web site. Extremely informative and helpful.
As I near ordination on June 5th of this year, I am always looking for resources to help in Diaconal ministry. I was glad to discover the Deacon Net. I look forward to visiting the site often as I enter my ministry as a Permanent Deacon. In Christ, Jim Paris
I didn't know this page existed. Thank God? Well, thank someone who had the sense to know that now and again a Deacon needs a place check in and make sure he's not alone in the world. This discovery was an internet blessing.
I am extremely pleased what this site offers. I am relatively to the site and I intend to do some exploring in the coming days and weeks.
Great place for resource material. Have linked this to my page. God bless. Deacon Frank Camacho - Diocese of Venice in Florida
A very enjoyable and informative site. With the Lord's blessing, I am 2 years from ordination (in a 5 year program in the San Diego Diocese). Dennie C. Nickell
I was just surfing and fell upon this site. Let me tell you this is a great site. It has everything that a Deacon would want to know about. By the way I am Deacon in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and I am going to let all my Brothers know about this site.
God Bless You Deacon Walt Fulmer
I commend you on an excellent site. Please keep up the good work.
Finally a place to go for information for those wishing to pursue the Permanent Diaconate or at least see if it's something they feel they are being called to. Thank you.
I have given your web address to all of our first class of deacon candidates. They will be ordained beginning in December of 1999. Keep up the good ministry and work. Father J Kelbel, D. Min.
A priest friend of mine shared the site with me. I have not yet read all of the articles. I have too much to do to read them all at once. I am in formation in Los Angeles, CA. We have a four year process and God willing we will be ordained in 2002 in our brand new cathedral. Saturday, June 12, 25 deacons will be ordained. We will then have 184 in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. That's a good start I guess. God bless you for your work on the site. Love and blessings, Ken
I am thinking of becoming involved in the process of training for the diaconate service. I will have to visit the site again when I have more time. After a few years as a Police Sergeant and spending time in the military, I wonder how my past experience would translate to church service...Jonathan
A lovely informative site. As one who continues to discern, the information and links provided here were immensely helpful. Continued blessings in your ministry. Jim Pinched, North Vancouver, BC Canada
Good job! Keep up the good work.
Peace
Very informative site on the diaconate. Deacon Jacques Jarry, Montreal, Canada
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/damas/index.html
Dear Brother Shane:
Thank you for this wonderful site and the plethora of information it contains. I am presently in my discernment stage with hopes of entering the Formation next September,2000. You invaluable information and insights will be of great assistance to both my wife and myself.
Again, thank you and God Bless....Stephen Palmer
Finally, a site for the permanent Diaconate! Thanks.
Well done
Enjoyed visiting your sight and using it to link to other sights. I'm anticipating ordination to the diaconate in May 2000, God willing, and have been inspired by the information on the diaconate on the net. God bless you in your work.
God is praised with your efforts to inform and educate God's people about the Diaconate. Keep up the good work God has called to you.
You are in my prayers daily!
God Bless.
Deacon George A. Catanzano, Jr.
Diocese of Des Moines Des Moines, Iowa
Delighted to find a well-designed and highly informative site for deacons. Keep up the good work.
Dcn. Tom Jewell Diocese of Rochester (NY)
Great web site ... will be entering second year of formation this September. Expect to be ordained in 2002. Diocese of Bridgeport, CT. Looking to e=mail other 2002 men in formation.
Thanks for a great site. This is wonderful. Keep up the good work.
I enjoy the forum and use many links. I have even made contacts with others through the net.
Thank you and God bless.
Grace and Peace be with you!
Enjoyed visiting your site. God Bless!
PEACE! Deacon Don
I think this is a great web site. It is very informative.
Browsing.
tj-pjhoulihan@indian-creek.net
First time to visit this site. I was ordained on Mother's Day last year to serve in the archdiocese of Newark, NJ. Hope to visit it more often. God bless. Deacon Leandro Centenera
Congratulations for your site. We [600 or so] deacons in the UK need to be informed and encouraged by our brother deacons.
I really like this web page. Thanks.
From one who wanted to become a perm. deacon. I really enjoyed the deacon net. Although I was not accepted into formation, I always work with, support and pray for all perm. deacons. I do stay very active in lay ministry. Please keep up the good work. your brother in Christ Dik Klepper
Praise God for your work!
My name is Greg Zoltowski. I am a deacon-in-training with the Albany Catholic Diocese. It's great to know this website exists. It is a helpful resource to our many questions.
My full time job is as an artist/art teacher at Siena College in Loudonville, NY. I am a tenured professor there.
Great page I ran cross it surfing the web. I didn't know there was anything on the net for Deacon. I like the page. God Bless, Regards, Deacon Frank Laugermann St. Benedict the Abbot Catholic Church Houston, Texas Diocese of Galveston-Houston
Excellent content. Of great assistance to Permanent Deacons
Interesting site with good links, enjoyed visiting it and will do so again.
Deacon Declan McConville, Poole, Dorset, England.
decandbel@mcconville46.freeserve.co.uk
Enjoyed visiting this informative site with good links and articles. Would like to see more articles on art of preaching and articles on diverse diaconal ministries. Will be back.
Deacon Declan McConville, Poole, Dorset, England.
decandbel@mcconville46.freeserve.co.uk
Looks like a great site packed with lots of information.
I found this web site to a very valuable source of information for deacons everywhere.
I am beginning the Diaconate Formation program in the Diocese of Richmond, VA. I will likely return to the forum section of this site frequently. This seems to be a great site and a good resource. Thanks for having it.
Great Site. Just starting on the road to the diaconate for the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia.
GREAT site!! enjoyed the Canon Law article!!
This is first time I have accessed this site. Find it very interesting & informative. Will return!!
As an ordained deacon in the Episcopal church I especially enjoyed reading The Leadership Role of Women in the Early Eastern Church.
I love this site. I am currently in formation for the archdiocese of Portland OR. I am very exited looking forward to my installation to the acolyte and Lector on the 23 rd of October. I am the only Hispanic candidate we have. This site is a very nice forum for Deacons and candidates. Thanks J.E.
Jespi84047
As I write this note, I am preparing my application for the Permanent Diaconate. As part of the application process I have used materials from this web site. Thanks. Ed
I love your forum. An opportunity for deacons to exchange ideas, challenges, and questions. Keep up the good work.
Deacon Charlie Dietz
I thoroughly enjoy your web site. As a candidate for the permanent diaconate program of the Diocese of Richmond, this is a great starting point for research. Pray for all of us as we start our 4 year journey to service.
This is my first visit to this site. It is exciting to have a place where deacons can come together to share ideas and support each other. I am Deacon Rom Mac Lellan St Mary's parish Barrie Ontario Canada. Currently I am on Sabbatical until Feb 2000 after 16 years of ministry. It is a little hard to adjust to the phone not ringing or the message machine being empty, but I'm slowly adjusting to it. Just asking for prayer and promising prayer for the diaconate community everywhere.
I like what I see; but I tried to order the Deacon Digest, and I couldn't enter anything in the for???
I was ordained 3 years ago this November.
Deacon William H. Phares, Sr. Diocese of Phoenix
A most informative web site. Thank You Terry Fleming
a very interesting site. thanks!
I am in the discernment period / process for the Permanate Deaconate. Your site has been informative and helpful.
I really enjoyed reading the forum but it seems that people have stopped posting to it. The last entry I see was back in mid-august unless I'm doing something wrong. Any thoughts on why things aren't more active. Also, when will you be printing some new articles. There haven't been new additions for some time.
A very useful tool which I have only just discovered. Rev. Richard Budgen Permanent Deacon Diocese of Portsmouth England
richard@rbudgen.freeserve.co.uk
My name is Jeff Toliver and I have just entered the first year of the deacon formation program in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Thank you for all of the great information. I will tell my brother candidates about your web site.
God bless
Jeff Toliver
After stumbling on your web site I was extremely surprised at the amount of excellent information on the and for the use of permanent deacons, what a great resource, I have been a Deacon in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Liverpool England, in the Parish of St Joseph for the past twelve years, and this is a resource I will share with my brother deacons at our next Quarterly day, God Bless keep up the good work Deacon John McClure
Very pleased to see this site. Hope more will find it....Very good. Hope to use it often Deacon John Sicilia St. Charles Parish Spokane, Washington. I am also the Director of Deacons for the Spokane Diocese.
A solid forum for this vital area. I will go through the site and really check it out. At present I am a sub deacon with the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia (Melbourne) and hopefully will be ordained to the permanent deacon state in about 12 moths time. We hope that this will lead to others doing the same thing, so I guess I am a pioneer in this area. This site will assist me in this process.
kostress@stmichaels.vic.edu.au
As a sub deacon in the Eastern rite, can anybody give me information on permanent deacons in the Eastern Churches ?
kostress@stmichaels.vic.edu.au
This looks like a great site for the permanent diaconate. Thanks.
Excellent site. Informative and enjoyable. How about a Deacon joke page. Does any one know any good Deacon jokes?
Deacon Declan McConville Plymouth Diocese, England
decandbel@mcconville46.freeserve.co.uk
Wonderful Site. As a candidate, I am using this site for reference's on my reflection papers.
A New Deacon-to-Deacon forum created! For further information go to the following page: http://www.byzcath.org./bboard/Forum1/HTML/000057.html Peter
Thanks for this site, valuable info here!!
Deacon Ed Campanella
Excellent Web Site. I've just gone through the rite of candidacy to the permanent deaconate program in the diocese of Fresno. Great information and resources.
Excellent Website! One of the few sites I've visited with an expansive mix of articles specifically addressing the permanent diaconate a unique ministry within the Church.
Keep up the great work!
Dear Fellow Deacons,
I am looking for Promotional vocations posters for the Diaconate, in order that we can go around the parishes to promote vocations to our order, can anyone help or advise me were I can get them, I would be grateful for your help,
Deacon John McClure St Josephs Penketh England
Deac.027-lay@talk21.com
I am an ordained deacon in the Baptist Church. This is an excellent web site. Through the work of all Christians like yourselves, the Lord can lead us to do the social and spiritual work required of us. Thanks for this web site. Keep up the good work. Thanks, Jim Smith
JUST FOUND THIS SITE ......FANTASTIC!! MY GOOD FRIEND BILL IS A DEACON IN A PARISH IN BRAMPTON ,ONTARIO ,CANADA. HE AND HIS WIFE HAVE ENRICHED THE LIVES OF MY SELF AND MY FAMILY SINCE WE MET 5 OR 6 YEARS AGO. HE HAS TOUCHED MANY PEOPLE AND HE BRINGS THE LIGHT OF GOD INTO ALL OUR LIVES........IF HE KNEW I WROTE THIS HE WOULD NOT BE HAPPY!!
I enjoyed finding this site. Best of Luck
I am very excited that I was able to locate this website. I am a third year Permanent Diaconate candidate and plan to visit this site often. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Michael Lemieux Diocese of Buffalo
I am glad I found a home page for deacons. my comment is you have a lot of information about diaconate deacons and laws that regulate the office of the diaconate. But so far I have not found a place with information about how we deacons celebrate the liturgy. when I got ordained 4 years ago we have a 2 sessions about the celebration of mass, the rest we learned on the fireline I really wish you guys can put something about Liturgical education it is very important for all of us, and the candidates. Bless you. Rev. deacon Gabriel Hernandez. P. S. The Spanish speaking community also need a lot of help in the subject too.
Congratulations!!!! Nice job on your web site. Keep up the good work. Deacon Don Battiston... Nantucket Island
I'm just now entering your website for the Diaconate....I was ordained 4/23/94 and have had 4 pastors since ordination!!!!! Is this a record or what???? It's great to have a site for the permanent diaconate...One of our pastors set up a website for the entire diocese w/links to just about anything a catholic would want to know...his site is: http://alapadre.net/popindex.htm#Top and is a great resource too.. I've gotten excellent "stuff" from the Vatican this way.... anyway, keep up the good work from your Alabama Deacon!! Rev Mr A Gordon Kenny, Deacon at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Mobile, Ala
I Thank God for : A) finally getting the hang of the internet B) finding this webpage C) the deaconate -- God Bless and keep up the good work Deacon Dave Reyes from Chicago
Brilliant site, wish I had found it earlier as I am writing a thesis on diaconal ministry. Lots of good information. Deacon Ronnie Aitchison MDO
I was disappointed that the deacon net page wasn't being used...seems it would be a great place for deacons to exchange views and ministries. Rev Mr A Gordon Kenny, Archdiocese of Mobile
To Whom It Blesses, I enjoyed the Deacon test and scored 10/10 and was pleasantly surprised. I am not a Deacon but have the strong desire and I feel calling for this ministry. I ask for your prayers for this choice.
Some good info. on this site
Great Site!! Congratulations. http://www.catolicos.org