{"id":6804,"date":"2016-11-07T08:14:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T22:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgs.org.au\/?p=6804"},"modified":"2016-11-07T08:15:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T22:15:55","slug":"deacon-comes-home-for-ordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgs.org.au\/deacon-comes-home-for-ordination\/","title":{"rendered":"Deacon comes home for Ordination"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Archbishop Christopher Prowse ordains Joshua Scott to the diaconate at St Mary\u2019s Young.<\/p><\/div>\n

By William Chow <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On Saturday 22 October 2016, the Feast of St. John Paul II, Joshua J.R. Scott was ordained a Deacon for the Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn by The Most Reverend Gerard Christopher Prowse, DD, STD in St. Mary\u2019s Church, Young, New South Wales, Australia.\u00a0 Also con-celebrating was the Most. Reverend Richard Umbers, Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney.\u00a0 The celebration was a joyous occasion for Deacon Scott and all the community. \u00a0A large contingent of Deacon Scott\u2019s brother seminarians, brother deacons, seminary staff, and priests from around the Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn and surrounding dioceses were too in attendance.\u00a0 As well as a large number of friends, parishioners, and Deacons Scott\u2019s family were also in attendance.<\/p>\n

Deacons serve in the community in diverse ways. In our parishes, they teach the faith and assist with sacraments, such as performing baptisms and witnessing marriages. Deacons also visit the imprisoned, comfort the dying, and care for those on the fringes of society.<\/p>\n

In his homily Archbishop Prowse praised Deacon Scott\u2019s \u201ckerygmatic dimension\u201d describing him as \u201cpeople centred\u201d and \u201ca great social networker\u201d, during the ceremony The Archbishop also alluded to the fact Deacon Scott – a convert to the faith, had received four of the seven Sacraments from Fr Richard Thompson, the former parish priest of Young.<\/p>\n

Please continue to pray for Deacon Scott, and his preparation for the priesthood.\u00a0 May, God accompany our new Deacon as he begins his new diaconate service.<\/p>\n

After the Eucharistic celebration, the faithful gathered in the parish hall for refreshments with the new Deacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By William Chow On Saturday 22 October 2016, the Feast of St. John Paul II, Joshua J.R. Scott was ordained a Deacon for the Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn by The Most Reverend Gerard Christopher Prowse, DD, STD in St. Mary\u2019s Church, Young, New South Wales, Australia.\u00a0 Also con-celebrating was the Most. Reverend Richard Umbers, Auxiliary Bishop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgs.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgs.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgs.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgs.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgs.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sgs.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6806,"href":"https:\/\/sgs.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions\/6806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgs.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgs.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgs.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}