Chifari John's article, entitled from following the diaconate in the social ( The Diaconate in Italy, No. 163), leads me to one dimension of the deacons who knows " leave the church "and be light and salt to a thirsty humanity size high, full of hope that never disappoints.
It will report some excerpts, particularly significant to me for service that, along with many other deacons, are called. The first reference, although towards the end of the article, is a kind of key to understanding the rest.
"Permanent deacons, by virtue of the sacrament of Holy Orders, called and chosen among the baptized, to become witnesses and trainers, evangelization of culture, because they live in the world with the seal of the sacred character, perhaps more than Bishops and priests are called to be builders of bridges, wise and learned the things of God, witnesses of the bond and love between God, history and the world. They between heaven and earth, keeping our eyes fixed on Christ (cf. Heb 12.2) and the things above (cf. Col 3:1-2), they can fertilize the story, ferment the company through a training contribution for the growth of the baptized Christian, and witnesses, with the example of their lives. They proclaim that Christ is the servant, the icon that best reflects the identity of the Christ "Chief", when asked the witness and relied on for the three degrees of holy orders, really conformed to the Lord. " 'Shine ( Mt 5.16) without appearing, to taste ( Mt 5:13) to enhance, testify to renew, sometimes "root out and destroy" but especially "build and to plant" (Jer 1.10) and then keep and give to God in love, a legacy here that the Christian and ordained ministers, they receive from writing, power in the Eucharist, the fraternity experience, to strengthen the memory of those who have preceded us on the path of holiness open to the prophecy of God for man today.
be disciples of Christ today as at the time of the first Christians, is a sign that visibility presence to a call to ferment in the world the seed of Christ, telling "things of the Spirit of God" (1 Cor 2.14) does not sublime and persuasive words, but through the word of the cross (1 Cor 1.18), apparent folly to confound the wise, weakness clothed with power and wisdom of God, boast in the Lord (1 Cor 1.31) which reduces to nothing things that are ( 1 Cor 1:28). "
"Living as risen with Christ, means to live their occupations, work, family, ministry, with the style of the Risen One. (...) To live in the social world and think about an operational perspective in the political sphere, it is then, more than a challenge or mission, a diaconate. It is, in other words, the style of "natural" who, having met Christ, it becomes a "friend" and the instrument, the auctioneer announces media and his will of salvation, peace and redemption. "
"A diaconia whether it will mediate the encounter with Christ, announce the news of his resurrection, to serve others in charity, should spring from discipleship, the following of Christ. That means, in fact, serve Jesus (cf. Mk 1,23.31, 15.41)? As a dialectic between service and discipleship (cf. Jn 12:26)?
drink his cup, receiving his baptism (cf. Mk 10.39 to 40) refers to a sequence in which service, shares and participates in the redemptive passion of Jesus, this is the glory of those who wish to serve, who listens to His words, for that die to themselves, to deny his own life (cf. Mt 16:24), in that spiritual martyrdom, honored by the Father. (...)
In Christ, perform a service and giving life, is one with the salvation and redemption of man and the world, while the Christian is to accept the conversion as a process of assimilation and conformation (cf. John 13.14 to 17).
"A diaconia policy, which flows from the diaconate of Christ, combining service and discipleship, conversion and life, service to others live in love in the knowledge of who knows he is useless tool (cf. Lk 17.5 -10) through which God continues to fertilize the folds of history. "
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