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My Favorite Deacon and Me
Thank you for visiting my humble little piece of blog real estate. It is my intention to provide a place for discussing the Catholic faith.
I am a fairly new Deacon’s wife. My husband was ordained five years ago. We have been married 39 years, but being a lay person married to a member of the clergy is a whole new learning experience. It is quite an adventure.
The RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) and adult faith formation are my main ministries in the Church. RCIA is the process that adults who are considering becoming Catholic enter into. This blog is an extension of those ministries.
I hope that this blog will be a safe place for non Catholics, Catholics, atheists, agnostics and anyone with honest questions or opinions. Comments are welcome as long as they are respectful and charitable.
Please be aware that I try to always “think with the mind of the Church”. I am simply Catholic.
Emails will be read and answered.
God Bless,
Susan Kehoe
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
Hello Susan,
God willing my husband will be ordained a Deacon in June. He and I are co-coordinators of our parish RCIA.
Hi Mary,
I will keep you and your husband in my prayers.
God Bless
Hello Mrs. Susan:
Your blog is just wonderful. Your comment, “Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.” is the best! is it yours?
Please check out mine, it is a bit differant, a Catholic, spiritual, recovery thought based blog. It is low key on theology just because my gift is perhaps reaching those agnostic types that need baby steps in belief. Please consider putting me on your blog roll or the Deacon’s if he finds time to review it.
Pax,
Dave-Dallas, TX St. Thomas Aquinas Parish
Hi Dave,
I am a bit late, heh, in responding as I haven’t checked out this page in a while. I thought that I would get an alert when there were comments, but I did not. Any way, the quote “Be kind… is attributed to Plato.
Thank you for your kind words. I will check out your blog.
God bless,
Susan
Good morning Susan!
My husband has sent me the link to your blog & I have subscribed. I too keep a blog of my journey but so far I really haven’t had much to contribute. Scott has applied to the diaconate program & we are to undergo the psychological testing next month. His acceptance into the program is conditional to both of us “passing the test”.
I have to admit that I sort of gritted my teeth when I found your blog. Here I am trying to “wean” myself from reading blogs, “Facebooking” & spending way to much time with a keyboard under my fingers instead of a good book or meditating with my bible… then I find you, and now I’ll have to stick around a bit more!
I love the way you write… your story about your dimming halo really made me smile!
God Bless,
Christine
Christine,
A belated thank you! I thought that I would get an alert when there were comments on this page. But alas I did not, and I haven’ t checked out this page.
I hope that your husband was accepted into formation. If you are still around these parts, please let me know. Feel free to email me.
God Bless,
Susan
Susan, my husband has now been in the program since October of last year… one week-end class a month for the next 4 years or so. It’s a long journey but a very beautiful & enriching one.
I get your posts in my email & have been keeping up with you for a while… I even emailed you a while back because you hadn’t posted in so long that I was “worried” about you!
God bless you and your favorite Deacon!
Christine
http://www.deaconswife.com (was to much work to change it to “aspirantswife.com”!
Hi Christine,
I will be praying for you and your husband! Thank you for your support.
God Bless,
Susan
Susan, I found your site by accident and was delighted. My husband is in formation for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati- he (we) are at the half way mark with ordination in 2013. How supportive to have this site. I also found Christine’s site and had a few chuckles at what she and her candidate are experiencing now. Keep us in your prayers as we will for you. Mary and Ralph gutman
Thank you! I will keep you in my prayers.
God bless,
Susan
Hello. I found your blog by accident, but I guess with God there are only “happy accidents”. My husband is in the final phase of formation. We petitioned our bishop for ordination on Aug. 9th. God willing with the bishop’s approval, my husband will be ordained November 10, 2012. Its been a very long 5years. Lots of sacrifices but well worth it. My husband and I are not new to ministry. We started as teenagers being in youth group and than becoming leaders. We continued after being married. Years later a parish hired us both for youth ministry. Then our pastor saw my gifts elsewhere and placed me in charge of Religious Ed, RCIA, quinceaneras and Generations of Faith. I did this for 8 years. I stepped down to allow my husband the time he needed to study for the diaconate. I have inquired about becoming a NFP instructor and hope to be certified soon. We will be married 21 years this October. Thank you for allowing me to share a little of our journey.
God Bless,
Marivel