The Diaconate and Marriage

Accepting the invitation to enter holy orders in cooperation with the vital and generous consent of one's spouse is truly a blessing and a challenge for spousal union. Receiving diaconal grace into an already established sacramental marriage profoundly orients the witness of the deacon and his wife to the depths of God's own identity as an eternal circulation of love.

Married deacons have a unique opportunity to serve the Church through the graces of their dual vocation to marriage and holy...