
Diaconate Formation

"Do you realize what I have done for you?" You call me 'teacher' and 'master,' and rightly so, for indeed I am. If, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. (John 13:12-16)
"Deacons who are ministers of the mysteries of Jesus ... are not mere servants with food and drink, but emissaries of God's Church. (From the letter of St. Ignatius of Antiock to the Trallians.)"