{"id":18138,"date":"2024-04-04T12:59:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T16:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discerningdeacons.org\/?post_type=witness&p=18138"},"modified":"2024-04-04T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:00:14","slug":"deacon-bill-zapcic","status":"publish","type":"witness","link":"https:\/\/discerningdeacons.org\/es\/witness\/deacon-bill-zapcic\/","title":{"rendered":"Deacon Bill Zapcic"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Only women understand all the aspects of being part of the majority of humankind. That perspective is critically needed to fully serve God and God’s people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am the oldest of six sons, and growing up without sisters, I had no one besides my mom to give the girl\u2019s or woman\u2019s perspective on \u2026 anything. As I grew and developed friendships with women, especially one who often twitted me, \u201cYou\u2019re not thinking like a girl about this,\u201d I came to realize that I know too little about too many people, secularly as well as spiritually and religiously.<\/span><\/p>\n

If there were women deacons in my parish, lay women would relate in a deep and meaningful way to deacons who look, act, speak and feel more like themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s been too long since the restoration of the permanent diaconate for the ministry to be awash in patriarchal clericalism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My call to the diaconate is proof that God has a wild sense of humor. Though I am an unlikely choice to wear the alb and stole, I have a deep commitment to service in Christ’s name and I try to live it every day. Any need that arises, I am ready to shoulder it, though some needs of our sisters and brothers would be well- or better-served by a woman\u2019s different compassion.”<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“If there were women deacons in my parish, lay women would relate in a deep and meaningful way to deacons who look, act, speak and feel more like themselves…Though I am an unlikely choice to wear the alb and stole, I have a deep commitment to service in Christ’s name and I try to live it every day. Any need that arises, I am ready to shoulder it, though some needs of our sisters and brothers would be well- or better-served by a woman\u2019s different compassion.”<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":18139,"template":"","witness-tag":[],"class_list":["post-18138","witness","type-witness","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t