{"id":18241,"date":"2024-05-01T17:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T21:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discerningdeacons.org\/?post_type=witness&p=18241"},"modified":"2024-05-01T17:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T21:29:45","slug":"elizabeth-young-r-s-m","status":"publish","type":"witness","link":"https:\/\/discerningdeacons.org\/es\/witness\/elizabeth-young-r-s-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Young, R.S.M."},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am privileged to be part of a much bigger discernment happening in our Church at the moment. We are all listening to the Spirit, to enable each other to follow Jesus together as a welcoming, diverse community. I have experienced the value of good, inspiring leadership and feel like I have been discerning around church ministry for almost all my life. As religious Sisters, we are called to the margins, where people are hungry for spiritual nourishment. And somehow, I have been blessed to end up in roles that appear very similar to the diaconate, working for dioceses in chaplaincy and remote ministries. For the past 3 years I have also been interviewing many deacons and those in similar ministries for the Liturgy on the Margins blog<\/a>. It has given me a great appreciation of the diaconate, with all of its challenges and joys, but especially the potential of deacons to make a difference in the most significant times of people’s lives.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“As religious Sisters, we are called to the margins, where people are hungry for spiritual nourishment. And somehow, I have been blessed to end up in roles that appear very similar to the diaconate, working for dioceses in chaplaincy and remote ministries. For the past 3 years I have also been interviewing many deacons and those in similar ministries for the Liturgy on the Margins blog. It has given me a great appreciation of the diaconate, with all of its challenges and joys, but especially the potential of deacons to make a difference in the most significant times of people’s lives.”<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":18242,"template":"","witness-tag":[],"class_list":["post-18241","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