--- title: Essays – Church Life Journal | holy orders description: holy orders | --- Search [![churchlife](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Churchlife_Aug2016_Theme/Images/church-life-journal-white-horizontal-1.png)](http://churchlife.nd.edu/) - [Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays) - [Articles](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles) - [Blog](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post) - [Contributors](http://churchlife.nd.edu/contributors/) All posts filed under: ESSAYS [![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Keating-1-crop.jpg)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/06/06/the-deacon-and-the-family-mercys-presence) ## [The Deacon and the Family: Mercy's Presence](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/06/06/the-deacon-and-the-family-mercys-presence) Published by [James Keating](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/james-keating) > *Through Baptism, the Family of the Church is missionary by nature and increases her faith in the act of sharing that faith with others, above all, with her children. The very act of living a life of communion as a family is the primary form of proclamation. In fact, evangelization begins in the family, which transmits corporeal as well as spiritual life. . . . The family is thus an agent of pasto...* Share - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [June 06, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/06/06/the-deacon-and-the-family-mercys-presence) [Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/essays) / [Practice](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/practice) / [holy orders](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/holy-orders) / [jameskeating](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/jameskeating) / [deacon formation](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/deacon-formation) / [deacons](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/deacons) / [families](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/families) [![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Heintz-1.jpg)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/06/02/practices-of-priesthood) ## [Practices of Priesthood](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/06/02/practices-of-priesthood) Published by [Msgr. Michael Heintz](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/msgr-michael-heintz) I have been quite fortunate in my twenty-three years of priesthood to have known some superb role models of priestly life and sacerdotal zeal; unsurprisingly, most of them are older than I am, but in fact a few of them are younger. And the lessons I have learned from them in terms of pastoral fruitfulness can, I think, be boiled down to four simple—stunningly simple—principles. Now I say “fruitful... 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