Superior Court of Guam Judge John Terlaje will be ordained as the island's newest permanent deacon at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 1 in the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica in Hagåtña.

The present order may be used by a priest or deacon. It may also be used by a lay person, who follows the rites and prayers designated for a lay minister. While maintaining the structure and chief ...

Deacons and lectors can give validly and licitly only those blessings expressly allowed by law. 2. Both constitutive and invocative blessings are invalid if the forms prescribed by the Church are ...

To Catholics, lying prostrate symbolizes the unworthiness for the office of deacon and the ... vested Michael with his stole and dalmatic, symbols of Michael's new role in the church.