8 new permanent deacons ordained
8 new permanent deacons ordained in LA with a ‘seal on your heart’
The stranger in the donut shop knew Renee Sosa was a deacon, confident of it. She said it with conviction in her voice.
“You are a deacon,” she told him in Spanish.
The only problem was, he wasn’t a deacon. Hadn’t even considered it. Didn’t even really know what a deacon was. But he and his wife, Cynthia, had become so immersed in different ministries at St. John Vianney Church in Hacienda Heights that even his father, aunts, and yes, strangers, already saw him as one.
So what others already sensed came true on June 8, when Sosa and seven other men, joined by their wives, were ordained as permanent deacons at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The group joins the already more than 400 permanent deacons serving across the archdiocese’s five pastoral regions.