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ABBREVIATIONS

NCCB, Permanent Deacons in the United States: Guidelines on Their For mation and Ministry, 1984 Revision (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1985) PDO : St. John Paul II, The Permanent Deacon’s Ordination , Address to the Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for the Clergy (November 30, 1995) PDV : St. John Paul II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation IWill Give You Shepherds ( Pastores Dabo Vobis ) (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1992) RM : St. John Paul II, Encyclical On the Permanent Validity of the Church’s Missionary Mandate ( Redemptoris Missio ) (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1990) SC : Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy ( Sacro sanctum Concilium ). In Vatican Council II:Vol. 1: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents , ed. Austin Flannery (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1996) STVI : Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy and Bishops’ Committee on the Permanent Diaconate, NCCB, The Deacon: Minister of Word and Sacrament, Study TextVI (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1979)

USCCB : United States Conference of Catholic Bishops