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THE MINISTRY AND LIFE OF DEACONS

45 DMLPD, no. 43. See also nos. 25-27. 46 Congregation for the Clergy, The Priest and the Third Christian Millennium (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1999), introduction. 47 Congregation for the Clergy, Priest and the Third Christian Millennium , introduction. 48 DMLPD, no. 26. 49 RM, no. 2. 50 DMLPD, no. 12. 51 DMLPD, no. 12. 52 DMLPD, no. 78. 53 BNFPD, no. 11. 54 DMLPD, no. 50. 55 CIC, c. 276 §1. 56 Luis of Grenada, Pathways to Holiness , trans. and adapt. Jordan Aumann, OP (New York: Alba, 1998), 107. 57 See, for example, CIC, c. 276. 58 PDV, no. 30. 59 PDV, no. 30. 60 GS, no. 1. 61 St. John Paul II, General Audience “Deacons Serve the Kingdom of God” (October 5, 1993), no. 6. 62 ADUS. 63 NSD (1996) reports that 97 percent of all deacons in the United States are married (2). 64 See paragraph 178 in this text regarding those who are in a mixed marriage or a non sacramental marriage. 65 DMLPD, no. 61. 66 DMLPD, no. 61. 67 ADUS. 68 ADUS, no. 5. 69 PDV, no. 50, italics original. 70 DMLPD, no. 60. 71 LG, no. 42. 72 LG, no, 42; see Roman Pontifical, Rite of Ordination of Deacons, no. 199, in Rites of Ordination of a Bishop, of Priests, and of Deacons,Third Typical Edition (2010). 73 PDV, no. 50.

74 DMLPD, no. 62. 75 DMLPD, no. 62.